Sunny's Mittens: Learn to Knit Lovikka Mittens [Spiral-bound]

Robin Hansen (Author), Lois Leonard Stock (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1990 | Age Level: 9 and up

Sunny's first knitting project -- a scarf -- is so boring that she never bothers to finish it. But when she wears holes in her mittens, her grandmother decides that Sunny should learn to knit something fun and useful: Swedish Lovikka mittens! They're soft, exceptionally warm, and knit up quickly. In just a few days, Sunny has a new pair of beautiful wooly mittens: worked in the round, felted and brushed to fuzzy softness, and charmingly decorated with simple embroidery.

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About the Author

Robin Hanson, mitton maker par excellence, is well knonw to kniteers across the United States and Canada. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Spiral-bound: 48 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892722908
• ISBN-13: 978-0892722907
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,889,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Useful, May 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sunny's Mittens: Learn to Knit Lovikka Mittens (Spiral-bound)

This book taught my sister and I how to knit. My sister still wears the mittens she knit from it, almost ten years later. The mittens are surprisingly easy to make but still really cool. It's aimed at children but I have bought this book for (adult) friends who wanted to learn how to knit.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kid's Instruction with great story, January 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sunny's Mittens: Learn to Knit Lovikka Mittens (Spiral-bound)

This is a great idea for teaching kids to knit. It is a story of a young girl and her grandmother. In the story the grandmother teaches Sunny to knit mittens. The story integrates instructions into the storyline. It really is quite cleaver.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to Double-Point Needles for Anyone, January 2, 2007

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This review is from: Sunny's Mittens: Learn to Knit, Lovikka Mittens (Paperback)

As an adult, I used this book to learn how to knit with double-points. After making 3 pairs of these mittens, with the larger size needles, I was able to tackle a basic sock pattern using size 3 needles. Whenever anyone asks about learning to use double-points, I always recommend this book as a good starting point. I'm happy to find it in print again, so I don't have to loan my daughter my original copy - I'm sentimentally attached to it!