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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?

Knit Little Fish to Use Your Yarn Scraps

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out. 

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs. 

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make. 

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color. 

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash. 

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail). 

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs. 

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]