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Another Giveaway!! Knit To Be Square

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k2bsqUp next… Knit To Be Square by Vivian Hoxbro and Interweave.

Join the domino craze with Knit to Be Square! Vivian Høxbro shows you how to combine modular squares into blocks of varying sizes that become the base for a variety of eye-catching two- and three-dimensional projects. Combine these geometric patterns with felting and you get gorgeous results!

Now for the criteria…. you good knitters turned me on to a sock pattern that not only can I live with, but I actually really like! Yay! I’m a sock knitter now!

So, how about making me a lace knitter too! Tell me about your favorite lace patterns and why you like them!

Plus.. there will be a surprise in the box along with this book….

Comments

  3. Ooh, I’ve seen this book and I love it!

    Hmm, lace… haven’t had a chance to do much lace yet, but I absolutely am dying to try Kiwassa and Path of Flowers by Chrissy Gardiner. Oh, and anything by BadCatDesigns…..

  5. I like the pattern that is knit one or two rows and then the nest row knit with one or two extra wraps. The next row drop the extra wraps and just knit. I have used this quite a few times to make cover up for over a bathing suits.

  6. I enjoy trying different techniques- the modular or square knitting is intriguing. I like lace, as the yarnovers are impressive to others- but so simple! I want to knit a sampler of different patterns-probably with leftover bedspread cotton. Usually I use different yarns, but this would show up well…hmmm.

  7. Well I haven’t any favorite lace patterns YET but I did find out that I don’t remember where but knitters that had no access to knitting needles used piano wire to knit soft delecate lace.

  9. Anything from “Victorian Lace Today” is great – though probably not for a beginner.
    You can always start with a lace sock!

  10. The gorgeous lace shawl patterns from GoddessKnits.com are very well written and a heirloom for many generations forward. Please enter me in your great book giveaway, I want to try more modular knitting! Thanks, Kim

  11. I enjoy trying different techniques- the modular or square knitting is pretty neat. i love all the laces but have not tried any yet

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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.