Book Review – Last-Minute Afghans Knit Pattern Book

Quick-to-knit afghans to take anywhere- in a variety of styles and colorways!

Made as smaller separate pieces that are joined together later, the knit patterns in Last-Minute Afghans are fun, fast and great for on-the-go knitting. From the bold and colorful patterns of “Flamboyant Poppies” to the seasonal changes of “Spring, Summer, Fall” — Last-Minute Afghans contains knit afghan patterns to please every style. Clear instructions and easy-to-follow charts; 36 all-color pgs.

This pattern book includes:

Patterns made in washable, affordable and easy-to-find yarns
Projects featuring bulky-weight yarn or 2 worsted-weight yarns held together
Knit designs including lace, intarsia, cables and more
Designs that easily adjust to any size

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Brioche knitting, also sometimes known as English rib, is a popular way to add a lot of texture to knitting projects. It can be a little intimidating when you’ve never done it before, but once you get the technique down it’s lots of fun to do. And it creates the squishiest, warmest fabric, so it’s great for fall and winter accessories like these.

Mirella Moments has a whole collection of English rib knitting patterns, including the hat pictured here, a headband and an infinity scarf.

These would be super as gifts to knit now and have on hand for the holidays. You can knit all three and give them to three different people, or gift them all to one person, or keep them for yourself. No one is judging here.

All of the projects use worsted weight yarn but they come out looking chunky because of the knitting technique, which involves yarn overs that are worked together with the next stitch on the next round so there’s not a visible hole, it just makes the fabric really stretchy.

You can practice working the stitch flat if you like, but it’s not any more difficult to do in the round. If you’ve never done it before you might want to start with the headband pattern here before moving on to a bigger project.

The hat and the headband both come in three sizes for adults (the small would probably work for a teen) and the infinity scarf is one size but you could adjust it to be bigger or smaller if you like.

These projects are so pretty and relatively easy to do, too, even if you’ve never worked brioche before.

You can find all the patterns, complete with photo tutorials, at Mirella Moments: hat | headband | infinity scarf.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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