Knitting

Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas

The Complete Idiots Guide To Knitting Illustrated Giveaway.

by

The Complete Idiots Guide to Knitting Illustrated by Barbara Morganroth
30 fun projects—from casting on to trying on!

Here is a step-by-step instruction book for beginning to intermediate knitters featuring 30 fun projects to wear or make for friends, including hats, mittens, scarves, neck warmers, shawls, shrugs, capelets, ponchos, wraps, sweaters, and more. Each project includes variations, recommendations, types of needles and yarn required, suggested substitutions, care and completion time.

• Features an eight-page, four-color insert with photos of finished projects
• Includes more than 150 step-by-step photos and illustrations

About the Author
Barbara Morganroth is a former soap opera and television writer who now makes her living as a cookbook and craft book writer. She has published more than 14 books, includingGingerbread: Things of Make and Bake, The Weekend Chef, and The 50 Best Cherry Recipes.
WIN WIN WIN

We are giving 3 lucky readers the chance to grab a copy of this book. For your chance to win simply enter here.

Competition Open – Worldwide
Competition Closes – August 15th.

Comments

  1. This is a most beautiful book and I have my fingers crossed for the competition. Very inspirational- I would be off on a yarn!

  4. I’d love to win this book. I’m teaching my granddaughter to knit and it would be a lovely gift for her.

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.