Category Archives: gift knitting

Spooky Holiday Knits!

It's time for hauntings, ghostie ghoulies and other fantastic Halloween traditions! You can celebrate in style this year with your own bowl full of knit eyeballs with this FREE Knit Eyeballs pattern

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Lacy Spa Cloth

Participating in the 52 Weeks of Dishcloths has been an adventure.  Trying new stitch patterns on a small scale fits with my crazy, busy life.  I decided that a spa cloth, with a lacy pattern, would be fun to try using Dishie.

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Model Behavior

You may have seen that we have some new free patterns that just hit the site. I have to say, the models have me smitten. I would say that, though, they're my babies! This is Lulu.

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Hawthorne

  Hawthorne is my newest yarn crush with the lovely color palette, local yarn names (so much fun to pick!) and the wonderfully durable fiber blend it's perfect for so many different projects. Alison has been making baby sweaters, I've seen a few lovely shawls and I've personally made almost four pairs of socks since we got the samples in the office. We also reknit the Gradual Rib Hat from the Geometric Pattern Collection in Rose City and Irvington, I like the new colors even BETTER than the original Stroll colorway!

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Crafting for the football fan

We're coming to the end of the NFL season, and while I am definitely more of a baseball fan, I do enjoy a lazy Sunday watching some football. And, as of this moment, my two favorite teams are still battling to make it to the SuperBowl (that would be the Seahawks & the Patriots, mainly due to my Seattle & Boston connections). If you're reading this after January 19th, and neither team is in the SuperBowl, just picture me being very sad. Since I have a lot of friends who are also sport fans, I've gotten requests for some knitted/crochet items in team colors so I thought I'd share some of my favorites patterns

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Cobblestone Christmas Sweater

Jared Flood's Cobblestone Pullover has been haunting me for years. I think most knitters have a pattern that has lingered in their mental list of things to knit for far too long and at some point it becomes this obstacle that needs to be conquered. I bought my very first issue of Interweave Knits way back in 2007 during my first year of college and the early days of my knitting adventures. Over the years I've sifted through that single issue so many times that it's falling to pieces. Without fail, I would head straight to the Cobblestone Pullover whenever this issue resurfaced on my book shelf, and I would find myself wishing that I had either the yarn or the fella to knit it for. The stars never quite aligned for this pattern... until now!

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Accessory Weather

Those frosted windshields and travel mugs full of hot tea mean that it's accessory weather! Fingerless mittens have come out of storage weeks ago, I've started carrying around a slouchy hat in my purse for windy emergencies this week and I just sorted through my chest of knit sweaters. I've been pretty steadily increasing the winter wardrobes of my extended family and friends every Christmas and this year is certainly no different. I wanted to share a few of my recent favorites to add to your own knitting list!

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A Bevy of Brava Blankets

There's nothing quite like a handknit blanket to warm you up on a winter day. And they're even better when they're washable! That's why we have several blanket kits in our super-soft, sturdy acrylic Brava yarn. It's hard to go wrong with the Hue Shift afghan! This favorite blanket is available as kits in four colorways...

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Switching Sides

Our friend Katrina from our sister company Connecting Threads finished a gorgeous new blanket to show you! As the graphic designer for Connecting Threads, I’m typically blogging about small quilting and sewing projects that I've completed, however it’s time to switch things up a bit! Earlier this year, two of the ladies on the Knit Picks team graciously offered their time to teach a bunch of us non-yarn folk how to crochet. There is a long list of crocheting ladies in my family, and I was determined to be one of them. While I didn't pick up on it right away, it did eventually click and I found a new craft to be obsessed with.

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