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Giveaway: Geometric Knitting Patterns

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This one goes to Kitten with a Whiplash.

Playing with color in knitting is a lot of fun, whether you’re working simple stripe patterns into a design or using an allover geometric motif in multiple colors and textures.

Geometric Knitting Patterns by Tina Barrett includes charts for 750 different colorwork designs, from stripes and chevrons to plaids, tessellating patterns to designs inspired by nature, simple shapes and random designs.

There are a handful of actual projects in the book, but it’s really more about inspiring you to play with different designs, whether you add them to a plain sweater or stitch up a bunch of swatches and turn them into a colorful blanket.

This fun book is up for grabs this week; if you want a chance to win it leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, October 4. I’d love to know about your favorite color combinations. I’m a big fan of blues and greens but I’m trying to expand my color horizons!

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

Comments

  2. This book looks like fun! I enjoy almost every color combination: reds and orange, blue and orange, red and black re some of my favorites.

  3. i love a ton of color combos but my favorite right now that I am finding myself working with is navy and cream and dark green or kahki green with a cream color.

  5. Although blue is my favorite color, and I do like tone on tone, I try to branch out in color combos. My last cardi was Dark Chocolate Brown, Mustard Yellow, Avocado Green and Rust. Sounded prettty tasty ’til the rust, didn’t it?

  6. I like navy and pink. But then I also like Yellow and navy. I think I am just a big fan of navy and other colors.

  7. Love doing color work though could use some new ideas. Love using purple , pink and blue or yellow though with a new grandson i think i need tovthink boy colors now.

  8. I knit a shawl in chocolate brown and seafoam green that’s pretty striking. I was aiming for teal when I dyed the yarn but the seafoam ended up working better than expected.

  10. Thanks for the giveaway.
    I”m loving Dark purple and Neon green, also gray, white and black with chartruese.

  14. I usually go for brown and cream or various shades of blue but am trying to experiment more using a touch of yellow or orange to bring warmth to my knits!

  15. My favorite color combination is purple with almost any or every other color. It just seems to go with everything 🙂 This book looks amazing with some really interesting designs and patterns. Thanks for another great giveaway!

  16. I like experimenting alll all different color combinations usually bright colors with some neutrals mixed in.

  17. I recently made a pink and black striped scarf for my daughter. I really love purples and greens or purples and blues together, though.

  20. Book of my dreams! So I am crossing my fingers, toes, arms, and legs. My favorite combos are pretty predictable New England–cranberry and cream and hunter green and ivory.

    from VT where the sun is trying to chase very persistent clouds away and losing the battle,
    the Vermonster

  21. I like greens and browns often with yellow and red. Together they remind me of fall foliage. I love playing with geometric patterns in my knitting.

  22. I have a lot of fav color combos. Ombres are always nice. But I also like grey with either pink or blue. And anything with black looks nice!

  25. This book looks great! I love brown and color combinations – like brown and chartreuse, brown and sky blue, brown and pink.

  30. Would love to have this for my library. I love playing with colour combos – no favourites at the moment but my usuals include at least one blue.

  31. I love, love pink & brown together. Otherwise, I dig the Japanese ability to mix disparate colors. Sometimes it even works for me.

  33. What a great book. I would like to delve into this type of knitting. I love bright colors. Hues of greens and blues. Or yellow, orange, and pink.

  35. Coral and turquoise! Try’em for a boost of color for Autumn…cool and warm, just like the weather.

Have you read?

Easy Knit Baskets to Use All Your Stash

For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts. 

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts. 

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects. 

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version. 

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want. 

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do. 

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like. 

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.