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Giveaway: Knit Scarves and Shawls Now

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Knit scarves and shawls now book review

Reader amchart is our winner!

It won’t always be this way, that the book I’m giving away is the one I reviewed the week before, but since we had such fun with the cowl book I thought it would be nice to offer one for the scarf people as well.

So this week’s giveaway is Knit Scarves and Shawls Now, a collection of 41 (by my count) shawls, scarves and, yes, a few cowls, using lots of different techniques and originally published in German.

It looks like a really fun book, particularly for people who like gift knitting or just having a whole wardrobe of scarves and shawls to choose from (that’s me, for sure).

Since we covered cowls vs. scarves last week, this time if you’d like to be entered to win, leave a comment on this post by the end of the day Sunday, February 14 (aww) letting me know what sort of neck-knitting, if any, you are wearing today.

As I type this I’m wrapped in a Quaker Yarn Stretcher (the shawl version) in some lovely Fuzzy Yarn. So yes, I have a soft spot for simple little shawls, too.

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

 

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Comments

  1. It’s still summer here in Victoria, Australia, so no scarf today. But only 20 minutes ago I was trawling through my stash for the makings of a new one. I live in the hills and the colder weather is a great reason to have lots of colour and texture and squish like the pictures in the book!

  2. This book look like a wonderful book with alot of great patterns to make thanks for sharing and the chance to win.

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]