I’ve tried to learn how to knit before and it didn’t go very well. Can you recommend any YouTube videos? Or any ‘knitting for dummies’ sites?

[FatAndFiftySomething]

I am determined to learn.

Try crochet. My Nanny was adament you can only do one or the other. 😁

Funnily enough there is a book called Knitting for Dummies, and I found it very useful as a starting point when I was first trying to re-learn as an adult.

For videos, VeryPink has a good playlist of slow motion techniques:

And also a tutorial to make a dishcloth, which is a great place to start:

I'm sorry to say your Nsnny was wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

@FatAndFiftySomething

youtube. Watch a few and see who you click with!!

I learnt to crochet that way (play/rewind/play/rewind.....)

best of luck! It's really not tricky to do basic knitting once you get going 😊

This looks really helpful, thanks!

I’ve tried that as well, it was even more of a disaster 🤨.

I’d like to eventually do the Winwick Mum socks.

I like Knit with Hannah - https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCghk2kbS6UQp_EixUo9Fqdw

Oh I'm glad to see this - I was going to give her series a go. I'm just trying to finish off a quilt and then I want to start to learn to knit properly.

OP I learned the basics as a child and can just about turn out scarves and on one notable occasion an actual beret. I have basically quilted everyone I know so I need a new textile hobby. We should have a support thread!