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Giveaway: 3 Leisure Arts Pattern Stitch Booklets

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Congratulations to Teresa!

I’m a sucker for a good pattern stitch dictionary, and I’ve got way more of them on my shelves than you’d expect for a person who sticks to basic stitch patterns most of the time.

But these books can be a lot of fun for inspiration, and this week I’ve got three little booklets by Rita Weiss from Leisure Arts and the Creative Partners, LLC, that are sure to inspire some swatching and fun knitting projects.

One winner will receive a copy of each of these three books:

Each book offers big pictures and written instructions for each stitch pattern. Each pattern takes up a full page (or more, with some) so you get a good look at how the stitch pattern looks over several repeats.

These would be great as blocks for a throw or to make a full afghan, or incorporate them into other projects.

If you’d like a chance to win these, leave a comment on this post by the end of the day Sunday, September 28. I’d love to hear how you incorporate different stitch patterns into your knitting projects, or if you’re a stitch pattern book hoarder like I am!

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

Comments

  6. I’m always looking for new stitches and this would be a great addition for me. Thank You for a Great Give-a-Way

  9. I would love to win your stitches booklets. I’m knitting socks like a crazy woman and have been incorporating a variety of stitches in the pattern.

  12. I have knit an Irish sweater for my sister after she was a year out of her cancer treatment. She picked the pattern she wanted and the yarn and I knit it though I had not at the at time ever done cables. It took some time but it turned out OK.

  13. I’ve only ever done just basic knitting, so learning so many new stitches would be a great thing! Thanks so much for giving us a chance to win them!!! 🙂

  14. I can only do basic knitting. My mom is actually the knitter in my family but I am the knitting pattern maker (she gives me a drawing or book or idea, I draw it out on graph paper).

  16. I also am a stitch pattern book hoarder. I would love to add these three to my collection!

    JKnits51 on Ravelry

  19. I love trying out new stitch patterns on socks and washcloths, that way you have something to use or gift at the end.

  21. Oh WOW! These books are EXACTLY what I need! I have been “hoarding” printed out pages of stitches for such a long time and I can never find the one I need when I am working on a project! Last week, while designing an afghan for my mother, I needed a lace pattern and I must have printed out twenty pages before I found just the right stitch needed to finish the project- it took me hours of combing the internet! These books wouldn’t just be an addition to my library, they would be a STAPLE of my everyday knitting!

  22. I love to try different stitch idea’s and these would be fun to work with. Also I like to teach others how to knit so I could use these to help out there. Thanks for the chance to win.

  24. I definitely enjoy and use stitch dictionaries like this, and these books look really wonderful. I like to use them to find designs to either add something to what I’m knitting, or replace a design already in a pattern with something else.

    Thanks for another great giveaway!!

  29. I love stitch pattern books! They are so inspirational! I’m actually surprised I don’t have any of these!

  32. I think of myself as a new knitter, but it has been a couple of years so I should expand my comfort zone, these books would help.

  33. Right now I’m a hoarder! I have known how to knit for years but I’m still at a pretty basic level, just now venturing into more difficult knitting such as lace. Having some stitch books would be really helpful in branching out. I can envision learning swatches being turned into an afghan! 🙂

  34. If I had these books I could save the lives of several trees! I am constantly printing out new stitch patterns to try, and am going through way too much paper! I am always intrigued by new ones, and these books would help me keep them in order.

  38. I’m knitting afghans for 9 of my nieces and nephews for Christmas. This would give me some new ideas. Thank you!!!

  41. Would love to own the Aran stitch book. It would build my knitting skills to the next level. Thank you for a change to win one of these great books..

  42. I’ve been wanting to try to design something knitted and stitch pattern dictionaries would be a lot of help!

  43. I incorporate stitch patterns into scarfs – blank slate to begin with and easy to just add edge stiches to the width you want.

  45. I collect a lot of patterns but often the stitches contained within do not seem to fit that is when I go to a stitch directory online it would be wonderful to have my own directories

  46. Wow! How nice that you are giving these books as a prize.
    I’m a leftie and need books with illustrations to help me with patterns. Thank you.

  47. Actually, I’d probably give them to my friend April, who is much more into knitting than I am – I’m more of a crochet queen. She churns out the most beautiful big cuddly afghans. Of course, I’d learn a couple of stitches. I like to keep my needle-hands limber.

  48. Wow…those booklets look great!
    I love and hoard any new stitches I come across. So many ideas.fir projects…
    Thanks for the chance to win.

  50. I like making dishcloths or potholders out of different stitches. I learn the stitch and gain something that can be used in the kitchen at the same time.

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]