When I was young, I learned to knit. I had several teachers. I actually knit a baby onesy for my daughter. Everything this book helps you with, I did backwards. I checked my gauge. The finished outfit was way too big. I had a pattern from a magazine that I lost half way through. I had to ask my mother for a copy from her magazine, and was properly grateful she still had it. I turned the outfit into leggings that my daughter wore until she was three or four.