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Giveaway – Kristin Omdahl’s Knitting Wrapsody!

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Take 18 original designs, a plethora of interesting techniques and elements, and a DVD full of tutorials, and what do you have?

Kristin Omdahl’s Knitting Wrapsody! Wrap, drape and tie your knitting with scarves, shawls, capes, wraps, shrugs and skirts. If you can wrap it, drape it or tie it, it’s in here!

Kristin takes some unusual approaches to her techniques and the accompanying dvd will guide you through. A perfect way to learn, and who better to learn from!

This giveaway will end Mar 16, 2011. Leave me a comment about Kristin’s designs.

Comments

  2. Great, you fixed it – thank you!
    That bolero on the cover is gorgeous. It’d look fab on me ?

  4. I also love the wrap on the cover but think it’s totally awesome that the book has skirts too! That’s a big selling point for me.

  9. I can’t seem to finish a full-size sweater, but her wraps are perfect for my attention span!

  13. Wow! I have always preferred crochet, but these designs make me want to pick up the old knitting needles again!

  15. Kristin Omdahl’s book is chocked full of lovely designs. The Infinity and Anouk would be the first two garments I would knitted as ‘no giveaways’….just for me. If I won this book and DVD…..I’d finally have to hook up the DVD player.

  20. i saw a few patterns that look amazing, I would love to get my hands on this book! My first project would probably be that Purple Lace Dress/wrap or the Infinity sweater coat.

  24. I absolutely love wraps…I do not get cold easily but for the occasional chill they are perfect and Kristin is so wonderfully inventive.

  26. I have been looking at this book since it came out! I would love to win it. I love Kristin’s designs. I have “Crochet So Fine” and LOVE it.

  27. I LOVE the yak wrap,tree of life,the wrap skirt,and the cardi-wrap with sleeves,oh my I guess I love them ALL! Thanks for the giveaway!1

  28. This book looks amazing! I absolutely love the shrug on the cover. It’s the perfect combination of color, shape and interesting stitches. If I win I would make that one first.

  29. Love the cover wrap too but would love to get my hands on the Echo Reversible Drop-Stitch Mobius also!! Great for spring.

  34. I would love to have the book! It is on my list of books to purchase as I love wraps.

  38. I have never knit any of her designs but they look GORGEOUS!!! So if I win the book…I’ll get right into knitting one of them!! I DO have a USA mailing address…

  41. I have one of Kristin’s crochet books and love it. Her designs are always beautiful and unique, which is why I love them. I’m a beginning knitter and would love to get this book. The shrug on the cover is fabulous!

  42. I looked at the book and she does do some of the best knitting of any one I know. I would love to win the book it would look good with my other craft books. Thank you and have a wonderful week.

  44. That blue shrug on the cover is amazing. I love it! I’m learning to knit so the book would be a fantastic resource!

  45. Interesting designs, but the shrug on the cover is my favorite. I’d definitely knit it first!

  46. Looks like a great book. I love knitting wraps, and want to try several of these projects

  47. I love wraps, especially living in New Mexico where nights are cool all year long. These look perfect!

Have you read?

Patchwork Blanket Knitting Patterns

Any time of year is a good time for stash busting, but if you can combine it with knitting a blanket that will keep you warm when it (finally!) gets cooler that’s even better. Let’s take a look at some fun patchwork blanket knitting patterns. 

If you want to keep it super simple, you can just make blocks of garter stitch and sew them together, like the beginner’s patchwork baby blanket from Mini Baa Baa or the color block blanket from Make and Do Crew. Both projects are worked in strips and sew together, with the baby version calling for two strands of DK or light worsted weight yarn held together and the larger one using bulky yarn. 

Add a little more texture with the mixed blocks of the cottage quilt throw from Mama in a Stitch. This one combines garter stitch and seed stitch and uses worsted weight yarn. She used a crochet join to make the chains on top of the blocks, but you can join them however you like. It calls for eight colors but you can use what you have, and there are three size options. 

Get a real sampler style patchwork blanket with this design from Knit Sew Make. It calls for worsted weight yarn and has four size options. All of the patterns just use knit and purl stitches so this one is still pretty easy for beginners. 

If you want a more complex colorwork project that will keep you entertained all season, try the Peace by Piece blanket pattern from Needle and Feather. This one is made up of two color colorwork blocks and calls for worsted weight yarn. You can choose to use just a few of the blocks and repeat them more often, or make multiples of the whole set. 

The knitted patchwork recipe from Martine Ellis (free on Ravelry) uses mitered squares in fingering weight yarn, so it’s perfect for using up all your leftover sock yarn and mini skeins. This one is a tutorial more than a pattern so you can make your blanket as big as you like or keep going until you run out of yarn. 

Susan B. Anderson’s 100 Squares blanket (find it on Ravelry) has a lot of mitered squares, too, but they’re arranged in fun ways and includes some quilt inspired designs as well. This one also is a bit of method more than pattern but it sure looks like a lot of fun for using all the leftovers. 

Of course you can totally improvise a patchwork blanket using the yarn and stitches you like, but I hope these patterns inspire you to look at your leftover yarn in a new way.