Knitting With Gigi - Hardcover

Thalacker, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564777588 ISBN 13: 9781564777584

Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Take your first knitting adventure with a girl who's cool, hip, and loves to knit---GIGI! Join Gigi as she shows you how to knit, step-by-step. The fun poems, colorful illustrations, and easy projects will get you started today!

* Gigi's spunky "You can do it!" approach will get you knitting like a pro

* Knit eight fun projects, including a funky hat, a cool bag, and a pretty scarf

* Watch family and friends light up when you give them something you've knitted yourself

About this title

About the Author:

About the Author/Illustrator Home: Waverly, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington In addition to being a knitter and a mom, Karen Thalacker is a lawyer and an adjunct professor at Wartburg College. Mindy Dwyer specializes in watercolor and is the author and illustrator of many children's books.

Review:

Knitting with Gigi is an awesome kid's book for any child (or adult!) who wants to learn to knit. There are good instructions and wonderful illustrations to help learn the basic cast-on (starting), knit stitch, decreasing (making it a different shape), and bind-off (ending). Some knitting books are very difficult to learn how to knit from, but the instructions in Knitting with Gigi are very clear. Eight kid-friendly projects make up the second half of the book, all of them easy to follow and perfect for a beginner.

Gigi also has a website where kids can join the "Gigi's kindness corps" and knit for those in need. Her website also includes videos of instructions to get to "the next step" so to speak. The videos explain the purl stitch, different cast-on methods, and techniques of finishing. By the time a young knitter has finished the projects in the book and watched and learned the information in the videos, they will be ready to go further into the knitting world.

I want to point out a wonderful thing that Gigi (who speaks in verse) has said: "Practice makes perfect will never apply. We all make mistakes, no matter how hard we try. So be of good cheer and do not despair. With time and some care you'll have something to wear." Every young knitter should hear this--and experienced ones, too!

Recommendation: boys and girls ages 6+. Adults could learn to knit with their kids with this book too! --Haleyknitz

About this edition

• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1564777588
• ISBN 13: 9781564777584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Dwyer Mindy