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The photo shows some of the blankets. My sample bag had twice this many, but you can only get so many in one photo. I hope this book will become one of your favorites, because it has a bunch of projects and some fun, different techniques.

A baker's dozen blanket designs are included with this book and DVD combo:

Fold-Over Edged Blankie - for virtually any machine in any gauge, this one's a simple little thing you could have a beginner do as a very first project. The big trick here is the edging, a simple tucked strip that you sew around the edges, hiding ends and making your blanket lie flat. (Try this edge around a neckline!)

Baby Quillow - a "quilt" and folds into a "pillow," a fun introduction to quilted stitch using your ribbing attachment. This is a good one for standard and bulky gauge machines with a ribber and patterning device for knitters who want to try something quite different.

Panels and Cables Blanket requires only a single bed machine. Put your panels together with a contrasting

cable stitch, edge the blanket, and you're finished. Beginners can do this one, too, and it makes one of the best full-sized adult afghans if you want to enlarge it. For standard, mid-gauge, and bulky machines.

Short-Rowed Pinwheel Blanket for standard, mid-gauge, and bulky machines. This only requires a main bed. You'll be surprised how quickly you can knit a sizeable, circular colorful blanket. Skill rating? Easy.

Multicolored Tuck Stitch Blanket - Here's a great blanket with no ribber and no patterning device required, also an easy one. As I've shown these blankets to knitters, this is the most-requested pattern. I've included instructions for standard, mid-gauge, and bulky machines, instructions for doing it fast with a patterning device, and instructions for making the stitch by moving the needles by hand.

Circular Swirl Blanket - this old favorite came back, and I dressed it up, featuring it for bulky and standard gauge, and filmed it on the standard gauge with a very unusual, optional circular ruffle trim made using your ribber. You can make this blanket with our without a ribber, though.

Long Stitch Blanket for standard and bulky machines does require a ribber to make the simple, built-in edging that lies beautifully flat. You need to learn this edging! You'll find lots of other uses for it.

Racked Ripple Blanket requires a machine with patterning and a ribber to knit a fascinating, puffy "ripple" stitch. I tried this one with scraps, doing a zigzag stripe of each color and also with a planned color scheme.

Reversible English Rib Blanket is for both bulky and standard gauge machines with a ribber. This warm, versatile pattern stitch can be whipped up quickly. Once you bind off and hide your starting and ending yarn ends, you're finished.

Honeycomb Blanket for standard gauge machines with a ribbing attachment uses the very popular honeycomb tuck stitch to produce a thick, thermal blanket. You may ask, why so many ribber blankets? Again, it's because when they come off the machine, you hide a couple yarn ends, and you're finished!. They're all thick, warm and gorgeous. Besides, I want you to enjoy using your ribber more. ;)

Fisherman Rib Checked Blanket utilizes the patterning device to have blocks of fisherman rib and blocks of plain ribbing, plus a plain ribbed edging for a terrific, professional-looking fast project. I like all these tucked rib blankets best on the standard gauge machine for babies, but try them on your bulky for luxurious blankets for adults and older children!

Waffles Baby Blanket and Wiggles Baby Blanket - two more terrific thermal ribber blankets. Waffles doesn't require patterning and can be hand-manipulated. Wiggles stitch is really similar, but uses patterning to add some variation and make the process more automatic.

If you've purchased my products before, you know that I do full-color books with lie-flat coil bindings, include plenty of photos, avoid abbreviations, and use clear diagrams.

The book and DVD come as a set for $25 plus shipping. This DVD contains three hours, twenty minutes of high definition video, that looks crisp and clear even on a humongous television screen, showing how to do the techniques, detailed, up-close views.

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The new Footnotes book is finally finished and available!

Slippers are just wonderful to knit for gifts. These are quick, inexpensive projects, personal and homey like apple pie and grandma hugs.

So, what's in the book? Well, I have five slippers, all with 12 sizes apiece (children, women, men), and most of them in three gauges - standard gauge, mid-gauge, and bulky gauge.

No-Sew Slipper

I did my usual charts where you pick out the color for your size and follow that column. In addition, I have narrative explanations of the techniques and a section with Kitchener and mattress stitch seams. The standard gauge slippers are knitted with typical hand knitting sock yarn; the mid-gauge ones use sport weight yarn, and the bulky ones, worsted weight yarn. Odds and ends from your knitting stash can become cute small projects.

The first pattern is the "no sew" lined slipper, which comes off the machine all assembled. This slipper is a nice, smooth fit and absolutely addictive to knit. My knit club made bunches of them for charity, and I selfishly pulled a few out of my pile to give to loved ones.

The Moc

The second pattern is a cute little mocassin complete with a rather sentimental story about how it is a variation on the first pattern I ever wrote. Teaching someone to knit? This one has a hem, an eyelet row, an idiot cord, short-rowing, and even a bit of sew-as-you-go edging, truly an interesting little pattern to make up.

Quick And Cozy

For ribber fans and high-volume charity knitters, I have an English Rib slipper, the Quick and Cozy Slipper, that knits up super fast and is warm. The Knit Natters made heaps of these for the soldiers.

The last pattern is a sew-as-you-go slipper sock in bulky and sport weight yarn. But - if you want a regular short gym sock, make it up in regular sock yarn on your standard gauge! I did this sock a long time ago in a women's medium in a video, and folks have been asking for it in all the sizes since then, so finally, here it is in written form.

Felted Slipper

If you use wool to knit the last pattern two tensions too big and two sizes too big and then felt (shrink) it, you have the warmest, thickest slipper of all. In case you are hesitant to try felting, this is your chance to get your feet wet, literally. Try these incredible shrinking cuddlers on your feet while they are still wet!

The book is all in color, has lots of photos and diagrams, 32 pages, plastic spiral bound so it'll lie flat, as usual (that's what I like, so I'm sticking with it). The whole book is laid out the wide direction because of all the charts. There's also a detailed DVD, high-definition and close-up, showing how to do everything. There's no story, plot, scenery, or characters, just a long stream of up-close knitting techniques.

Don't forget to add some non-slip treatment to the soles. I just scribble a little silicone seal or puff paint on the bottoms for safety.

Many thanks to Tom Panciarello, who did testing and suggesting, the Knit Natters who are my most beloved guinea pigs, testing and suggesting, and my sweetie, John who proofread and helped with duplication.

The book and DVD sset is $25 plus shipping. Shipping of additional items in the same order is free.

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