Improve your knitting skills with free online tutorials.
Learning to knit or improving your knitting skills has never been easier. All you need is your Library card! You can use your Library card to take a Craftsy class and watch step-by-step instructions on a variety of creative crafts, such as baking, cake decorating, quilting, knitting, and more. Learn more about how to use the Craftsy craft tutorials.
Need help? Ask a Library staff member at any of our locations or call, text or email Ask-a-Librarian.
Get inspiration for improving your knitting skills.
If you need more evidence for the power of making, or something to read or listen to while you work, check out the following books on how creation can help bring meaning and purpose to our lives:
- A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working With Our Hands Gives Us Meaning by Eric Gorges
- Making A Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live by Melanie Falick
- Embrace your Weird: A Guided Journal for Facing your Fears and Unleashing Creativity By Felicia Day
Join us at an upcoming Library program.
Join one of our monthly knitting groups! We also offer arts and crafts classes and workshps throughout the year for kids, teens, and adults. See our full schedule of Arts and Crafts programs.
- Event: Fiber Arts Club at Lawrence
- Date & Time: Saturday, February 28, 10:30am
- Location: Lawrence Branch
- Description: Knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists of all kinds are welcome to join a monthly group of like-minded people who love to knit and crochet; no matter the level of proficiency or the age. Please register. Walk-ins welcome when space is available. We are not able to accommodate large groups.
- Register Here
- Event: Yarnslingers at College Avenue
- Date & Time: Saturday, February 28, 11:00am
- Location: College Avenue Branch
- Description: Knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists of all kinds are welcome to join monthly to meet, work on projects, share their recent creations, and discuss fiber arts. All skill levels are welcome.
- No Registration Required.
- Event: The Village: A Social Practice Art Session
- Date & Time: Monday, March 02, 11:00am
- Location: Warren Branch
- Description: Join others to create yarn pompoms that become part of a large-scale fiber art piece called The Village. This artwork will eventually be 24 feet wide and 8 feet high, and represents the best of Indianapolis Arts. It can’t be made without assistance from each other.
- No Registration Required.
Crafty Characters – Fiction About Knitting
Lacking the motivation to pick up the needles these days? Or are you an aspiring knitter looking for literary inspiration? These novels on knitting will keep you busy either way.
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Knitting My Way to Peace
I’ll be honest, I love to knit. I find it very soothing and relaxing. I enjoy tv more when my hands are busy. Knitting is easy to learn and The Library has lots of resources to help the neophyte and challenge the veteran knitter.
Needlework and Mysteries
Needlework of all kinds….sewing, knitting, crocheting, weaving and embroidery are featured in these first books of various mystery series.
Knitting!
Whether you are a beginning knitter or the nerdiest of needlers, the collection at the Indianapolis Public Library has materials for you. Check out our array of books, online resources, and DVDs that are sure to get your needles clicking and your yarn flying!
