🧶 Knit 50 Gifts for Every Occasion: All-Season Designs Using Universal Yarn Deluxe Worsted Review

I wasn't very impressed with this book. In fact I don't really like it and I'm going to return it to Revain. Many gifts are useless or stupid. Take figurines for Easter eggs, for example. These are small hats that are placed on the eggs. Yes! Why should I knit a miniature braided hat to attach an Easter egg? Then there is the chocolate bunny hat that looks like a bunny and should be a gift for a little boy. It looks really stupid. In addition, there are golf club covers that look like little…

What a great book. There are so many projects out there, some simple, some more complex, but none of them are overkill. These are schemes from knitting beginners to very experienced. The patterns are well written with good photos to really give an idea of what the project is about and what it should look like. A few reviewers have made snide comments about egg braids, but I just adore them as they bring back memories of my childhood. We often ate soft boiled eggs for breakfast, my mum put our…

I am disappointed with this book. My first project was a rabbit hat. This pattern was knitted in flat knit and turned out to be a complete failure. As I had already promised, I made another hat (having discarded the first one) in the round. It was much easier than knitting a flat knit with stitches and fitted better. The second pattern I made was egg tips. The 2nd RT instructions are for four stitches, but the setting is for two stitches. After making the adjustment, I made six hats pretty…