Hello Knitters! I’ve got exciting news!
Another of my patterns was just published in the newest KnitPicks toys collection!
I love tiny things, and this collection really scratched that itch. All the patterns come in Large, Medium, and Itty-Bitty. So, of course the book is called Cute, Cuter, Cutest: Knit Toys to Love in 3 Sizes!
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There are some fantastic patterns in the book. I love the raccoons, especially. And the dinosaurs are too freaking cute! (I mean, come on. Who doesn’t like multi-colored dinosaurs?)
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But, I have to toot my own horn a bit, here. I am just in love with my little Human Beans!
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They’re a family of fully-customizable little dolls in three sizes. The pattern gives instructions on making any outfit you like- long sleeves, short sleeves, pants, skirts, or shorts. And the tops can be stripey or decorated with a heart or star emblem. I couldn’t be happier with how they turned out!
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Do you want a copy of Cute, Cuter, Cutest: Knit Toys to Love in 3 Sizes? (Yes, you do.) Post below and tell me about your favorite childhood toy to enter a drawing for a free copy of the book! (I’ll pick a winner next Friday, so don’t wait!)
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After 40 years my mom is moving to a new place. She’s been sorting boxes for months now, every time she finds something especially sentimental she sends me a photo of her ‘treasures’. This week it’s been my favorite baby blanket, a few baby teeth that she kept and the only dress my sister would wear as a toddler. It made me think of my favorite stuffie, a sheep, named Lambikins, that mom’s childhood babysitter crocheted for me when I was born. Amigurumi before it was even a thing! Mom hasn’t found Lambikins yet but she’s on the hunt for her next treasure! I can’t wait for her to find it! It’s going to be a very sweet reunion!
Your post is also timely because I just finished the first knit toy I’m actually proud of! I’ve avoided that sort of knitting for so long…but I’m hooked now! No more sweaters for babies…I’m all about the cute knit toys from now on! 🙂
I had two favorites, a 4′ tall ‘rag’ doll named Sophia and a3′ long stuffed dog that I slept with, well, until my husband and his dog came in to my life.
Congrats on the pub! Cutest isn’t enough– cutealicious, perhaps?
Gorgeous patterns! The people are lovely! My favourite childhood toy was a bunny rabbit teddy called Bunny Girl. She is a grey rabbit with long ears, a blue dress and a white apron. I would take her on every holiday and when I went away. I love this bunny and she sits on the shelf next to my bed. I’ve had her 25 years! Thanks for the giveaway ❤
Congratulations!
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Barbies were probably my favorites, and I remember my grandma making sweaters for them out of sparkly black yarn. So fashionable!
My favorite toy was little pink elephant I named Ella. I’m still have her!
AIEEEEE help! So cute!! My favorite childhood toy was a yellow blanket with silk edging and an applique of Winnie-The-Pooh in one corner. I called Mokey. I still have it in my dresser drawer.
I just got my new Knit Picks catalog in the mail and this book was irresistible. Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite childhood toy was a particular Hot Wheels car called Rocket Bye Baby (http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091024051018/hotwheels/images/5/52/Rocket_Bye_Baby_Aqua.JPG). I called it Rocket and it had so many adventures in the cities we would make with Hot Wheels track and our basket of wooden geometric blocks.
I loved Hot Wheels, too! But my brother and I never had any that looked that cool- probably because it was the 80’s and early 90’s, and everything was neon.
I had a large stuffed dog. It was big enough to be a pillow for my head, a “horse” for riding while watching cartoons, and a cuddle-buddy. And 50 yrs later, I just found him in my attic! Unfortunately, he had not survived years of +100 degrees, and practically disintegrated in my hands.
Your book looks awesome, and just I need to for inspiration for the toys I knit to give away at Christmas through a local charity called “Knitzvah”.
So sweet! I had a plush toy snake when I was a kid in the late 70’s. I made a little hat and cape for him and his name was “Sir Hiss” from the character in Disney’s “Robin Hood” animated film.
Love the Human Beans! My favorite was a Little Orphan Annie doll handmade doll that I carried around forever, slept with, everything. I cried whenever she had to be washed!
My favorite toy was a rag doll. Her name was “Plain Jane”.
I was born and raised in Turkey and my favorite childhood toy was a redhead doll called Aysegul. I named her Aysegul because she was my favorite book character.
Cutest cuddlies ever! Would love to try out the ones in this new book, especially the human beans! I had a darling hand knit penguin my Grandmother made me that I am trying to find a similar pattern to knit for my grandchildren.
Hi! Love this pattern book. Those animals(“beans”) are just too cute. Would love to enter your give-a-way My favorite childhood toy was a stuffed Siamese cat I called Sybil. I still have Sybil…she is 50 years old!!
My favorite toy? My brothers’ legos. 🙂
Awesome! Legos are the best!
congrats on the pattern–the Human Beans are adorable! I think I’ll have to knit some up as gifts 🙂 my favorite childhood toy was this totally ratty doll that came with me everywhere. I cannot remember her name (funny, that!) but she had freckles and I sooo identified with her. Best of luck with the new book and upcoming patterns!
My favorite childhood toy was a stuffed dog that was so loved that his “fur” got rubbed off and my mom replaced it (many times) with pieces of old pillowcases so his stuffing wouldn’t fall out 🙂
My mom did the same thing! I had a Snoopy doll I would drag around on a string, and the nose would get worn out. You can tell the year in old photos by what color his nose was.
i had a lambie my mom gave me when i was little that i slept with every night. I still have it, although my 2 boxers got hold of it once and i had to sew lambies face back together, so he is not looking so great anymore..
