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Giveaway: Animal Lovies

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Animal Lovies reivew and giveaway

Congratulations to Lee!

This is a book that I really want to need so I can keep it and knit all these adorable projects for myself. But I know I would never actually make them, not having a baby anymore, so I want this book to go to someone who will really use it

Animal Lovies by Yolanda Soto-Lopez includes 10 knitting projects for really cute snuggly blankies with little heads and arms that make it a blanket/doll combination. The patterns are for a bear, bunny, lamb, penguin, duck, bird, dog, panda, cat and giraffe and they are all so cute I can’t even tell you. You can see all the projects at Leisure Arts.

The blankets are 12 inches square and all the projects are rated easy +, so if you have some projects that involve increase and decreasing under your belt you’re ready for this book.

If you’d like a chance to win this one, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, March 20. I’d love to know which animal or animals you would knit and who in your life you can knit lovies for.

Thank you for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

Comments

  1. I would love to make some zoo animal themed lovies for all the new babies my friends and coworkers have been having

  2. I would make a cat because it seems cute
    I would make it for my friend’s child because they are so cute and would love them.

  3. I knit for our local Birthright and these would be perfect for them. Also, I just found out my niece is pregnant and I’d love to make her the cat or bunny. They are all so adorable!

  6. They are all adorable. I personally love bunnies, but I should really make one for a friend expecting in June (instead of one for myself LOL)

  8. Our knitting group always chooses a project each year to donate to our local community organizations. We have made baby blankets for a home serving unwed mothers, lap blankets for a local veteran’s facility and knitted animals for the children entering our local domestic abuse housing. These blankies would be an excellent project for our group to provide to children in our local hospital.

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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.