I thought I was doing pretty good when I cleaned up my desk a bit last week. Not that you’d notice as new yarns have been caked and patterns are printed and taking over that space again, but I tried. Anyway, I pulled out the yarn leftovers from finished projects and from stalled projects and brought it back to the main stashing area. In the bottom of a project bag, I found a book I’ve been meaning to review for a while along with a project I totally forgot about!
One-Skein Wonders for Babies includes 101 knitting patterns for infants and toddlers. This is a wonderful addition to the “One-Skein Wonders” series – the original One-Skein Wonders book and Sock-Yarn One Skein Wonders are already on my bookshelf.
The book is segmented by project type: Little Ensembles, Little Tops, Little Bottoms, Little Dresses, Little Hats, Little Socks & Bootees, Little Accessories, Little Blankets, Little Toys, and Little Miscellany. I thought the patterns were adorable, with a nice variety of stitch patterns and yarns. My favorite section is the Little Hats.
The Faux-Bow Baby Hat was a quick project in Kraemer Yarns Tatamy DK. I will certainly turn to this book for hat patterns when making hats for Pat-Pats Hats or the Little Hats, Big Hearts campaign. My kids are only getting bigger, so for many of these items they are a bit too big, but I like to know there are a variety of patterns I could use for gift giving!
The project I found tucked into the book was a Pop-Top Mitten I started for my son last December. Between last winter being mild, and my son’s preference for a pair of store-bought mittens, it is not terribly surprising that I didn’t finish. I am thinking about finishing the mitten and making the second one as something to donate. He’s still a little guy, but I am pretty sure these will be too small by the time we need them.
Unfortunately, not all the patterns from the book are up on Ravelry, so I would suggest that you pick up this book at your LYS or library and flip through it to see all the designs. One small point that I found curious was in a tip box about knitting baby blankets. The suggestion is made that the smallest useful size for a blanket is 24 x 30 inches. That’s all fine and good, but only 3 fit those dimensions. The other blankets are 19″ by 21″, 25″ square, 19.75″ square, and 19.5″ by 27″. This wouldn’t keep me from making any of the designs, but I might make a modification to upsize it a little.
