Beautiful Baby Blankets to Knit

Honey Bee Bears, a designer on Etsy, has more than 40 years of knitting experience and has been designing for 12 years.

They specialize in baby blankets with lots of textured stitches and lace. They are based in England, and you can find their Etsy store here.

The pictured blanket is the Primrose baby blanket pattern, but there are so many cute ones it will be hard for you to choose the one you want to knit!

Looking for more information on knitting baby blankets? A couple of books I like are Knitted Baby Blankets and Cuddle Bags by Marta Skadsheim Torkildsen and 60 More Quick Baby Blankets (these patterns are all worked with Cascade 128 and Cascade 220 yarns, so they stitch up super fast compared to baby blankets worked on finer yarn). And of course our easy baby knits ebook includes a fun blanket pattern, too.

If you’d rather go your own way with blanket design, check out these awesome tips for knitting a baby blanket in any yarn and size you like.

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I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]

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