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Giveaway: Knit Now!

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knit now book giveaway

Congratulations to Jennie.

By the title alone this book seems like an appropriate one for the end of one year and the start of another.

Knit Now! by Candi Jensen includes patterns and projects from the first three seasons of “Knit and Crochet Now!” (formerly also known as “Knit and Crochet Today”) as well as some new projects. There are accessories, projects for the home, gifts for babies and more included in the 26 projects in the book.

You’ll also find 12 afghan block of the week squares, enough to make your own throw. A DVD included with the book shows Candi Jensen demonstrating each of the blocks (runtime is 26 minutes).

This book is a lot of fun, colorful, and just the thing to jumpstart your knitting in the new year.

If you’d like a chance to win, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day (gasp) Sunday, January 3. I’d love to know if there’s a particular project or type of project that you’d like to tackle in the new year.

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, good luck and happy new year!

Comments

  2. Knitting is my winter ‘go to’ craft! The projects in this book look awesome!! Have an especially blessed day!

  5. I’d love to try to start using more than one color in my work. I’ve used color in the past, but not effectively, and hopefully some of these projects will give me the confidence to try!

  7. Looks like a great book…I want to tackle a block type afghan in the coming year…I usually do one piece afghans 🙂

  8. i need to start knitting things for babies and this book looks like it has lots of good ideas.

  15. I am a fairly new knitter and I can use all the help I can obtain! This book surely would be a help in the right direction. Thank you for having this giveaway!

  16. I need to work on getting a few projects off my needles then I’d probably like to start a fun new hat.

  17. Living in the world that if I start Christmas presents now for 2016 I will have more done than this year!

  18. Brand new to Craft Gossip! Looks great and I’d love to try out a new knitting book! My kids call me “the book lady” and I love to knit!

  19. I would love to get back to knitting regularly and finish the wip’s I have languishing in my closet.

Have you read?

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.