Knit and Crochet for Kids with a Free Ebook from Red Heart

To celebrate the company’s new Baby Hugs yarn, Red Heart has released a free pattern ebook with 11 knit and crochet patterns for babies and little kids up to age 8.

The yarn Baby Hugs is a medium weight, extra soft acrylic yarn that comes in 14 solid, no dye lot colors and is Oeko-Tex Standard 100 class 1 certified, which means it has been tested for more than 300 potentially harmful substances and deemed safe to use for babies and children.

The patterns are a mix of crochet and knitting, with crocheted blankets, a poncho, a dress and a sweater, as well as several knit sweaters, a knit dress and a pixie hat.

Four of the knitting patterns are rated easy while one is intermediate. They’re all pretty darn cute. I’m thinking hard about that sweater dress for my daughter, because it goes up to size 8.

I hope you’ll check it out if you like knitting for kids and let me know what you think!

[Photo via Red Heart.]

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If you’re looking for a sweater knitting pattern that uses up some of your stash and allows you to make just the sweater you want, the Marlina Rib by Shay Johson might be just the thing.

It’s worked with two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight gauge, so you can use the same two yarns throughout or change one or both regularly for an even more colorful look.

The pattern has options to make it either a crewneck or a henley style with buttons, tapered or relaxed sleeves, and a straight hemline or a split hem with buttons (which sounds so cute if you do the henley with split hem and match the buttons on both parts).

It’s also knit from the top down so you can make the body and the sleeves as long as you want. There are 10 sizes available in the pattern, with a chest circumference ranging from 32 to 68 inches, or 81.5 to 172.5 cm. It’s meant to be worn with 4-6 inches/10-15 cm of positive ease at the chest.

The pattern page on Ravelry includes tons of measurements and yardage estimates so you can make sure you’ll get a good fit for your body before you even buy the pattern. Shay also shows a few variations of the sweater so you can see how different options look before you decide how you want to put them together.

The stitch pattern is 1×2 ribbing, which is really easy to do and gives a look almost like fisherman’s rib that’s relaxed and easy to wear.

This sweater looks like a great option for people who are somewhat new to sweater knitting or those who love to have lots of customization options (because it’s like getting multiple sweater patterns in one!).

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself at Ravelry.

[Photo: Shay Johnson]

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