Christine Boggis is the editor of Knitting magazineand author of JOMO Knits: 21 Projects to Celebrate the Joy of Missing Out. She worked as a journalist in Sussex, Vienna and London before joining Knitting, where she writes about knitting all day long then rushes home to spend the evening... knitting. When she's not knitting, Christine reads and occasionally dabbles in cooking, sewing, quilting, upcycling, running and Zumba.

Christine lives in Brighton, in the south of England.

Table of contents:

6 Introduction

8 Tools of the trade

10 Fibre of life

BEGINNER

14 The wellness lowdown: why knitting is good for you

16 Technique: long tail cast on

17 Technique: knitted on cast on

18 Technique: the knit stitch

19 Technique: casting off

20 Easy Does It Capelet

22 Technique: the purl stitch

23 Technique: knitting through the back loop

24 Technique: knitting in the round

25 Technique: jogless join

26 Beginner Cowl

28 Technique: make one increases

29 Technique: decreasing

30 Technique: tassels

32 Mountain Shawl

34 Technique: simple cables

34 Cosy Ruana

38 Bedtime Wrap

42 Mind over knitter: knitting and meditation

44 Technique: yarn over increases and using stitch markers

45 Technique: garter tab cast on and picot cast off

46 In Flight Shawl

50 Sunshine Shawlette

53 Technique: blocking

54 Love Triangle Shawl

58 Technique: embroidering on knitting

59 Rainbow Shawl

INTERMEDIATE

64 Knitting to treat yourself

66 Sparkle and Shine Cowl

70 Technique: diluted garter stitch stripes

71 Technique: picking up stitches and holding yarn double

72 Skyfall Shawl

76 Bundled Neck Warmer

78 Journey Shawl

82 Unwind Shawl

86 Afterglow Wrap

90 Giving is living: the joys and sorrows of knitting for others

92 Technique: reading charts

94 Wedding Wrap

98 Technique: elongated stitches

99 Seafoam Shawlette

102 Technique: sewing up and finishing

103 Technique: one colour brioche

104 Wrapped Up Cowl

106 Technique: two-colour brioche

108 Elemental Wrap

110 Shades of Grey Shawl

114 Technique: stranded colourwork

115 Lakes and Mountains Shawl

118 Technique: slip stitch colourwork

119 Harvest Home Cowl

ADVANCED

124 Shopaholics: how and where to buy yarn

126 Cuddle Wrap

128 Hap-piness

132 True Colours Shawlette

136 Technique: increasing and decreasing in brioche

138 Autumn Leaves Shawl

144 Knitting and perfectionism

INFORMATION

146 Abbreviations

147 Conversions

148 Technique finder and suppliers

149 About the author and acknowledgements

150 Index