One Skein Wonders Book Release

One Skein Wonders has released it’s new book.

256 pages, 8 x 8 1/2, two-color photographs and illustrations throughout, full-color photo gallery of projects and has a RRP of $18.95 ISBN 1580176453

Hot off the heels of the uber-successful One-Skein Wonders, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders arms knitters with 101 more unique and captivating projects–all of which call for only a single skein of yarn!

This time around, editor Judith Durant scoured the country to gather the favorite one-skein patterns from America’s knitwear designers. The result is this one-of-a-kind collection of single-skein patterns, all of which are arranged by yarn weight so knitters can easily find broad ranges of possibilities for those orphan skeins.

A scrapbook of tastes and styles that celebrates the ingenuity of knitters nationwide, this collection of 101 projects comes to the rescue of every knitter wondering what to do with their lonely skeins, and proves once and for all that there’s no such thing as leftover yarn.

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It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends.

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat.

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away.

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches.

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try.

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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