Knitting

Patterns, projects and techniques

Get Tons of Ideas for Sweet Baby Blankets

, by . 1 Comment

60 More Quick Baby Blankets reviewBaby blankets are my go-to for baby gift knitting. You don’t have to worry about a baby being too big or too small to use them, and parents can always use another blanket, no matter what climate they live in or season in which they were born.

60 More Quick Baby Blankets, one in the long series of 60 Quick books, includes a bunch of great options for knitters of all skill levels. Looking for more Baby Knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

Even better, the patterns all use either 128 superwash or 220 superwash from Cascade Yarns, which are both great options for baby knitting because they come in tons of colors, are a great value and are machine washable. What could be better?

It’s hard to really cover a book with 60 patterns in it in just a few words, but the odds are good if you like knitting baby blankets you’re going to find some things you want to knit here. (You can check out all the projects on Ravelry.)

I will say, however, that this book is so cute even my husband found himself rifling through it (he recommended the Covered in Cables pattern by Katherine Hunt as one that would look great in a throw size in our living room).

There are cables, lace and colorwork galore, including patterns using whales, a ladybug, a fox and sheep (of course). There are large-scale patterns in houndstooth, checkerboard, chevron, pinwheel and X and O patterns, simple Garter Stitch stripes, honeycomb patterns,a southwest motif, a stitched rainbow and more.

It’s a really cute book and perfect for anyone who knits baby blankets for charity, or who has a lot of grandkids or friend who are having babies.

If you take a peek I’d love to know which patterns catch your eye!

About the book: 184 pages, paperback with interior flaps, 60 patterns. Published October 2017 by Sixth & Spring Books. Retail price $17.95.

Next Pattern:

Comments

  1. Baby Ladybug, Buttercups, Eyelet Rhombus, Tumbling Blocks, Yahoo Kangaroo just to name a few. I see what you mean, Sarah. So many too cute.

Have you read?

Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

[Photo: Olive Knits.]

Leave a Reply