Knitting Daily Offers Ebook of Season 900 Patterns

I completely forgot to mention — probably because my PBS station doesn’t run it! — that the latest season of Knitting Daily TV recently started airing. The good people at Knitting Daily have made it easier for all of us to follow along with the projects mentioned in the series by producing a free ebook containing 13 patterns (knit and crochet) from the series.

The book includes the lovely Chevron Market Bag by Kristen TenDyke, Ann Berk’s Albus Argyle Socks, the textured chevron Amstel Hat by Courtney Kelley, Laura Bryant’s multi-textured Lush Cowl and a dropped-stitch hat, scarf and vest for men by Kathy Zimmerman, to name a few. Some of the patterns were clearly scanned from other sources and don’t look great on my computer, but they’re still readable enough to use and knit from.

Do you watch Knitting Daily TV? I’m a few seasons behind because I have to get the DVDs, but I’ve always enjoyed it and learned something from my time spent with the program.

[Photo by Knitting Daily TV.]

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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