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    Handwoven Baby Blankets
    Handwoven Baby Blankets
    Handwoven Baby Blankets
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    Handwoven Baby Blankets

    By Tom Knisely

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    What better way to welcome that precious, tiny new person than with a luxurious, handwoven blanket! These beautiful, colorful designs will appeal to today's contemporary moms, as well as lovers of traditional weaves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStackpole Books
    Release dateNov 15, 2015
    ISBN9780811762793
    Handwoven Baby Blankets

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      Handwoven Baby Blankets - Tom Knisely

      This book is dedicated to my granddaughter, Windsor Sara Bixler. You came into my life during unsettling times. You righted my sails and steadied this old ship during the storm and I am forever grateful. You slowed me down and moved me in new directions and have taken me places that I would have never ventured. Thank you, Windsor. I believe that God, the Universe, or something larger and greater than myself brought you to me at just the right time. I stand in awe and ponder how this all works.

      Take my hand, little Windsor … we have a long journey to travel together and I have a lot to show and teach you.

      Contents

      Introduction: Oh, Baby!

      Part 1 THE BASICS

      1 How Large? How Small?

      2 What Colors Should I Use?

      3 What Materials Are Best for Baby?

      4 Finishing Your Baby Blanket

      5 A Word about the Projects

      Part 2 THE BLANKETS

      4-Shaft Patterns

      Pretty in Pink (Plain Weave)

      Irish Meadows (Broken Twill)

      Tutti Frutti (Basket Weave)

      Springtime (Plain Weave)

      Carson’s Blanket (Rose Path Twill)

      A Tartan for Scotty McGee (Twill)

      Berry Blanket (Dornick Twill Check)

      Down the Garden Path (Plain Weave)

      Up the Cherry Tree (Plain Weave)

      Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Canvas Weave)

      Huckleberry Huck (Huck Lace)

      Sweet as a Grape on the Vine (Twill)

      Fortune Cookie (Overshot)

      Stars and Roses (Overshot)

      Fit for Queen or King (Plain Weave)

      Goosey Gander’s Eye (Shadow Weave) and Goosey Gander’s Chevron (Shadow Weave)

      Rainbow (Plain Weave)

      Rose Garden (Rose Path Twill)

      Diamonds in the Sky (Bronson Lace)

      Sherbet (Bird’s Eye Twill)

      8-Shaft Patterns

      Summer and Winter Blocks (Summer and Winter)

      Citrus Drop (Turned Twill)

      Pink and Blue and Mossy Too (Turned Twill)

      Of Snakes and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails (Undulating Twill)

      Caramel Corn (M’s and O’s)

      Sun Spots and Solar Flares (Huck Lace with Color and Weave Effects)

      Christening Blanket (Twill)

      Windsor’s Blanket (Advancing Twill)

      It’s a Boy! (Basket Weave)

      For William or Mary (M’s and W’s)

      Star of Bethlehem (Overshot)

      Blue Blocks (Double Weave)

      Into the Woods (Point Twill)

      Afterword: Notes from a Photographer and Weaver of Baby Blankets

      Acknowledgments

      Resources

      Visual Index

      INTRODUCTION

      Oh , Baby!

      Windsor Sara Bixler

      It’s instinctive to wrap a baby in a nice warm baby blanket, don’t you think?

      I remember it like it was yesterday. When my children were born, the nurses cleaned the girls up and wrapped them tightly in warm pink cotton blankets. What a thrill to see them! (When I think back on it now, each time it was sort of like holding a grande pink burrito with the most beautiful little face coming out from the end.)

      Is she all right? I would ask the nurse. This blanket seems a little tight and she can’t move much, I said.

      The attending nurse would reassure me that she was indeed fine and to think for a moment where the baby had been for the past forty weeks. Not exactly a spacious park! Of course, the nurse was right. Our baby was content and seemed perfectly happy to be put back into a small, warm Windsor Sara Bixler environment.

      So flash forward several years.

      When I heard that my daughter Sara and her husband Dustin where expecting, I decided to make them a baby blanket. This is just what a weaver does, right? Well, commitments of work and writing my first book on rag rugs interfered. The weeks passed and soon we were presented with a beautiful granddaughter named Windsor.

      So here I am with stacks of rag rugs woven for the book—and no baby blanket. Well, did I feel terrible? Of course I did. But I reminded myself that not every child born has a relative that weaves. Fortunately, Miss Windsor was gifted a number of beautiful blankets that blurred the fact that her grandfather had not woven her a special blanket of his own. And besides, there will be plenty of time to weave a blanket for Windsor. Maybe a blanket better suited for a toddler, or a blanket for an older child who wants to cuddle up with someone he or she loves for story time.

      Blankets aren’t just for

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