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Announcing…New Yarns and Free Patterns From Nashua Handknits.

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doll1Nashua Handknits announces two new yarns for Spring 2009:
Creative FocusTM Silk: We are very excited about our 100% bourette silk in a bright palette of fifteen shades. Creative FocusTM Silk knits at 5 sts to the inch with each 50 gram ball containing 120 yards. This yarn has a wonderful hand and shows textures beautifully! A medium sized short sleeve stockinette stitch garment uses approximately 7 to 8 skeins. Creative FocusTM Silk has its own dedicated pattern book with 8 designs for women.Our new web site gives all the necessary details on each design in the book (color used, number of skeins required, finished bust measurements) to plan your next project.doll2
 
Daylily: With two tonally spaced-dyed strands, one matte and the other shiny, twisted together, Daylily glows with color and knits up at 4 sts to the inch. Perfect for easy, quick to knit garments, a medium sized short sleeve stockinette stitch garment uses approximately 9 to 10 skeins. Daylily has a dedicated pattern booklet containing 10 designs for women.
 
Here are two quick and easy doll sweaters (to fit an 18” doll) knit in our new spring yarns.
Go to http://www.nashuaknits.com/Patterns/tabid/174/Default.aspx to download these free patterns.

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  1. hi!
    the link to the nashua free 18″ doll patterns isn’t working. can you check it to see why it isn’t? lorna

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

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.