Craft books 2

Hello

A few weeks ago I posted about a recent purchase I'd made of three craft books. I thought I would share with you another craft book I have - this one a knitting book, and here it is....

The Knitted Home by Sian Brown.
(Coincidentally it has the same title as one of the books in my previous post.)
Look at the cute little green basket by the side of the chair.

 This book was a Christmas present from my eldest son a couple of years ago. I gave him a list of books I'd like and let him choose one to buy - he told me he chose this one because he thought I could knit things for our home.

I love the throw pictured below - those cables look so chunky!

As I said in my previous post, I don't often make things from my craft books - I prefer instead to browse through them and use them for inspiration, but I was determined to make something from this book.

Not long after I received this book we bought some new bedroom furniture and I decided the dressing table desperately needed some mats to protect the surface. Then I noticed the pattern for the placemats below - look at the stitch definition on those mats!

So I decided I would knit a placemat and use it on my dressing table.....

...and here is the result.

My crochet edging is a little ruffled but I'm generally happy with the result.

(The little tin was a gift from my daughter - she brought it back from a skiing holiday with school - she knew I'd love the design and colours of it - and she was right!)

And as I was happy with the result I made another one, this time edging it with green.

 Unusually for me, I even used the yarn that they used in the book, which is Patons DK 100% cotton. I have fallen in love with this yarn.  I am using it to crochet my stripey blanket which I have posted about here and here. So the green and pink yarn edging my mats are the same green and pink in the blanket pictured below, so it will all match.... once the blanket is finished.

 Other tempting patterns in the book include this throw knitted in a very smooth yarn, so different to the chunky throw above.

And we all love this large cushion with larger-than-life leaves (the colours are much brighter in the book than in this photo)

And this is the photo on the back cover - a pile of yarny goodies!!

I wonder which are your favourite craft books.

Wishing you a happy weekend - an extra long one for those of us in the UK!

xXx

(Please note: this is not a paid advert, it is just my review of a book on my shelf)