Product Description

With 65 adorable patterns for jumpers, trousers, dungarees, vests, coats, jackets, scarves, booties, hats and blankets, this book will soon make Junior the envy of all the other babies! Three sections make it easy to choose a distinctive look for babies from birth to twelve months: Cross-Country Babies, with designs featuring the colours and motifs of British, Irish and French folk traditions; Bright Babies, with patterns made up of bright, bold colours and Very Wise Babies, with cool updates of classic baby wear. Get Baby into something really chic (and fun to make!) with Chic Knits for Stylish Babies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50677 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Patricia Wagner is editor-in-chief of the leading French women's magazine Modes & Travaux, which features projects and practical information on fashion, crafts, cooking, health, and beauty. She lives in Paris, France.

Customer Reviews

Delightfully different
This book of baby knit designs completely enchanted me. The garments are helpfully arranged in "wardrobes," with each set containing some combination of trousers, overalls, pullovers, jackets, dresses, hats and boots. The photography is a treat for the eyes. The styles are definitely NOT what you see every day on babies; since the author and photographer are French, presumably the designs are too.

I found the directions clear and concise, well diagrammed, with charts where applicable. The designs are all tiny - mostly to 12 months size though a few to 18 months - so if you want to knit for a particular baby you'll need to get an early start. The book doesn't contain any knitting directions (I'm glad they filled it chock-full of adorable garments instead) and some of the patterns could be challenging for very new knitters. These are not drawbacks, as long as the buyer is aware that a certain knitting mojo may be needed to produce these eye-catching garments.

My first choice was the swing top from the "Perfect Little Girl" wardrobe. Much as I want to knit the rest of the pieces to go with it, the llama romper is claiming my attention next.

Infants probably don't care that much about looking stylish. But if you want to please yourself and some new parents or parents-to-be, there's sure to be something in this fantastic book that will send you running for your needles.

a word of warning
This book contains extremely chic, very French designs, probably more for the parents' gratificaton than the baby's and I fell in love with the chenille cat set only to discover after purchase of the book that the chenille wool, essential to the pattern has been discontinued by Phildar and there is no real substitute. Using google I was able to track down the only UK supplier of this and other Phildar yarns, Strands of Lanark who very fortunately had sufficient chenille yarn in stock....but that is a bit too random for my liking.
I suppose it should have been 'buyer beware' and so that others fall not into the same trap, try and check what materials are used for these super chic designs..I suggest they should be printed on the cover of the books.

a classy knit


Dont fret if you cannot find the exact wool that is suggested in most of these patterns in this book. Its worth getting a opinion on which wool to use by showing the patterns to a wool department. Anyone who knows what its all about will judge what wool to use by the size if the needles req. This book has some very unusual patterns that are worth knitting