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Essential Baby: Over 20 Handknits to Take Your Baby from First Days to First Steps

Essential Baby: Over 20 Handknits to Take Your Baby from First Days to First Steps
By Debbie Bliss

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A complete knitwear collection for every new baby, this guide includes 20 must-have designs for babies ranging in age from zero to 18 months. Divided into three main sections—Coming Home, On the Go, and Downtime—the author has carefully considered the needs of any new parent and devised an assortment of essential projects for their newborn.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #149302 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 144 pages

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Review

"Presenting twenty-four patterns, Bliss offers some usual suspects—but knits up some surprises too. Stash this tome for your next baby boom."  —Vogue Knitting

 

 

About the Author

Debbie Bliss is one of the foremost designers of hand knits. She is the author of Debbie Bliss Home, Junior Knits, Simply Baby, and Special Knits.

Customer Reviews

over simplistic and derivative2
This is a disappointing book. On the positive side, the first portion of the book is dedicated to teaching knitting, from casting on to instructions on reading patterns. The explanations and accompanying graphics would be helpful to a complete newbie. However, all this information is available for free on knitting help websites and they have video.

The patterns are nice, but nothing spectacular nor even very creative. Garnstudio has a website which provides hundreds of free patterns for knitted baby items. You can find every one of the the 22 items in the book at that website or other sites, such as Knitty.

The photography for this book is quite lovely, but focuses on the baby rather than the project. The babies are adorable, but this is a book about knitting for babies, not babies in knits. Thus, we never see one blanket in it's entirety, just the bits which are visible while it is wrapped around the baby. The lace pattern on that blanket is given as text, with no accompanying chart.

Also, as with all knitting writers these day, Debbie Bliss has her own yarn line, so all the patterns call for her yarn, with no suggestions for substituting.

Debbie Bliss Does It Again5
Pure heirloom but easy to knit, not the usual run of the mill type of creation that most babies are wearing. Debbie Bliss really does rock as usual.

Best Baby Book5
If you're only going to buy one baby knitting pattern book this should be the one. Most of the patterns are winners including several adorable jackets and sweaters and the baby carrying bag which is easy to knit, adorable and impressive. I have yet to knit the bathrobe but it's next on my list. Simple but lovely patterns that are classic not trendy. I great buy.