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Giveaway: Holiday Knitting Books

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holiday knitting books giveaway

Janet K. is our winner!

I’m not quite ready to admit that the holidays are right around the corner, but it’s true. So let’s celebrate this week with a giveaway of some really fun holiday-related knitting books.

This week’s giveaway winner will be sent (and I’ll really try to hurry on this one so you can use them this season!):

  • Knitivity by Fiona Goble, which tells the Christmas story in knit form and has patterns for 16 characters, from wise men and shepherds to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, as well as some animals to help decorate the includes manger scene.
  • ‘Twas the Knits Before Christmas, also by Goble, which tells “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is fiber form, complete with stockings, children, parents, Santa, reindeer and a moon with a striped scarf.
  • Knit a Vintage Christmas by Candi Derr, a fun book full of a dozen classic stocking patterns as well as instructions for a woodland wreath with tons of flowers, owls and hedgehogs that could be used for other projects and gift ideas like knit slippers, a hobby horse with a knit head and a bag to hold your Christmas pajamas.
  • The Stockings Were Knit by Mickey Landau, which is a quick little booklet with eight knit stocking designs.

If you’d like a chance to win these books, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, November 22. Please US addresses only for this one; that’s a lot of books!

I’d love to know if you are doing holiday knitting this year and how it’s going or if like me you haven’t started yet!

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

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  1. I am trying to finish up projects that somehow got put to the side. I have a few holiday projects that I need to start.

  3. The days are shorter in more ways than one as we head into the holiday season. If only I didn’t have to sleep:) These books like they’d be wonderful for festive fare.

    from sunny and bright VT where the grass is still green,
    the Vermonster

  8. WOW! What a marvelous collection of books!! I’m making sweaters for grandkids & DILs. I’m positive I’d find more projects in each of these books!

  10. I am knitting cowls for the three daughters and am always looking for new Christmas knitting patterns. Love having the opportunity to win these books.

  13. Yes, I am knitting gifts for Christmas right now. I have quite a list and knit them in order of importance. So, the bottom of the list items are not a big deal if I run out of time.

  17. I have 3 knitting projects that I hope to finish before the holidays: 2 scarfs and a toddler vest. So much to knit, so little time 🙂

  19. I’m way behind on my holiday knitting this year. But my mother asked me to knit her a Christmas stocking and these books look like they’re filled with great ideas and patterns. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway!!

  21. I just learned how to knit and would love to knit something for Christmas for the very first time!

  22. What a great collection of books—love the titles of the first two, so funny!! I am making doilies and scarves this year. Thanks for the chance to win.

  25. I have not started but I really need too! I have a list made of ideas though! thank you!! This is a lovely giveaway!!

  26. I’ve already finished a Christmas stocking, have a couple of hats to make, and also some knit and crocheted gift card holders. Hope it all gets done!

  28. So far I’ve made a pair of socks, baby blanket. Working on a hat and shawl. So much more to do ghouls. I’d love to win the books to help me with more ideas.

  30. Thank you for this awesome giveaway! I am way behind! I started a witch for Halloween and I am still trying to get her done! So needless to say I haven’t even started on any other holiday knitting.

  31. Oh my! It snuck up so quickly this year! I have a few projects to finish up from last year, but I can’t imagine not starting a few new ones this year! The books look awesome!! Thank you!

  36. I am knitting hats and socks. I would love the Knit a Vintage Christmas. I love all things vintage! Happy Holidays everyone!!!! :.))

  37. Not much holiday knitting for me…. I’m making a couple of knit ornaments for close friends. My daughter asked for a sweater, and I asked if she’d like to go through my cedar chests and have something of mine – she was thrilled with the idea. Since I’ve been knitting my entire life, I’ve got quite a collection.

  38. I probably won’t be doing much if any this year; not enough time and too many other projects going! But I do love knitting!

  39. I’d love a chance at these books. So fun!
    Right now I have a willy nilly shawl on my needles for Mom’s Christmas gift and a mermaid tail lapgan for my niece on my hook.

  45. Oh wow what a wonderful collection of books. I am learning to knit with a little help from YouTube because I am left handed.

Have you read?

Use Your Sock Yarn Scraps to Knit a Colorful Scarf

Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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