This assumes you know how to knit and purl but doesn't assume much beyond that. If it's something to remind you about some skills and get you going knitting a few items to remind you how it works and trying out a few new techniques along the way then this is the book for you. It's a half step above a beginner book, for an intermediate beginner, someone comfortable with the basic concepts but wanting to stretch a little. The illustrations are clear and easy to follow.
The projects are:
Heart's Content Scarf - knitting a bias scarf. Good and basi
Sugar Run Skirt - Provisional cast-on and knitting the casting - not my sort of thing but overall a good project
Twin Lakes Cover-up and Hat- Lace and ruffles, a baby coverup and a little too twee for me
Lantz Corners Shawl - moving from double pointed to circular and twiceworked bind off. Not a bad project or skill use, A square shawl that could also be a tablecloth
Tracy Ridge Hat - Reading graphs, a hat that doubles up as a cowl though there are no shots of it as a cowl.
Beaver meadows Felted purse - mitred rectangle bottom, embelishment, handle and edging - interesting bag and different handle, this is the coverproject.
Big Rock Socks - Stranded colour knitting, longish fairly bulky socks
Tionesta Lake Throw - swatching for texture and colour, use up some of that stash stuff
Watson Crossing Sweater - flawless necklines with ANNA (Armhole Neck Neck Armhole order of decreases) ruffle edged cardigan
Saybrook Neck warmer and wrist warmer - knitting with beads a bulky set with cables (the pictures are in a variagated yarn that mostly loses the texture of the piece) the bead knitting is the crochet hook method.
overall not a bad book for someone looking to expand their horizons.
