Free Ebook with Charity Knitting Patterns

If you like to knit for charity or just like simple, cute patterns to knit for gifts, the Knitting Daily free ebook Knitting for Charity is something you ought to check out.

The ebook has five patterns — for an earflap hat if various sizes, knit toys, a baby hat, a little shawl and a garter stitch baby blanket — all of which are perfect little projects for comfort and warmth.

Knit up some blankets for the local hospital, donate hats to the homeless, or knit prayer shawls for cancer patients.

This ebook is available for free to members of the Knitting Daily community, which is free to join and includes a daily email about knitting.

Do you like to knit for charity? I’d love to hear what you make!

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Specific to knitters, you can join our Knitting Patterns Only group to get, well, knitting patterns, ask questions and gain inspiration for what to knit next.

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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.

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KATHRYN M Horn says
November 27, 2018 at 4:29 am
I lead a group of women, open to anyone, that create complete sets of cocoon, hat, sweater, booties, and some make mitts for the newborn babies at 2 hospitals in our area. I’m always looking for good patterns that go quickly to meat our need of up to 90 babies a month.

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