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Spring is baby season, and to celebrate we've updated our free baby knits eBook, Baby Patterns from Knitting Daily: 9 Free Baby Knitting Patterns ! 1. Preemie Caps; 2. Vine Lace Baby Hat; 3. Baby's First Sock; 4. Better than Booties Baby Socks; 5. Star Light, Star Bright Baby Blanket; 6. Barnyard...
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I've found a great source for free patterns: Craftsy.com. They've got some really great patterns trending in their free pattern collection. My favorite is the baby knitting pattern Fortune Cookie Booties. They're almost painfully cute—and easy to knit, too. Wrap them up in a Chinese...
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Now's the time of year to get cozy under a knitted blanket! We've gathered four free afghan knitting patterns for you in our new free eBook, Cozy Knitted Blanket Patterns: 4 Free Afghan Knitting Patterns —a fabulous counterpane bedspread; a beautiful lacy afghan with an easy-to-memorize...
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I was taking a stroll through past Knitting Daily blogs, and I came upon a cute blog by Sandi Wiseheart. She knit a precious baby cap and didn't discover a mistake she made until the cap was finished and snug on the recipient. It happens to the best of us! My most memorable mistake happened when...
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Barnyard Booties by Sue Flanders ( Interweave Knits , Summer 2000) When I think of the year 2000, it doesn't seem that long ago. But when I think "eleven years" that seems like a really long time! I've been pondering this because I've been browsing Interweave Knits from 2000 ((all...
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The Harvey Kimono by Louisa Harding, pattern available in Natural Knits for Babies and Moms Sometimes a pattern just grabs you and won't let go. That happened to me with the Harvey Kimono by Louisa Harding. In my November 9 post , I put this project on my calendar for summer, but I couldn't wait...
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There is something so special about knitting for a baby (and then seeing your knitted item actually on the baby). So cute! I love looking through baby patterns and seeing the adorable babies modeling knitted sweaters and snuggling with knitted toys and napping in knitted blankets. Since I don't have...
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Great Free Baby Knitting Patterns eBook: Baby Patterns from Knitting Daily: 7 Free Baby Knitting Patterns There is nothing quite like a handknit baby gift. Our readers are always asking us for more baby patterns: adorable little knitted gifts to make for new members of the family, or for charity. And...
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Note from Sandi: Knitting for a child seems to bring out in us the longing to make something worthy of being passed down through the generations. Here is Lisa Shroyer's contributrion to the staff design challenge for Interweave Knits Summer 2009: "Design an Heirloom." Sweet Hex Child’s...
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Note from Sandi: Here is Rebecca Daniels, editorial assistant for Interweave Knits , to tell us about the cabled baby sweater she designed as part of the Summer 2009 staff project: "Design an Heirloom." When I think of heirloom, the first things that come to mind are delicate lace shawls and...
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Just as I’m writing Monday’s post about not having to knit any gifts this season…Two of my friends, Katie and Amy, go and have their babies. Sure, in each case I had nine months’ notice, but did I knit anything babyish so that the gifts would be all ready to go when the babies...
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Gryhon Perkins' Old World Booties By popular demand, we have made arrangements to bring back the Old World Booties pattern by Gryphon Perkins. (Free download! Whoo!) These booties are so cute, and so unusual, that I asked Gryphon to write a little bit about what inspired her to design these felted...
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Introducing Ms. Kitty On Monday, when I wrote about the joys of handmade toys , I had no intention of actually knitting one of the little cuddlies whose pattern I was offering to all of you. I thought, what a cute pattern...but I have Serious Knitting Projects to work on, so no chance of me casting on...
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Knitted Cuddlies My favorite toy growing up was a stuffed purple cow--it was the sixties, so Cowie was a truly vibrant shade of purple. I loved that cow. Heard of the Velveteen Rabbit? Well, this guy was The Velveteen Cowie. He got so tattered that my mom felt it was time for Cowie to move on. It got...
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I have an industry secret to reveal: Knitting editors are human. (Not aliens from The Planet Of Perfect Knitting! Imagine that.) We make mistakes while knitting just like anyone else. The difference is that sometimes our knitting mistakes end up in a high-resolution photograph, published for all the...