Nursery to Toddler

Knitted Baby Bootees $9.28 Confirming the old adage that big things come in small packages, the compact volumes of this ongoing series offer crafters an easy outlet for their passions–be they for fiber arts, sugarcraft, polymer clay, glasswork, papercraft, or jewelry. Emphasizing the simple fun of crafts, each concise resource includes 20 fast-to-finish, easy-to-do projects that always focus on a single subject or theme. Suitable for newborn babies up to 6 months old, this project guide collects 20 irresistible patterns for making adorable baby booties. Offering booties in an array of colors and contemporary styles, each project is accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions, including a list of materials needed, as well as a stunning, full-color photograph of each finished pair.

Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Bark $73.99 Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Bark

Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Blossom $73.99 Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Blossom

Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Daffodil $73.99 Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Daffodil

Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Glass $73.99 Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Glass

Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Lawn $73.99 Nook Sleep Knitted Blanket With Ripple in Lawn

Pickles 100% Bamboo Garden Stripe Knit Baby Blanket Maroon $34.99 Go green with a Pickles “Farm Fresh” garden stripe knit baby blanket. It’s good for the baby and the Earth! The knitted bamboo is cool to the touch and amazingly soft on the skin.

Pickles 100% Bamboo Garden Stripe Knit Baby Blanket Oatmeal $34.99 Go green with a Pickles “Farm Fresh” garden stripe knit baby blanket. It’s good for the baby and the Earth! The knitted bamboo is cool to the touch and amazingly soft on the skin.

Pickles 100% Bamboo Garden Stripe Knit Baby Blanket Pink $34.99 Go green with a Pickles “Farm Fresh” garden stripe knit baby blanket. It’s good for the baby and the Earth! The knitted bamboo is cool to the touch and amazingly soft on the skin.

Pickles 100% Bamboo Garden Stripe Knit Baby Blanket Blue $34.99 Go green with a Pickles “Farm Fresh” garden stripe knit baby blanket. It’s good for the baby and the Earth! The knitted bamboo is cool to the touch and amazingly soft on the skin.

baby blanket knitted instructions

Beyond the Square Crochet Motifs: 144 circles, hexagons, triangles, squares, and other unexpected shapes $11.39 Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee….

Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook $4.69 Knitting is hot with 4 million newcomers in the last few years. These are primarily young creative connected chicks with sticks who are coming together in living rooms knitting cafes and chic yarn stores. In this book Debbie Stoller covers every aspect of knitting and the knitting together lifestyle, the how-to the when-to the what-to and the why-to. At the heart of the book are 40 stylish pattern…

Knit Your Own Dog: Easy-to-Follow Patterns for 25 Pedigree Pooches $8.48 The knitted dog is indeed the ideal companion. There’s no feeding, barking, shedding, or vet’s bills, and he’ll live forever! Knit Your Own Dog is the irresistible guide to knitting the perfect pup. By authors Sally Muir & Joanna Osborne…

How to Crochet – Solomon’s Knot Stitch (Lover’s Knot, Love Knot, Hail Stone, Salomon)

Tunisian Crochet: The Look of Knitting with the Ease of Crocheting

Tunisian crochet, sometimes called the Afghan stitch, combines the ease of crocheting with the appearance of knitting. This instructional pattern book brings Tunisian crochet into the realm of high fashion with exquisite stitch patterns, meticulous shaping, and attractive finishing.

I have Sharon’s second book on crocheting so I was ready for the nice photos and good layout in this book. Sharon has designed everything herself this time plus all the instructions. Photos showing the most basic Tunisian stitches begin the book followed by 16 projects which include scarf, wrap, skirt, shawl, shell, duster, clutch, vest, jumper, sweater, pillow, baby blanket, afghan, pillow, ottoman cover and placemats. I like the woman’s shell or vest, second vest, baby jumper, sweater, and the two truyen tranh hai afghans. All instructions are written out with no charts.

Skill level, and schematic included with each project and also helpful notes and working photos included. In the appendix is a standard sizing chart and one chart for the standard yarn weights. So my one criticism is that nowhere in the patterns are the yarns given that important information and some of the yarns are a bit unknown to me such as Blue heron yarns rayon metallic. I’ll have to go look them up online and add that information to this book.

I knew nothing about Tunisian crochet. This book helped me to understand how it worked. The illustrations and directions were top notch and clearly showed me how to do the stitches. After making a sample piece, just to get the hang of it, I realized that it did indeed, look like knitting, BUT this kind of crocheting makes an extremely thick finished product. I got to thinking about the implications of this as my ball of yarn disappeared at an astounding rate. This way of crocheting really eats up yarn!

More patterns playing to the strength of Tunisian crochet would have strengthened the book. The patterns are for various clothing items (most of which I wasn’t too excited about), but there was not one purse in there. Tunisian crochet would make a wonderfully sturdy handbag or even a nice, thick winter hat. I used it for the strap of a crocheted purse that I had almost completed. No worry about a too-stretchy strap now!

I give the book 3 stars weighing in the look of the book (beautiful), ease of learning how to do the stitch (very easy with great illustrations), types of patterns (lacking, uninspiring), and unfortunately, my new understanding of the yarn eater that this type of crochet is (think the Cookie Monster here).

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