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Enter for a Chance to Win a Royal Baby Kit from Toft Alpaca

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royal baby collection toft alpacaBritish knitwear and fiber company Toft Alpaca has an adorable new line of knitting patterns celebrating the upcoming royal baby. The line includes knit and crocheted crowns and a jump suit, jumper and tank all featuring crowns on the front. They’re the perfect thing for any baby you’d like to treat like royalty.

Toft is celebrating the royal baby with us by giving away two of the jumper kits to Craft Gossip readers who subscribe to their newsletter.

You must click on that link and go subscribe to the newsletter to be entered, but I’d love it if you also commented here to let us know that you entered. Maybe you could share your favorite baby name that you never got to use on a person (mine’s Owen, but that doesn’t sound very royal, does it?). Edited to add: This is for UK residents only; sorry for any confusion!

The contest runs through the end of the month, and winners will be chosen July 1. Good luck!

[Photo via Toft Alpaca.]

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  1. I subscribed. My favorite has always been William with Liam as a nickname but BOTH have been in the top 10 boy names the last couple years. These days I’ve been leaning towards Arthur or Geoffrey.

  2. Hello,

    What lovely knitted baby items. I have subscribed to the newsletter. The name we never got to use was Andrew.

    Happy days.
    Bev.

  4. These are sooooo cute! I signed up for their newsletter. I wanted to name my son Ian, but it wasn’t my DH’s favorite name. We compromised on another name, Jesse, perhaps my second favorite. He did let me use Ian as his middle name, happily. Alas, my son doesn’t like his name. Sigh.

  7. Subscribed-I absolutely love what Toft do. As an alpaca lover, I hope to do what they do one day! Love the names Maisie (my daughter’s name), Penny and Toby

  8. Love all your patterns and wool. Have subscribed. My favourite name is William, maybe I’ll get to use it one day.

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Stitch a Scarf with Dreamy Waves

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells,  so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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