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Amazing Knit Characters from The Hobbit

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I love to see the amazing things that people come up with to knit. I generally stick to wearables, and have only participated in one yarn bombing, but I love it when people just go all out to celebrate something they love in knits.

Case in point: Denise Salway, a 50-year-old Welsh stitcher who has taken up knitting a hoard of characters from The Hobbit. She says she learned to knit in school and put down her needles for decades until her daughter asked her to knit favors for her wedding.

Once that colossal project was done, she turned to knitting dwarves, Gandalf, Bilbo and Smaug, who is stunning. There’s even a knit Peter Jackson complete with camera.

Even more amazing, she doesn’t work from patterns and has just been designing in her head, though she says she has started writing some patterns down. Somebody needs to get this lady a book deal!

[Photo from Wales News Service Ltd., via the Daily Mirror.]

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  1. Really glad you like my designs I made of the hobbits. Thanks for posting me on your site, hello everyone

  2. I just found this article ,many thanks for taking the time and say such lovely things to my designs best wishes to you all ????

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.