In the modern world, manual creativity has become fashionable. The history of knitting begins in the III century AD. This tradition is passed down from generation to generation. It is remarkable that among young people this type of creativity is developing and flourishing.
The problem of New Year's gifts
Everybody knows about crazy shopping on the eve of the New Year. However, with minimal skills, you can try and make New Year's souvenirs with your own hands. These products are exclusive, keep warm hands, positive energy. Undoubtedly, knitted gifts for the New Year will make it cozy, joyful.
Knitwear looks elegant on children of any age. Dresses, suits, socks, hats, blouses can be crocheted or knitted. A wonderful gift will be a soft bright toy.
Gifts and souvenirs for children
Fantasy masters of hand knitting have no limits. Here are the children's things that will always be needed:
- Seamless socks on two knitting needles;
- a bolero for a girl;
- top for girls;
- openwork skirt for the girl;
- vest for the boy;
- booties;
- hat for the newborn;
- an envelope for the newborn;
- snood;
- scarf;
- Toys: fox, raccoon, goose and others.
Nothing will warm the baby like do-it-yourself things. If the moment of birth of the baby fell on the New Year, then in knitting you can use the symbols of the New Year. Basically, this is the embroidery of New Year's elements: Christmas trees, deers, Santa Claus, snowmen.
Joyful New Year gifts for children 3-4 years old - crocheted animals. You can connect the symbol of the year, but, in general, the kids will be happy with any animals. Older children will appreciate crocheted cover for a book, tablet, phone case or knitted keychain.
Joy to family and friends on New Year
Mom can give a New Year striped plaid or with a "grandmother's" squarecrocheted or knitting. Openwork shawl crocheting will also be a wonderful gift. Knitted are always useful for father mittens, gloves, slippers. An original gift for parents for the New Year will be crochet teapot in the form of a snail; you can also tie mugs.
You can give a spouse for the holiday a warm wool sweater or a knitted sports hat. An intimate gift will be a surprise - crocheted boxers. There are many ideas for such boxers on the Internet.
Colleagues can please knitted Christmas tree decorations. Small souvenirs: deer, snowmen, Santa Claus - traditional symbols of the New Year. Snowflakes, tangerines, boots, angels will come in handy for the New Year holiday. Such gifts will bring warmth, joy to the relationship with colleagues.
Knitted Christmas trees in pots, cones, balls will cheer you up.
DIY Christmas gifts for beginners
To embark on a crochet DIY New Year gift, beginners should learn the technique of knitting a variety of patterns. The technique is simple, even a child can master it. It does not take a lot of time. And then you can already take up knitting snoods, scarves, booties. With each resulting thing skill will grow, the desire to surprise family and friends.
Also knitting can interest, carry away. By studying simple patterns, you can knit an elastic band for hair. Having mastered the knitting technique of the pattern you like, you can get to knitting vests, socks, mittens.
What to present to relatives and colleagues for the New Year?
Of course, Christmas souvenirs made by yourself should be neat and necessary. Gifts for children need to be carefully considered. If these are things, then they should be as convenient as possible. It is better to use hypoallergenic yarn for knitting. Such yarn as cotton, viscose, silk, high quality acrylic will appeal to the baby. Warm clothes are best knitted from merino wool or alpaca wool. In no case should you use mohair, Angora wool, polyamide, lurex for children's things.
Checking the wool for naturalness is simple: when set on fire, natural wool burns with ash, and artificial wool turns into a plastic ball. You can also check the yarn for comfort by brushing your lips. The skin on the lips is sensitive, immediately reacts to spiky, discomfort.
If this is a toy, then it should be made of bright yarn, it’s good if it has moving parts. You can associate your favorite children's character from the cartoon.
DIY souvenirs will please relatives and colleagues. But at work, you should not give friends intimate knitted gifts. You can also not guess with the size of hats, mittens, socks. Therefore, colleagues are better off giving elements of New Year's decor:
- crocheted openwork napkins;
- souvenirs in the form of animals - symbols of the year;
- Christmas tree toys
- knitted Christmas trees in pots;
- crocheted pots.
But relatives will be glad to knit things, they will warm them in the cold winter, bring comfort to the house. Ideas for Christmas gifts for loved ones:
- sweaters;
- hats;
- socks;
- snoods;
- mittens;
- plaids;
- shawls.
How long will it take to knit a New Year's gift?
Learning to knit or crochet is easy if you have a burning desire and patience. Of course, it will take time at the beginning of training. Then, with a certain skill, a thing can be connected in 3-4 days. It depends on the individual characteristics of the person, the level of skill. Small toys can be made quickly in 30 minutes:
- Christmas trees
- Christmas balls;
- animals - symbols of the New Year;
- snowflakes.
Crocheted napkins for decorating the New Year's table also will not take much time.But the finished product will bring satisfaction and joy.
Knitted souvenirs will bring warmth, comfort to relatives, as well as colleagues. This is a good alternative to shopping gifts. Knitted gifts for the New Year are always original. No need to be afraid for the quality of the gift. DIY gifts save your budget. Openwork products look presentable at any time of the year.
In the next video you will find additional ideas for knitted gifts for the New Year.
