Make Lucy your new knitting companion. This DVD series will help you to make friends with your stitches and enhance your knitting expertise. Here are skills that knitters should never leave home without. Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) begins with this Knitting Essentials 1. It contains knitter's-eye-view shots, accompanied by Lucy's informal commentary and unique teaching methods on how to master techniques, why you might wish to use them and what exactly is going on. Control your cast-ons, try innovative bind-off methods, make increases and decreases in more than one way, apply finishing basics, pick up tips on reading your knitting and discover the hidden secrets of contented stitches. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, best selling author of "At Knit's End", "Yarn Harlot" and "Knitting Rules!" writes, "These are brilliant. Chock full of reassuring common sense and clever short cuts, "A Knitter's Companion is what every knitter has always wanted, Lucy Neatby, warm, intelligent and funny, now forced to live in your living room." bind offs, cast ons, increases, decreases, finishing basics, useful miscellanea, odds and knitting in ends, rescue remedies, gauge matters, the contented stitch.