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Be A Fearless Knitter

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Be fearless and knit with confidence!

A workbook for the hands and minds of knitters, the Fearless Knitting Workbook will:

  • Develop your skills and deepen your understanding of how yarn becomes fabric
  • Lead you over common obstacles that makes knitting seem difficult through gentle, targeted exercises and extensive explanations broken down into layman’s terms
  • Give you the confidence to fearlessly approach any knitting pattern you might otherwise think was beyond your abilities and gain a sense of mastery to knit any commercial pattern you wish
  • And more!

Fearless Knitting Workbook offers classically designed swatch exercises in specific technical areas, such as knit and purl patterns, cables, shaping, and lace. By introducing the basic stitch movements, vocabulary, charts, and knitting math for each exercise, you are more likely to be successful. Plus, the exercise swatches you will create with this workbook can be used as washcloths or combined to create pillow covers, throws, or scarves.

Throughout Fearless Knitting Workbook, the key emphasis is on teaching you how to read your knitting as well as the written instructions, and on explaining why things are done the way they are done in successful knitting. At the same time, the book encourages you to try your hand at any pattern your hands desire, regardless of your skill level.

From Interweave Knits, here: http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Books/Fearless-Knitting-Workbook.html

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Comments

  1. I really have to investigate this book. I’ve got a sweater on the needles which I’ve just become paralyzed over. It’s my own design, incorporationg sever new-to-me techniques. I’m over ahlfway done with the body, but I find I’m having to make so many changes from the original plan that I’m just not wanting to touch it. And it’s time to Knit or get off the pot because I’ll be seeing the recipient of this gift nest week and perhps not again before Christmas.

  2. I just ordered this book as well. I am a advanced beginner knitter and really think it will be so helpful to understand more of the technical aspect of knitting. This will help me gain the courage hopefully to tackle more challenging patterns.

Have you read?

Stitch Your Favorite Fruit on a Sweater

The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.” 

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them. 

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits. 

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves. 

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit. 

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy. 

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]