This course will teach you all the basics of good handknitting skills. The lessons should be read in the order given, particularly if you are a new knitter.

1. Why Learn to Knit?
2. Beginner's Knitting Tools - you do not need a lot of tools to begin to learn to knit! Here are the items I consider necessary for a beginner taking his or her first steps in learning knitting.
3. Different Types of Knitting Needles
4. How to wind a skein of yarn into a ball
5. How to make a slip knot to start your knitting
6. How to do the Two Needle Cabled Cast On
7. How to make a Knit Stitch
8. How to make a Purl Stitch
9. Creating a Knitted Selvedge
10. How to cast off your knitting
11. How to thread a Yarn Needle
12. How to darn yarn ends into your knitting
13. Comparing and Contrasting Garter Stitch and Stocking Stitch
14. How to knit a Tension Square
15. Basic Equipment for the Knitter's Workbasket
16. Reverse Stocking Stitch
17. How to join on a new length of yarn
18. How to decrease with Knit 2 Together
19. How to decrease with Purl 2 together
20. How to knit and purl into the back of a stitch
21. How to work SSK and SKPO
22. How to use Stitch Markers in your knitting
23. How to fix dropped stitches in knitting
24. How to increase a single stitch in your knitting

This excellent reference book has masses of information about knitting techniques. It illustrates all the basic techniques and has a huge range of different ways to cast on and off and increase and decrease. A must for any knitter's bookcase!

This is another very good book which contains reference information on all the basics of how to knit and finish off a garment or item.