Quick Knit Baby Toys by Juliette Michelet

I remember making these as a child! Easy and fun, these 20 dolls include animals and people in a wide range of colourful designs.

Fabulous small projects are suited to all skill levels and perfect for using up any oddments of yarn. Choose from one of the simpler designs like the very simple Baby and Bird patterns, through to more complicated patterns such as the King and the Fox.

Each toy is knitted flat as a rectangle shape, then stitched into a tube shape before being stuffed and closed. Any embroidery details on the clothes are added at this point. The arms, head and waist as well as features such as ears and antlers are then defined with some clever stitching and there are step-by-step instructions and photographs showing how to do this. There are also instructions for how to pick up stitches from the initial ‘tube’ of knitting in order to create clothing details such as skirts, ruffles and frills.

Common embroidery stitches such as satin stitch, French knots and stem stitch add details to the clothes as well as creating the faces, and there are templates for these designs with instructions for how to transfer them to the clothing. There are also step-by-step instructions and diagrams for all the embroidery stitches used.

It's a lovely book and a great way for new knitters to build on basic skills.

Softcover
80 pages
193x263 mm