Knitting

The Basics aka Learn to Knit!

http://www.knittinghelp.com/ - This is the most awesome site. You honestly don't even need any others until you start doing some fancier stuff and even then she has most of that stuff covered. Simple instructions with videos that actually work!

Patterns Galore!

http://www.knitty.com - Online knitting magazine, everyone's favorite because it's not just old lady stuff!

http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/ - Tons of links to patterns!

http://www.lionbrand.com/content-kn...tternIndex.html - You have to register to access these patterns, but they're still free.

http://knitting.about.com/ - The patterns here are more old lady, but there's a lot of help on here too. I personally love old lady patterns because I'm a bitter crone at heart so it doesn't bother me.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/b...ml#BABYsweaters - All kinds of baby poo poo. Some of it is really, really ugly. Knit and crochet patterns.

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm - This is really cool! It's a bunch of antique knitting and crochet patterns. ALL THAT LACE

Knitting Communities

http://www.stitchnbitch.org/snb_groups.htm - List of knitting groups that meet IRL around the globe! There's also a fun series of books about knitting (and even one about crochet!) under the same name. P.S. we should start goon SnB meetings.

http://community.livejournal.com/punk_knitters/ - LJ knitting community, very inspiring because everyone always makes fun stuff and reminds me not to be a lazy rear end.

http://community.livejournal.com/20sknitters/ - Another fun LJ knitting community.

http://apps.facebook.com/stitchbook/ - A decent Facebook community, mostly links to knitty stuff it seems. It's not just about knit, there's a large database of crochet patterns too.