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Booties, Blankets & Bears
20 Irresistible Hand Knits for Your Baby
Debbie Bliss
Booties, Blankets & Bears is a charming collection of nursery essentials that
will delight every new parent and their baby. Based around a trio of core baby
items – booties, blankets and teddy bears – that no nursery should be without
in baby’s first year, Debbie Bliss has designed a range of nursery accessories,
cuddly toys and first garments. Combining the softest luxury yarns with irresistible
designs, Debbie has created a truly desirable collection of hand knits for the
newborn baby.
A snug blanket is a must-have baby accessory, so in this book Debbie has included
a choice of seven different styles. The Sampler Blanket is a true heirloom piece:
knitted in a wonderful variety of stitch textures and then embroidered with
baby’s initials and birth date, it would make an ideal christening gift. The
Hooded Blanket gives the conventional baby blanket a clever twist – with some
simple shaping a length of knitting can be transformed into a cosseting wrap
that envelopes baby. Each project is a beautiful design in its own right, whilst
others can be made to accompany another project – for example, the garter stitch
Striped Blanket is a wonderfully simple yet effective piece to knit but to make
it extra special you can accompany it with the Striped Mouse. Likewise, you
could team the Blanket Stitch Blanket with the matching booties and toy bunny.
We all have an image in our minds of the ultimate teddy bear, with jointed limbs
and a sweet face, well Debbie has translated this much-loved child’s toy into
a simple knit. She has created an ingenious pattern that can be knitted up in
two different weights of yarn to make either Big Bear or Little Bear. The bear
theme is extended over other projects in the book, from a Bear Blanket that
uses a teddy motif to a Bear Rattle and Building Blocks, which are decorated
with numbers and stripes alongside the teddy motif.
144 pp • 9 x 9 • over 75 color photos, 60 color artworks • 978-1-57076-438-7
• hb • $23.95
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