Kids learn to knit

If you’ve got kids aged between six and nine years, they’d love to join Bob the wolf and his two talkative friends, Peg and Pip the mice, in learning how to knit. Kids learn to knit is fun, colourful and superbly entertaining! Even big kids (yes, adults) can take a page or two out of this one.

Published by Metz Press, the book introduces knitting in a fun, education way. It teaches basic knitting techniques including casting on, casting off, producing a slip knot and a knot stitch. All kids really need is wool and a pair of knitting needles to get started.

Once the basics are out of the way, your kids can move on to one of the six exciting step-by-step projects, all with their own charts and templates. What makes this a real page-turner is all the quaint illustrations, complete with commentary from Bob, Peg and Pip of course.

Towards the back of the book, there’s also a useful section tackling the likely event of things going wrong – holes in your knitting, dropped stitches, and running out of wool for example. There’s also a “how to” section where you can pick up on more techniques like stitching seams, sewing on buttons and stitching on felt shapes.

Makes a fantastic gift, guaranteed to bring hours of fun!

Reviewed by Cara Visser

Published by Metz Press