Knit leaf coaster pattern from the book The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting by Margaret Hubert

It's Thursday and that means Question day with a book Giveaway. The book is The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting and today you get a free knit leaf coaster pattern from the jam-packed book of knitting fabulousness! Leave your answer to today's question in the comments section of today's post by Midnight ET on Thursday, September 2, 2010:

What is your favorite leaf (real or crafted)?

Mine are Dusty Miller with a close second being fall maple leaves. The Dusty Miller because I love the idea of a leaf being so soft and fuzzy. The fall maple leaves just because the color range is just spectacular.

If you prefer to knit yours, here's a great pattern for knit leaves that I think would look great in green (as they are here) or in fall colors!

Click on the images to read the full pattern and instructions on how to knit a leaf coaster.

 

This great knitting project is from the comprehensive new book:

The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting

by

Margaret Hubert

*All You Need to Know to Knit *The Essential Reference for Novice and Expert Knitters *Packed with Hundreds of Crafty Tips and Ideas *Step-by-Step Instructions and Photos for 200 Stitch Patterns

This volume is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of knitting. It's a reference for all knitting techniques, beginning with the basics of how to knit. A large section of the book is devoted to showing different stitch patterns, arranged in style categories for easy reference. Special knitting topics are explored in depth: cables, intarsia, entrelac, Fair Isle knitting, and lace knitting. A whole section is devoted to yarns: fibers, how they are spun, gauge, and how to choose.

Margaret Hubert designs for yarn companies and book and magazine publishers including Crochet, Interweave Press, Quick and Easy Crochet, Crochet Fantasy, and Belle Armoire. She teaches at yarn shops, retreats, and national gatherings and rarely misses a national conference in the needle arts field. Among her specialties, she is a master at free-form crochet and knitting. She is the author of 11 other books including five books in Creative Publishing international’s Hooked series, Knits for Men, Plus Size Crochet, Knit or Crochet–Have It Your Way, and The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet.

Comments

[Bonney]

Looks like a very helpful book! My favorite leaf is the red maple leaf. And I have to mention that I love the crush the "leaves" of any pine tree to release that wonderful scent.

[Joan]

Nice looking book...I like maple leaves, both red and green and also oak leaves...they are the most abundant in my area of PA. The kids use them in school alot also for different projects like tracing and making other crafts.

[Anita Themer]

I love the Ginko leaf. It is beautiful. And they stay on the tree forever and then drop all at once as a beautiful blanket.

[Sara Denbo]

Any knitted leaf pattern is what I like! Thank you for the great giveaway opportunity. I also love Margaret Hubert!

[Mary Furman]

Oak leaves are my very favorite!

[Isabel]

goodness- which is your favourite child? favourite leaf is probably aralia

[Jackie]

My favorite leaves are maple and birch.

[MelodyJ]

My favorite real leaf is maple. My favorite crafted leaf is the glass bead leaves that artisians make for jewelry making.

melodyj(at)gmail(dot)com

[Sally]

My favorite leaf is fern. I love how they emerge in a tight spiral and unfurl to reveal their beauty. I also love the fall colors of Maple leaves.

[Susan]

My favorite leaves are hosta and coleus, which both do well in the shaded area around my front door.

[Ellen Mahar]

I love the Ginko leaf, but hate the fruit. Next would be the fern and maple.

[wen]

Looks like a fabulous book - thanks for the chance to win a copy! My favorite leaf would have to be the leaves of the lotus flower.

[Mary Anne]

Another great looking book! As for my favourite leaf - I would have to say the african violet or an oak (quite a range!!).

[Cindy W.]

Leaf would have to be the Ginko. Looks like a nice book. Thanks for the chance to win one.

[Birgit]

My favorite leaf? Definitely a maple leaf'! :)

Thanks for the chance to win that awesome book.

-- Birgit

[Barbara-Kay]

My sentimental favorite is elm, from the elm tree that was larger than our big old house. Dutch elm disease has made them vanish, sadly.

[Cynthia]

Ginko leaf is probably my type favorite, but I was sent a Bodhi leaf from India by a Buddhist monk who had visited our university. It is my favorite, particular leaf. :)

[pdxknitterati/MicheleLB]

Maple and Aspen! In fall colors, but I'm definitely not ready for them to turn color here yet.

[Sue Leassner]

I like Oak Leaf Hydrangeas. They're so big.

[Suella]

My favorite leaf is the variegated acer. But I also love the purple beech tree leaves.

[Eileen]

Thank you for sharing the directions for these cute knitted coasters.

Do ferns count? I love them for their frilly lacy looks.

[Kitten With A Whiplash]

I love the really enormous Elephant Ear plants, with leaves several feet long and wide. They're so primeval looking.

This book would be so helpful for a visual learner like myself. Thanks for the giveaway.

[One Sheep]

As a kid in the sixties I had several terrariums. I would always iclude one of those cute Polka Dot plants that has dark green leaves with pink spots. This is a wonderful book, thanks for the chance to win a copy.

[Debby Sales-Hames]

The leaf of the Japanese Maple is my favorite, so light and delicate