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Boxer Press Audio and KnitPicks.com Entertain Craftsters with Free Holiday Audio

The knitting up of an elaborate stocking brings an amorous ghost to West Hill along with a most unusual proposal, an intrepid thief, and more than a few second chances this December. Boxer Press Audio and internet yarn retailer KnitPicks.com team up to offer Miss Eiderdowns Stocking as a free MP3 download in two parts.

 Part One Release: Live December 4th, 2009, 9am Pacific Time  http://media.libsyn.com/media/knitpicks/Eiderdown1.mp3

 Part Two Release: December 12th, 2009, 9am Pacific Time  http://media.libsyn.com/media/knitpicks/Eiderdown2.mp3

Every craftsperson has a dream project. Miss Lillian Eiderdowns just happens to be a holiday stocking as elaborate as her imagination can make it. When her partner in Entwhistle-Eiderdown Wools dies, Lillian closes the shop and sets her needles to work. Will the knitting up lead her to a new beginning or is this knitter destined to never bind-off?  

Everyone stresses during the holiday make-athon, so why not have someone read you a yarn about second chances? asks Kate Godfrey, writer/producer of Boxer Press Audio. We love the crafts community as much as the folks at Knit Picks do so we were delighted when they agreed to partner with us to tell Miss Eiderdowns story. May this audio gift make the season a merrier one for everyone rushing to finish one more last minute gift.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.