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Book Review – Happy Gloves

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Happy Gloves by Miyako Kanamori RRP $13.95 US

This book review came to me from Penguin Books Australia and what a joy it was to receive it in the mail.

The title of this book is Happy Gloves, Charming Softy friends made from colorful gloves. Charming is the perfect description for this fun little critters like the Chipmunk shown below.

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The book has a quirky story book style at the beginning that introduces you to the softy friend patterns with hand drawn sketches and photos of the completed projects.

The patterns include step by step sketched tutorials and covers everything from Lions to flowers and even a little tea pot and cup for a total of 21 different projects all made from Gloves!!!

This book is available from the 31st of August in Australia RRP $19.95

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If you’re looking for a sweater knitting pattern that uses up some of your stash and allows you to make just the sweater you want, the Marlina Rib by Shay Johson might be just the thing.

It’s worked with two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight gauge, so you can use the same two yarns throughout or change one or both regularly for an even more colorful look.

The pattern has options to make it either a crewneck or a henley style with buttons, tapered or relaxed sleeves, and a straight hemline or a split hem with buttons (which sounds so cute if you do the henley with split hem and match the buttons on both parts).

It’s also knit from the top down so you can make the body and the sleeves as long as you want. There are 10 sizes available in the pattern, with a chest circumference ranging from 32 to 68 inches, or 81.5 to 172.5 cm. It’s meant to be worn with 4-6 inches/10-15 cm of positive ease at the chest.

The pattern page on Ravelry includes tons of measurements and yardage estimates so you can make sure you’ll get a good fit for your body before you even buy the pattern. Shay also shows a few variations of the sweater so you can see how different options look before you decide how you want to put them together.

The stitch pattern is 1×2 ribbing, which is really easy to do and gives a look almost like fisherman’s rib that’s relaxed and easy to wear.

This sweater looks like a great option for people who are somewhat new to sweater knitting or those who love to have lots of customization options (because it’s like getting multiple sweater patterns in one!).

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself at Ravelry.

[Photo: Shay Johnson]