Gifts and Whimsies

Everyone loves a handmade gift!  Share your talent and precious works with those you love through knitted gifts and whimsies.  With so many creative ideas and projects, you don’t need to look any further.


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  • Now that fall is here, I've been thinking a lot about felting projects because I like to make felted items for holiday gifts. In the past I've made felted slippers, bags, beads for necklaces, and coasters. The coasters are a favorite
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  • Whether you knit scarves to take a break from serious knitting, to practice a new stitch, or even to knit up a quick gift, there's no denying that scarf knitting is popular amongst all skill levels. First you start with garter stitch scarves, and
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  • A note from Kathleen: As you all know, I'm a knitter. But I dabble in crochet (I did the Hemp Flowers Necklace a couple of years ago), and I was so excited to see the new book Crocheted Gifts . It's the sister book to Knitted Gifts , and it's
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  • I recently took a day-trip and the project I took with me was a tank top. I worked on it in the car, but it really took up too much room in my bag and in my lap and I was wishing for a small, purse-friendly project.
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  • Note from Sandi: Here's the third in our series of "heirloom" staff projects from the Summer 2009 issue of Interweave Knits . This time, Eunny Jang, editor of Knits , gives us a lovely yet quick knitted lace pattern--just in time for a last
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  • Everything you need to start blocking Note from Sandi: The holidays are a time to be with family--not to spend locked away in a room trying to finish up your holiday knitting! In July of 2007, I wrote a popular three-part series on blocking that seemed
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  • Note from Sandi: Here on Knitting Daily , we firmly believe that yarn should be an equal-opportunity addiction --everyone deserves a chance to be inspired to play with pretty yarns, no matter what their tool of choice. So when I heard that my friends
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  • BOO! (OK, I just had to get that out of my system.) Happy Halloween, everyone! (The guy in the photo chimes in, "And you think YOU have trouble with socks!" Today, as is fitting and right, I have a few treats for you (but no tricks). And don't
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  • Note: I've been talking a lot about gifts this week-- holiday gifts , gifts for baby . There's another kind of gift we knitters spend time and love on: charity knitting, where we give gifts to those members of our larger family who are in need
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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
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  • Overnight, it seems as though Knitting Land is a-buzz with the topic of holiday gifts. Knitters are comparing notes on what they are knitting for whom, how many gifts they are knitting overall, and how long they have left in which to knit them. People
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  • Notes from Sandi: Today, continuing our series on domino knitting, we have a post from Vivian Høxbro sharing more tips and tricks for this fun technique. Vivian is the author of the new Interweave book on domino knitting, Knit to Be Square , which
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  • Note from Sandi: I've heard that a lot of people have fallen in love with Pam Allen's Fresco Fair Isle Mitts (see the photo? Pretty!) in the new Fall issue of Knits . I think it's the soft colors waving across the back of the hand, with the
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  • Winter Twilight Mitts by Laura Rintala I have never made fingerless mitts before. And, I really never had any intention of making any, until this past winter when the temperatures dipped, unseasonably for our area, and days and days of cold weather seeped
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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
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  • I recently had to give up coffee. Completely. No decaf, no low-acid stuff, just cold turkey on that lovely, hot, rich, amazing beverage. Can you hear my whimpering from where you are? In giving up the Wonder Brew, I discovered that part of the magic of
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  • 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land Every knitter was knitting, quite fast, with both hands. New socks off the needles hung chimney-side there, In hopes that they'd dry—just soon enough to wear. The kitties snuggled purring
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  • Ann Budd's Broken Cable Rib Socks I don't have any magic words to help you get all your holiday knitting done on time. (Sorry about that.) However, I do have a nifty little grafting tip for those of you, who like me, completely and utterly despise
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  • Me, at Sunny Rock B&B I am back from Canada, and instead of being a respite from my work, the trip allowed me to re-connect with the joy behind what I do for a living. I am a professional knitter; I am a professional writer-about-knitting; knitting
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