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Giveaway: A Year’s Worth of Projects from Debbie Bliss

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Lennette is the winner.

I’m not quite ready to admit that a new year is almost upon us, but my brain has already started making plans for the clean slate that is 2016.

Of course, those plans include a lot of crafting, and a lot of knitting.

If you’d like to knit more in the next year, this week’s giveaway is for you. The Knitter’s Year by Debbie Bliss is full of 52 projects you can make in a week or so, to fill your year with gifts, seasonal knits and charity projects.

The book includes bags, pillows, socks, hats, gloves and scarves, as well as holiday decor like Christmas stockings, napkin rings and tree decorations. There’s a pumpkin pincushion for fall and flowerpot cozies for spring.

There’s a lot of fun stuff that would make sweet gifts for friends and new babies,a s well as things you’ll want to knit for yourself (always a good resolution). Check out all the projects on Ravelry.

If you’d like a chance to win this book, leave a comment on this post by the end of the day Sunday, December 27. I’d love to know if you have any knitting-related resolutions for the coming year.

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing and good luck!

Comments

  1. I would love to win this it is always nice to have fresh ideas and if I do win I promise to try to get hold of JoAnne Micon and share with her. Sounds like she needs some fresh ideas and a new friend to share them with.

  3. I plan to use sock yarn I bought several years ago and finally make some more socks for my daughter and myself.

  6. I like doing quick project (I think I have a short attention span!) so would love to try a new project each week. I really enjoy learning to do new things- creative variety keeps me motivated.

  7. It’s very reassuring to see so many other people resolving to use up their stash. Problem is that, usually, new projects need more than I have in my stash but this books seems to have smaller projects too. Win win!!!

  9. This year’s resolution is the same as the last so many years-make a dent in my WIPs. Oh but the temptation to start something new is difficult to overcome.

  11. I am a beginner who can’t seem to figure out how to pick up dropped stitches, so that would be my goal for next year.

  12. What a great prize! Thanks for giving me a chance to win!
    I’m hoping to keep growing with my knitting and continuing to create new patterns and try new concepts.

  15. This would be perfect for my niece, Ashley, who’s just started knitting . Thanks the chance to win.

  17. I’d love to win this, even though I have several sweaters I plan to knit, plus some other projects. Seems I want to make everything!

  18. I have really been having fun with a project always in process. I want to learn continental next –oh and how to fix problems without pulling out rows.

  19. My resolution is to continue to use up my stash. This book might give me some further ideas to do so. Thank you for the giveaway.

  22. I used to knit, and have a gorgeous stash of yarn. Then I had twins! But they are getting old enough, and in school long enough now that hopefully I can start back up.

  23. I want to continue to challenge myself with learning new techniques and just knit, knit, knit! And visit my local yarn store more often.

  24. Would love to win this book, I think it could help use odd balls of yarn which should be next years goal.

  25. My annual resolution is to reduce my stash. I continue to knit and I haven’t purchased “that” much yarn, yet my stash continues to grow. That being said, books aren’t stash, and books help with knitting inspiration.

  27. This year I plan to make myself a sweater – something I’ve never done. I tend to love small projects, so my goal is to have a large project. Thanks for the chance to win!

  28. I have no ambitious knitting projects for the coming year but, when I retire, I plan to knit a Dr. Who scarf.

  29. I do have a resolution I’d like to get more finished, now most of my projects are large so I want to break it down to get X% done each month that sort of thing. Some things to just get done by summer Ect. Not fully thought out but it’s a start!

  30. Ooh, a knitting New Year’s resolution! I would say I would resolve to make more time to knit for others; I knit way too much for just myself.

  31. New Year’s knitting resolution – knit from stash…. oh wait that was last year’s resolution and the year before and the year before! Maybe this year I’ll do better.

  35. I no longer make any kind of resolutions – it would just be adding to the list of ways I can disappoint myself. Besides, I have lots of leftover resolutions. For instance I still haven’t knit a litle cushion for my pet rock. He’s getting old now, he’d like that.

  37. I’m planning on starting and finishing a sweater but also learning to spin. I’ve drop spindled but now have a wheel to try. I’m ready for the new year!

  39. I have several unfinished projects that I’d like to complete this year. (That doesn’t mean that I can’t start some new ones, also!)

  41. This year I’m going to read Principles of Knitting cover to cover instead of just the part I need to get past the speedbump in whatever project I have in my hands.
    I’m going to finish loading my stash on Rav so I know what I have to work with (and what I NEED to buy of course!)
    Either frog or finish FO’s. Really. I mean it this time.
    Keep up learning new techniques on a hat with stash yarn and then gifting stack of hats when snow falls to local shelters.
    Buy more yarn. 🙂

Have you read?

Fun Halloween Cowls to Knit

One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine. 

Case in point: Halloween cowls. 

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute. 

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like. 

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use. 

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry. 

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart. 

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry. 

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry. 

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available.