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Knitting

Adel Kay - Author

Expect a hands-on guide to making useful and playful knitted objects, with instructions across a range of projects and a section on techniques and materials.

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"Learn how to make beautiful paper creations with this exciting new book on Knitting, part of the Craft Smart series from QED. Step by step instructions show you how to fashion a phone case, a beaded scarf and even a squishy penguin! Be the envy of all your friends as you whip up bags, hats and hand warmers to keep you cosy and stylish. Following on from the successful Art Smart series, Craft Smart presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewellery-making, papercrafting and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. Each project is graded with a difficulty rating of 1 to 5.

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Knitting· ExplainedStep-by-step instruction· ExplainedCreative experimentation· Explained

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Beyond the Cover

knittingstep-by-step instructioncreative experimentation

Non-fictionIllustrated book

Themes in Context

Learning by making

The guide moves through practical knitting projects and includes techniques and materials intended to support readers’ own ideas.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Its instructional structure presents knitting as a skill practised through projects, with scope to experiment beyond the given examples.

Talk about: Which instructions or techniques might help you adapt a project to your own idea?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Difficulty ratings can help you choose a project together, while the invitation to try personal ideas makes this more than a sequence of patterns to copy.

What Deserves Attention

Knitting involves following practical instructions and working through projects with different difficulty ratings; consider whether the reader would enjoy that kind of sustained making.

A Conversation Worth Having

Which kind of project would you most like to try, and would you prefer to follow a pattern closely or use the techniques to invent your own variation?

Reading Approach

Browse the project choices first, then pick one whose difficulty rating feels manageable. Gather its materials and work through the steps together, allowing room to practise.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Learning by making: The particular instructions, illustrations and degree of support for beginners are not described.

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: Learning by making

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