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Knit Cuties for the Little Ones on Your List

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Cute patterns to knit for little humans.I’ve been knitting a lot for my daughter lately. I think it’s to make up for the year I was working on a book full of adult garments and not knitting anything at all her size. But now I’ve got my eye on knits for smaller humans, and there’s always a lot of cute stuff to stitch.

Here are a few things that have crossed my radar lately.

Love Knitting has the cutest free patterns, and they’re all about dapper cardigans for little ones recently. The striped cardigan from Style Craft and the Christmas-colored Debbie Bliss cardigan are both shown on boys but would be adorable on any baby. (Both are free but require a free subscription signup.)

The summery I’ll Knit You Up I Love You Sew form Jordana Paige is super cute to make any time of year, and doesn’t require a lot of knitting because the bodice of the dress is knit while the skirt is fabric. You could make it a more winter-friendly dress by stitching longer sleeves.

And Classic Elite’s Center Out Baby Blanket is a lovely, colorful pattern worked in a self-striping yarn, great for any little one (or little one to be) on your list.

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!