Some Free Ebooks to Start Your Holiday Knitting

If you’re hanging out at home over the long holiday weekend (sorry if you happen to be in a place that doesn’t celebrate, or already had Thanksgiving), now might be a good time to start some holiday knitting if you haven’t already.

Check out these free ebooks to get you started.

Knitting Daily has a lot of free ebooks available to subscribers (which is also free), but the one to note right now is a gift knitting book. It includes nine patterns for hats, mitts, scarves, knit ornaments, a bag and a pair of socks. They’re all for women, but they’re still really cute. And those Winter Twilight Mitts are amazing.

If you’re looking for holiday decor, check out Red Heart’s Decorate and Celebrate ebook, which has 30 projects for knitting and crochet as well as some general yarn crafting (yarn ball ornaments!). There are afghans, snowmen, ornaments, socks, stockings and more.

And while this one isn’t actually an ebook, check out the latest episode of Tea with Shira over at the Lion Brand blog. It’s about quick knit and crochet projects you can make in a weekend for gifting, and all the patterns are free (you have to have a free account to download). So fun.

Are you working on gift or decor projects this weekend? I’d love to know what’s on your needles!

Looking for more Thanksgiving patterns check these out on Etsy.

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.

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