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Giveaway…Vintage Knits For Modern Babies

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Vintage Knits for Modern Babies presents twenty-five vintage-inspired patterns from the stylish baby knitwear label, Shescraftyknits.com. Owner and designer Hadley Fierlinger shares her lovingly crafted collection of hand-knitted, heirloom-quality garments for infants and toddlers aged six months to three years. From caps, cardigans, and mittens to booties, bonnets, and blankets–each pattern features delicate period details hearkening back to the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s while offering modern comfort and a contemporary preference for natural and organic yarns. This is a delightful gift for mothers-to-be, grandmothers, godmothers, aunties, and others, offering a full range of keepsake projects at proficiency levels for beginner, intermediate, and experienced knitters.

This giveaway will run for one week only, and to enter, tell me about your favorite baby knitting pattern!

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Comments

  1. I love any fun baby hat pattern! Hats are so cute, and such instant gratification. I LOVE them!
    —Tif

    P.S. Pick me! 🙂

  2. My go to baby knitting projects are the Simple Baby Hat from Itty Bitty Hats. As well as the baby bib from Mason Dixon Knitting. Super easy and fun, plus there are tons of ways to jazz them up. I also love that they are usable.

  4. I don’t have a favorite yet. I just got my first pair of knitting needles and yarn for christmas and am doing my first project! I’m really enjoying it and look forward to doing lots more!

  5. I like to make either a stack of bibs and burp cloths ala Mason Dixon, or a blanket. They can be plain or fancy, and they always fit, even if it takes me a bit to get them to the recepient. In the last 3 years, I’ve knit for 19 newborns, and made one sweater. I’ll make my babies clothes.

  6. One of my favorite patterns is a Shaker Knit pattern that I think was probably published in the 1960s. I have my grandmother’s copy of the magazine that it came in.
    rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com

  8. i had to return this book to the libraary today and was so sad about it!!!

    So far i have really enjoyed saarjeets booties! they are so fun to change up and personalize

  11. my favorite pattern has to be a set of a hat and tiny shoes my mom made for my youngest. They were so pretty. She got it from a japanese site but can’t remember which.

  12. My favourite pattern was one knitted for my baby by someone else. It was a pair of vintage booties but they had been knitted in black and hot pink and were instantly transformed into little vintage goth booties if there can be called such a thing. She looked fabulous running around in her walker with those on :o)

  14. My favorite knitting pattern was a hand written baby bootie pattern that is now lost. This was in Costa Rica. I may have lost it in the move to the United States in 1967. I remember that it called for sommething like 45 stitches and it was easy to make. Remembering the pattern, always bring good memories about one of my aunts teaching me to knit when I was 12 years old.

  15. My favorite knitting pattern was a hand written baby bootie pattern that is now lost. This was in Costa Rica. I may have lost it in the move to the United States in 1967. I remember that it called for something like 45 stitches and it was easy to make. Remembering the pattern, always bring good memories about one of my aunts teaching me to knit when I was 12 years old.

  16. It’s been a long time. The last baby thing I knitted was when my 36 year old daughter was a baby….grin. So I guess that was my favorite.

  17. Our first Grand Baby Daughter is due any minute now!!! Excitement abounds! I like a quickie baby blanket pattern that I found on the interwebs. It uses fat fluffy yarn and knits up on big needles. Lacy, fluffy and cute.

  20. As a knitting beginner I’m able to get my needles clicking on easy level projects, I’m fond of bibs and Kimono wrap tops, and soft blankets for wee ones.

  21. I am learning to knit and found an adorable hat pattern for young children. Everyone comments on the hats I make with this pattern too!

  22. I’ve been drooling over this book since before it’s release and I’d love to win a copy! My favorite knitting pattern so far is the hat from the Stitch N Bitch book. Super-fast and super-cute!

  23. When I was little I carrried around a knitted blanket. It was made by my grandmother. Well, I guess I am following in her footsteps because that is what I like to make, and give as gifts.

  25. I love the mason dixon baby kimono! It looks super complicated, but all one piece, and garter stitch — what could be better?

  26. My current favorite is Divi Toddler Hoodie from the NaturallyCaron website. I made one for my new granddaughter this summer and another for a dear friend’s new granddaughter in Dec. and both moms love it — enough so that I have a request for one in a larger size for my granddaughter!

  27. My favorite baby pattern is from Debbie Bliss Simply Baby. It is a the manitee coat. I made one for my daughter after she was born and she looked adorable in it.

  28. I had fun knitting the poncho,
    BabyDROPS number 16-1
    Knitted DROPS poncho with hood and booties in ”Eskimo”.
    It was a fast knit with red bulky wool.
    I gave it to the neighbour behind us before
    I moved. Her mom called it the red riding hood cape. I was happy with the way it turned out.

  29. My favorite is Perfection Pants pattern from Little Turtle Knits. I have made at least 10 pairs for my daughter (she used them until she got 2.5 yo), and at least 5 pairs as gifts. It is especially neat since you plug in your own gauge and with some very simple hand-held math you get a custom pattern to fit your baby 🙂

    Other than that my most often used pattern is bottom up raglan sweater (sometimes I convert it to cardigan).

    I loved knitting Saartje’s booties as well but apparently they are not very practical (according to some mommies I know) so I haven’t made any more of those.

  30. I love making baby hats. The “umbilical cord” style tops are my favorite…usually I just cast on go without a pattern!

  31. I don’t have a favorite (yet) that’s why I’m hoping to snage this wonderful book. AND, it’s not for needing babies to knit for. My neices each have one…and three colleagues just let it be known that new bundles of joy are on the way! I need a “favorite” pattern like…ummmm..yesterday!!!!

  32. The first sweater I made for my first child is still my fav, E.Z’s. But recently I made the Angle by Tora Froseth in four different colors and it was brilliant!

  34. I love baby sweaters. I am new to knitting so my favorite pattern is actually a crochet pattern. It’s very simple and works for both baby boys and baby girls.

  35. I don’t have a favorite pattern as I haven’t done any baby knitting yet. I love little sweaters and caps. One mother told me recently it’s nearly impossible to find bonnets to buy anymore.

  38. I love any and ALL baby elf hats. They make for amazing photographs.
    I also love the cocoons, and there has never been a baby bootie that hasnt tugged at my heart.

  39. I love knitting baby blankets. as a matter of fact I just found a great pattern that I’m thinking about trying! My second favorite would have to be booties, although I have yet to find one that really stays on.

  41. i love baby knitting! it’s some instant gratification i tell ya!
    one of my favorite projects was a pair of baby booties called “seamless baby booties(top down)” found on ravelry. saartje’s baby booties are also super cute!

  43. I love baby knitting I have knitted rompers baby socks, diaper soackers sweaterss and longies. I am addicted to it.

  46. The “vintage” sets, hat with ribbon, saques and booties. I especially like the intricate designs that are like instant embellishment, right in the pattern!

Have you read?

Knit Little Fish to Use Your Yarn Scraps

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out. 

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs. 

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make. 

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color. 

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash. 

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail). 

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs. 

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]