My husband was trying to get an Amazon order up to $25 so he’d qualify for free shipping. He asked if I had anything I wanted to add to the order. While I was tempted to buy Knit Your Own Dog, I opted for something more practical:
That’s Nicky Eptsein’s Knitting Block by Block, a solid addition to my collection of reference books. There are some great things in here that will hopefully jump-start my designing momentum, which has been a bit stalled the last few months. For example, I love how this hat was made with blocks:
Here are some other blocks that contained some element (not necessarily exactly as shown) I could use in a new design:
But then there are some really…weird (um, yeah, let’s go with weird)…blocks.
Generally, though, I’m happy to have this in my collection and I expect to turn to it in future designs. Speaking of designs, today is the last day of my pattern sale fundraiser for Japan. 🙂