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Giveaway: 25+ Potholders to Knit

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25+ Potholders to Knit review

Our winner is inspired4eternity.

If you love knitting for your kitchen, you’re going to like this week’s giveaway. I have a copy of 25+ Potholders to Knit this week, which is a really fun book, which has a great variety of projects you can knit as potholders or dishcloths.

The projects are great for a variety of skill levels, and they’re super useful. Great for housewarming presents or other gifts, they’re pretty quick to work up and will use up your stash of 100 % cotton yarn in no time. They’re great projects for summer because they are portable, often repetitive, small and use cotton yarn for coolness.

If you’d like a chance to win this one, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, April 24. I’d love to know if you’ve knit potholders or dishcloths before — feel free to share a favorite pattern if you like!

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

Comments

  2. I have knit potholders before.
    My mother loves the ones I have made her that she uses a few until they fall apart and then uses the others that she has set aside. The ones I have made seem to be her favorite.

  3. I just moved into a new home, w/ new kitchen colors, so I’m eager to furnish it w/ new knitted potholders, cloths, etc. Perfect looking prize – thanks for the chance!

  5. Love knitting wash cloths and pot holders, they are my go to when don’t know what to make and I am itching for a project.

  7. Never knit a potholder before. This would be such fun to teach grandchildren and neighborhood children. A gift that keeps on giving 🙂

  8. I like the idea of making pot holders, They are quick and can be colorful. Making them would also be a neat way of learning new stitches.

  10. I have knit lots of dishcloths, but only one potholder. I like the idea of knitting more of them. I would love to win this book. Thanks for the giveaway!

  11. I love to make potholders and dish cloths for little gifts for my friends. Some new patterns would be so fun.

  18. I have knit a few dishcloths and washcloths.
    I’d love to try potholders.
    Great to add to a hostess or shower gift.

  19. Knitting dishcloths is one of my favorite “on the go” projects. I spend a lot of time in doctors’ waiting rooms with my Mom, and dishcloths are a perfect size for taking along. I’ve wanted to start potholders sometime soon.

  20. I’ve knit quite a few dishcloths, but no potholders yet! Would love to try some new patterns, inspired by this great book!
    Thanks, KIm Reid

  21. Fun! Would love to win this book. I’ve seen quilted potholders, but I’ve never knit one. I usually make hats & scarves with the yarn; would be great to try something new. Thanks!

  22. I like to knit dishcloths and washcloths in the summer – when I find it too hot to knit anything bulky!

  25. I have knit a few potholders/dishcloths, mainly using the traditional garter stitch bias square pattern.

  26. I enjoy knitting dishcloths. They make great little gifts and are a good way to practice new stitches.

  27. In between knitting prayer shawls & prayer lap robes (men prefer that term), I knit dishcloths as my small projects.

  28. I’ve knit dishcloths before, but not potholders yet! Only recently found out acrylic shouldn’t really be used haha — oops! These look like fun; thanks for the chance. 😀

  29. I like to knit dishcloths in the car while traveling so potholders would be a welcome addition. They would make quick and easy gifts too!

  30. I would live to win the knit book. I have a s. Center they make things and put it n a basket to sell. This helps with some of their projects. We have a group on Wed. To work on crafts. Etc…
    This book would help us a lot. Thanks

Have you read?

Learn a Flower Bobble Technique to Knit a Fun Shawl

Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier. 

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project. 

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible. 

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge. 

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects. 

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy. 

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project. 

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Xandy Peters]