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.

When I discovered Kate Atherley’s book Circular Knitting for Beginners and Beyond, I wasn’t sure there was enough to say about circular knitting to fill a book. It’s a pretty short book (144 pages) and includes 10 patterns to practice working in the round on small projects, and it provides a decent introduction to the various ways of working in the round.

The book covers using double pointed knitting needles, flexible double points and circular knitting needles with cables. It talks about working using the full circumference of a circular needle and various ways to work smaller circumference projects, such as using DPNs, magic loop and knitting with two circular knitting needles.

In addition there’s a discussion of preventing problems like twists and ladders, swatching in the round without actually swatching in the round, grafting, blocking and weaving in ends.

More specialized techniques likes knitting from the center out, stranded colorwork, helical knitting and jogless stripes are also explored, as well as working pieces like socks or mitts two at a time.

There’s also some information about seamless sweaters, including the different sweater designs that can be worked seamlessly (and why you might want seams in your sweaters) and how they are worked from the top down or the bottom up.

There are 10 patterns in the book, including a basic stockinette stitch cowl and one with a deliberate twist, wrist warmers, mitts and a pair of colorwork mittens, a hat worked in a solid color or in helical stripes, toe up and top down socks and a beret. It would have been nice to have a basic sweater pattern, too, since the book does talk about working larger garments with circular needles, but it’s still a nice collection of basic patterns worked in the round.

If you’re already comfortable working in the round in different ways, I’m not sure there’s much for you to learn in this book, but it is a good reference for people learning circular knitting or who maybe haven’t tried all the techniques yet or need skill building projects to try.

About the book: 144 pages, paperback, 10 patterns. Published 2026 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $24.99.

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