Would love to knit a lovely lush scarf for a friend for Christmas...

[michaelad]

..must be really soft and preferably in dark red - oxbloodish colour..

..problem is I have never knitted in my life!

How do I go about it?

I started a thread like this today!

Im going to ask my DPs nana to teach me!

I really recommend this book, instructions are really clear and simple.

I've tried loads of ways to learn to knit and honestly, this is the only one that's worked!

If you can get to a branch of John Lewis, they often have in-store classes where you can learn to knit.

Which town are you from? I can probably tell you if you have a yarn shop nearby who may also be able to teach you how to knit.

I'm near Chelmsford, Purlyqueen
Rosmerta, have added this book to my mental wishlist!!

hi all yo need to do is find a lady of 60 they all know how to knit then get her to teach you to cast on and how to do knit and purl then knit to your hearts content

wil you warn knitting is extremely addictive rather like mnet

I don't know if you are near Maldon, but there is a shop there called Peachey Ethknits homepages.force9.net/ethknits/frames/frame.htm
They may be able to help you

oh, we do go to Maldon quite a lot actually! Excellent - will have a look!

A friend of mine makes special trips out there from Hackney to shop there - so they must be pretty good .