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Review: Knit Hats for Babies

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Knit Hats for Babies by Lee Ann Garrett book review.I review a lot of books over at About.com, but I’m never anywhere near caught up. There’s always more to read and write about than I make time to.

So in that spirit I thought I would start trying to do a book review over here every week, on Tuesdays, to spread the knitting book love around a bit.

This also seems to be Leisure Arts week here at Craft Gossip, because I picked out another one of their books to tell you about. Knit Hats for Babies by Lee Ann Garrett is a really cute book full of seasonal hat patterns for little ones.

From a football to a Santa hat, a hat inspired by an Easter egg to a square hat adorned with hearts, these nine patterns are sized to fir babies up to a year of age. They’re sweet, fun to knit and adorable on their own, but even cuter with a wee head inside.

My favorites are the Santa hat and the two Halloween hats: one that looks like a ghost and one a witch hat. The scale is just so cute, they’re hard to resist!

You can see all the patterns on Ravelry, and it’s highly likely I’ll be giving this one away soon, so stay tuned for that.

Do you knit themed hats for babies? I’d love to hear about your favorites.

Looking for more knitted beanie patterns for Babies? Check these out on Etsy.

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  1. I bought this book in the fall and have made several of the hats, including the baseball, football and ghost. I made the hats for my 17-month grandson and I can’t tell you the number of people who have stopped to comment on them. Great book with good, easy to follow directions.

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Knit a Linen Stitch Hot Pad

Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough. 

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern. 

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed. 

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do. 

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces. 

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls. 

You can grab the pattern over at Our Daily Craft, or check it out on Ravelry. 

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