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Jil Eaton’s Knitting School!

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Attention class! Come to order! Come on settle down! I know you’re excited to begin but we have a few basics to cover first!

First of all, I highly recommend that you go our and buy the textbook for this class. It’s called “Jil Eaton’s Knitting School – the complete guide to becoming a confident knitter”

Ready? Got your needles? Yarn? Something to measure gauge? What’s gauge? Well, let’s get started!

Chapter one covers the basics, from how to put together the perfect knitting kit, blocking and laundering, how to read a pattern and abbreviations. Then we get to practice these new techniques.

Beginner’s Delights is the next section. From the very first “making a slip knot” to the basic cast on’s, and knit stitch. Binding off, weaving in ends, and even pom poms! Then we get to practice these new techniques.

Throughout this whole book from the beginners techniques and projects through the graduate school which covers bobbles, socks, kitchener stitch, fair isle, texture knitting, pleats, and lace and multistitch patterns this book is chock full with all the tips, techniques and helpful little hints to ensure success. This one’s definitely a keeper….. for you!

And someone’s going to win it! Leave me a comment telling me who or what you would use this book for!

Ready… Set…. Go!

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Comments

  1. I can only do basic knitting (scarves, and jumpers that never fit as my technique is terrible) so I’d use this to improve and finally knit something pretty!

  2. I’m pretty confident basic knitter, but I’m forever passing up projects because they involve knitting on double pointed needles or any kind of color work. I even the most adorable cardigan pattern for my little girl on Ravelry, but have stopped short of buying yarn for it because color work scares me. I’m hoping this book would help give me the confidence to go beyond “just the basics” to make something truly special for my loved ones. =0)

  3. I would use it to encourage some of the girls at a local youth club I help at to begin knitting and make gifts to put in shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Oh AND to remind myself of some of the stuff I have no doubt forgotten.

  4. I would give this to my niece who is learning to knit. My sister does not knit so a book like this will be good.

  7. I would like to learn beyond the basic techniques to be able to knit more advanced projects for myself and my family.
    Thanks 🙂

  8. This looks like a great reference for a somewhat new knitter like myself, I’d defiantly share it with my niece when she comes over to get her started knitting, she’s been asking when she’d be old enough.

  9. This book would be for me! I have very very basic knitting skills. I would love to be able to knit something other than a scarf like hats and sweaters and all the other goodies! 🙂

  11. I wish I could learn to read my knitting better, so I wouldn’t get so lost when doing cables and lace. I get lost so often!

  12. This book would surely help me get past some of my knitting phobias and get further with my knitting!

  13. Would love the book for my daughter 🙂 She is just getting started and would enjoy a wonderful tutorial book.

  14. It’s my dream to one day retire and open a yarn store. I’d use the book to refine my techniques, better my knitting, and also to help me in my quest to become a master knitter.
    My niece is five and enjoys watching me knit. I’d love to be able to pass this book on to her in time.

  15. My husband and I just started a plan to get out of debt and one of the recommendations is to give crafts for xmas. That is what I would use this book for.

  17. I am a beginner and could definitely use a more solid foundation of the basics, as I tend to choose patterns beyond my knitting know-how…. just love a challenge, I guess!

  18. this book would be so helpful, as I am new at knitting and find myself in problems that I don’t even know how I got myself there!

Have you read?

Knit a Glasses Holder for Your Bedside Table

knit glasses holder

Not too long ago I was seeing a crochet pattern for a glasses holder shaped like a bear all over the Internet. It was super cute, and also useful as a place to put your glasses on your bedside table instead of just throwing them somewhere random.

This project stewed in my brain for a little while and I decided I needed to make a knit version, but I didn’t want to make a bear. If you know anything about me you might know that I’m a cat person, so of course my version had to be a cat.

The base is just a basic little basic worked from the center out to the desired size, then up the sides as long as you want them. Knit some ears and add embellishments to make it whatever kind of animal you want.

The way I figured out to work the base from the center out was to use a crochet cast on, which gives you an easier way to pick up stitches from the back of the cast on than if you worked a more traditional cast on for a knitting project. It’s kind of fun to do things in a different way from time to time.

This little project is adorable if I do say so myself, and even as a plain little basket not made into an animal it’s a cute way to keep your glasses or other little things in one place. I’m tempted to make one for my desk to hold pens or even little little scissors and sewing needles that are always on my desk but somehow always seem to get lost on my desk.

If you need a little holder for your glasses on your table, check out the pattern at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]