My favorite toy were the Liddle Kiddle dolls. I loved playing with those tiny dolls!
A brown bear that lays on her stomach named Brown Bear. My dad was selling her in his shop when I was 6 and I loved her so much I’d spend the whole time talking to her when I’d go after school. Everyday I was so afraid that someone would have bought her that my dad finally gave her to me.
Love the smile-generating stuffies! My favorite childhood toy was a Tiny Tears doll. My mother sewed clothes for it and my grandmother crocheted clothes and accessories. I had the best dressed doll ever!
My favorite toy as a kid was my Pippi Longstocking doll. I played with her until she fell apart!
My great-graddaughter would love these! She is two and absolutely loves to play with little soft dolls.
My brother and I played with toy cars under the oak trees and made roads in the dirt to drive them around.
Long ago and far away, my favorite toy was a black stuffed dog named Mimi so named because these were the words I said when given it. It was stuffed with straw and the last time I saw it, the straw was coming out at the seams and the fur was well-loved off in many spots.
My favourite was an elephant given to me by my father and I still have it but it is extremely threadbare now, some sixty years later!
My favorite toy was actually two. They were my Raggedy Ann and Andy. My grandma made them for me for Christmas when I was five. When I opened them she got out her needle and thread and embroidered the I love you heart on them. They now sit in my craft room watching me create just like grandma.
Teddy, the teddy bear (of course) and Rufus the lion.
When I was young, I had a little stuffed bluebird. He was very soft, which I loved, but more than that, it was the fact that my dad had won him at a carnival and given him to me. I loved that little bird so much, he even made it into the bathtub with me once! Thanks for the giveaway!
Really like the patterns! My favorite stuffed toy was a Raggedy Anne made by a neighbor of my grandmother. Orange-red yarn for hair but cloth body and clothes.
Favorite is hard – but I did have a ridiculously cool doll that my mom made for me, along with an entire wardrobe of clothes! And those dinosaurs are killing me with the cute.
I had a monkey that played cymbals! I loved monkeys and even entered every free monkey contest I could find, I was hugely disappointed when my mom told me years later that she never mailed my entry forms ! I can’t imagine why ?! Lol
Smart mom!
my favorite was a Raggedy Ann doll 😍 kOVE your new book and would love to make the human beans for my new granddaughter!
I had two small stuffed puppy dogs that I named Handy and Jokey after my favourite Smurfs! I took them everywhere!
Love the ideas in the book! I make toys (we call them monsters) for TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) which supports families who’ve lost a military member in action. Young and old love them, and your Human Beans would fit right in! Plus they’d be good for other charity projects, too!
One of my most memorable toys was a 6-foot long stuffed snake named Slinky. He was royal blue. I think I wore him out!
Thanks for a chance to win! And congratulations!
My favorite toy as a child was a baby doll that I named Emma. My daughter, who is two, now gets to enjoy Emma as well.
My favorite childhood toy was a pink teddy beat. When I was a teenaget, one of my mom’s friends ran from an abusive husband with her children. Mom asked us if we could go through our toys and give some of them to these poor kids. I gave my teddy bear yo that llittle girl. She needed it more than I did.
I had a raggety old Winnie the Pooh bear who had been sewn up so many time that he really didn’t even look like Winnie the Pooh. I kept that dirty ole bear on my bed until my parents moved to a new house when I was 21. Unfortunately when I unpacked at the new house my poor ole pooh had gone missing :-(. I cried ;-(. he was never found, but I did get a brand new pooh bear that year for Christmas, but it just wasn’t the same. I love your Human Beans too!!!
Favorite childhood toy–ice skates–around and around the pond we would go!
When I was a child I was in a car accident and the medics gave me a stuffed velvet bear that I named Nicki, after one of my babysitters. I played with it for so long, over 7 years, and it never ripped or was stained. I still have it and it’s still as soft. Your dinosaurs are wicked cute, I love the fact that they look like the stackable rings for babies, with their primary color ways ♥
I had a variety of favorite toys when I was small but one that I still have and remember fondly is a cat that my great grandmother made with yarn; it isn’t knitted but made by stringing the yarn together into puffs.
I always had a ton of stuffed animals around. I would arrange them on my bed after I woke up in the morning. My favorite had to be an old stuffed kangaroo. It was my mother’s from when she was a kid. The stuffing inside was so hard; I wouldn’t be surprised if it was sawdust. It wasn’t great to snuggle with, but it was my favorite, and always sat right in the middle of my other animals.
My favorite toy was my duckie blanket. It was a beautiful appliqué baby quilt with a large mother duck that had a pouch that you could stick her baby duck in. I slept with it through college into my mid 20s. I still have it but it is put away.
My favorite toy that I still have 60 years later was a cow..and you turned him upside down and it would moo. Cute patterns!
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My grandma gave all of her grandchildren a teddy bear that was knitted..he had a grey head and feet and a striped sweater and plain pants….over the years my mom made teddy nolan(that was his name) a new sweater and pants that went over his old outfit,because years ago(73 years to be exact) he was stuffed with kapok and that disintegrates with age….but he has been hugged and loved and two years ago I made him a new body new clothes(knitted of course)and gave him to my youngest granddaughter because she loved him so much…..I was the only grandchild that kept their teddy,so teddy Nolan has a new lease on “life”because teddy was made in London England and has travelled to the U.S with me and now lives in America