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Win a Copy of Berroco’s New Baby Book

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comfort knitting babies and toddlersComfort Knitting and Crochet: Babies and Toddlers has been sitting on my bedside table for a few weeks now, waiting to be looked at (it could be I’m a little over baby knitting right now because I’m finishing up my book and just don’t want to judge my book against it and vice versa). The little bit I’ve flipped through it it looks really cute.

The projects come from Norah Gaughan and the Berroco Design Team and use Berroco’s Comfort and Vintage lines, which are great choices for kids because they’re washable, soft and come in a good variety of colors.

Berroco is giving 25 lucky readers the chance to win a copy of the book. All you have to do is fill out this form, including your e-mail and shipping addresses, by the end of the day Thursday, also known as Oct. 11. Participants must be from the United States or Canada to win. And I’ll be sure to let you know what I think of the book just as soon as I give it a closer look.

Specific to knitters, you can join our Knitting Patterns Only group to get, well, knitting patterns, ask questions and gain inspiration for what to knit next.

Looking for more Baby Knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

Comments

  2. This sounds like it would be a good book to have. I have one grandchild and love to knit her all sorts of things.

Have you read?

Easy Knit Baskets to Use All Your Stash

For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts. 

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts. 

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects. 

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version. 

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want. 

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do. 

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like. 

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.