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Learn To Knit With Lucy Neatby!

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learn_to_knit_smCreate a new knitter with Lucy’s Learn to Knit Kit: This is the best possible launch for a new knitter of any age!
Our newly minted canvas knitting bag contains everything the new knitter will need to embark on a long and passionate affair with yarn and knitting: A pair of 6 mm (US#10) handmade River John birch needles, one 250g skein of our strong and lustrous aran weight Blue Faced Leicester Yarn (375 m/ 410 yds) and a copy of Lucy’s brilliant Brand New Knitter DVD (over 3 hours of personal instruction). The disc contains free printable scarf patterns for this yarn and needle combination. All the items in the kit have been prepared by small businesses in Nova Scotia.
Let us know if you wish a gift card included with this order.

From Lucy Neatby’s site, here: http://www.lucyneatby.com/tmhold2.html

As a side note, hubby asked what I wanted for Christmas and I told him that I wanted a set of wooden dpns in every size, and he DID NOT know what I was talking about! Sigh!! I’m thinking he needs further training…….

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  2. I’m surprised that more purveyors of yarn aren’t putting together nice learn to knit kits like this. I made one up myself for my 10 yo daughter with needles, wool and a couple of patterns and a learn to knit booklet. We’re planning a big car ride right after Christmas, so I’ll be able to give her some good, undivided attention. After all, who am I going to leave my yarn to if she doesn’t learn to knit?

Have you read?

Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.