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A Bunch of Little Booklets

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This week the closet-cleaning giveaways continue with four little Leisure Arts booklets:

Two-Hour Neckwear by Marly Bird: 12 projects for scarves and cowls to knit in a jiffy

Chunky Winter Knits: a Lion Brand book with 13 projects using Wool-Ease Thick & Quick

Quick and Easy Mittens by Mary Lamb Becker: has a basic pattern with 9 sizing options and color variations to knit or Knook

Cool-Weather Family Fashions: this booklet is full of projects using Bernat Softee Chunky and has nine accessory patterns

If you’d like me to send these to you, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, July 9. I’d love to know what you’re knitting right now. (Me: a sock and a blanket.)

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  1. I would love these! I am working on my husbands sweater, a cabled cape for myself and I am starting a class for a fisherman’s knit scarf.????

  2. I am between projects but am about to start on toddler jackets for autumn. Thanks for the giveaway chance

  6. I’m currently knitting baby clothes to sell on behalf of my local hospice.

  7. Yes, is like these booklets. My knitting guild is making mittens for a public Christmas tree. When the tree comes down, they will be donated to charity.

  8. I’ve been in baby gift overload. Finally a girl. I was getting a little frustrated with every single friend having boys. Bring on the frills

  9. I have a lot of yarn and I love to have new ideas to make with it! These books would help me to have more gift ready for all occasions. Thank you

  10. Hi, I would love to receive those booklets! Right now, I have started a summery Cowl in a light pink silk I got on sale.

  11. Thank you for the chance to win these little books! I am currently working on a pair of throw pillows with deer designs on them for a housewarming gift.

  12. Right now I am making little hats for the NICU. This is always a fun project to work on. Our little group makes scares, hats and mittens for charity. We could use some fast and easy patterns.

  14. Right now I am getting ready to make a hope chest full of kitchen things for my four grandkids

  15. My sister is the knitter in the family, though I’ve been playing with my Knook a little. These would be lovely as a gift for her for her birthday and/or Giftmas.

  17. Ohh, awesome!
    I’m finishing a shrug today (finally!), and I’m still working on a sleeping bag for a friend’s baby and a couple of Mario and Luigi hats for a gamer friend 😉

Have you read?

Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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