Kids' Country Knits [Paperback]

Debbie Bliss (Author)

Book Description

More than 30 original patterns for newborns through age 5

Debbie Bliss
Kids’ Country Knits

In this all-new and adorable collection, renowned knitwear designer Debbie Bliss presents a colorful array of sweaters, smocks, slippers, hats, booties, and soft toys, all in the spirit of a farmyard jamboree. Complete with full step-by-step instructions and charts designed for all skill levels, and a full-color photograph of each finished project, the patterns feature traditional country favorites including ducklings, lambs, cows, geese, piglets, chicks, and hens, along with American folk-art designs. All of the projects feature the hand-crafted details and practical wearability that make Bliss’s designs the perennial favorites of kids and knitters alike.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Debbie Bliss is the author of the enormously popular Baby Knits as well as New Baby Knits, Kids’ Knits for Heads, Hands and Toes, Nursery Knits, Teddy Bears, Toy Knits, Baby Style, and Quick Baby Knits. She lives in England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (September 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312098375
• ISBN-13: 978-0312098377
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #370,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #15 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Expert Advice > Debbie Bliss

More About the Author

Debbie Bliss is the foremost knitwear designer for children. With a string of bestselling titles to her name, she regularly tours the US, Canada and other countries, giving lectures and doing workshops and has her own Debbie Bliss branded yarn range which is sold worldwide. Debbie lives in London with her husband and two children. Her website is www.debbiebliss.freeserve.co.uk.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This may be my Debbie Bliss Favorite!, October 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kids' Country Knits (Paperback)

I LOVE this book. As a mother of two small children, a boy and a girl, I am always looking for books that have many cute options for either gender. Not only does this book have that, but I find this collection to be extraordinary. There is a duck all-in-one that is SO cute, barnyard animals to knit and the most adorable cow, pig and hen slippers that you could ever find. I love Debbie Bliss' other books as well, but this one is probably my all time favorite. Many of the knits are done in primary or other vivid colors and involve intarsia knitting. But even if you don't love intarsia there will be cute options for you (fair isle, texture knitting). I am really glad that I decided to splurge on yet another Debbie Bliss book - it has been well worth it!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Debbie Bliss is THE kid's knit designer, March 26, 2001

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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Country Knits (Paperback)

A friend of mine has a cute 2 year old and she knit the barnyard duck sweater for him. (This kid was leaning out of his stroller at 3 months of age, waiting to see the ducks on the river that runs through the center of town. He'd go wild when he saw them. Unbelievable. )

The slippers are so cute, you want to wear them too.

My only caution is that to get these darling designs, you need to knit intarsia. This is the method where you use a small bobbin or ball of color for the design patches and you do not strand as you do with fair-isle type knitting. That takes some practice. There are some good instruction books available to help you learn this useful and gorgeous technique.

Don't let fear of intarsia stop you. These sweaters are small projects because they are kiddie-sized and boy are they EVER cute. Enjoy.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good patterns -- bad book design, January 27, 2006

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Lynn Foss "KnitterDesigner" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Country Knits (Paperback)

This book has adorable, as-yet-untried-by-me, knitting patterns, but one of the worst designs I have seen. The front of the book has lovely photos of each pattern clumped together with text on them in big letters which gives the name of the design and "See Page such and such," which, in many cases fade into the photo. The bigger problem arises when you are looking at the pattern, which tells you the number of the page of the photo -- but the photo pages are not paginated at all which makes that useless and makes you have to count backwards from the first pattern page (page 36).