Please give me some simple but lovely knitting patterns!

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Right, I need your help!

It's my mum's birthday in a few weeks and I'm utterly stumped as to what to buy her. She can knit, not tremendously complicated stuff, but she's made a few things for the GCs that are lovely (cardigans etc). I'm wondering about making her a knitting kit - pattern, needles, wool in a lovely bag (that I might crochet for her). But I know nothing about knitting!

Can anyone point me in the way of some nice patterns that aren't too demanding but look rather special?

I was thinking maybe a wrap or simple cardigan? www.stitchdiva.com/endless-knitted-cardi-shawl I quite like this, but I have no idea if it's as easy as it says! Help!

Set her up an account at ravelry.

Buy her a gift voucher for your local yarn shop.

Take her out for lunch, go to the shop, spend the voucher, sit and knit/crochet and eat biscuits.

You are a lovely daughter.

Oh, stitch diva have a group on ravelry, you'll be able to find out how difficult the pattern is on there. www.ravelry.com

Introduce her to ravelry- free patterns GALORE. And buy her some lovely yarn or vouchers with which to buy lovely yarn. Lovely present!

I agree with the others - if you want to have something to give her on the day, why not buy a really lovely double knitting yarn and some 4mm needles (the sort of bog standard for knitting) and then you can choose a pattern together on Ravelry.

Or you could, depending on whether she would take it in the right spirit, buy her a knitting class at her local yarn shop. Mine run fantastic workshop/tutorials at weekends and even my Mum (who is a champion knitter) was sounding rather intrigued when I was telling her about the one I did last weekend - it was on finishing techniques, so endlessly applicable to everything you knit from then on, and some of the people on the course felt it was the best one they had ever done (I've only done two and I loved it!).

How about a ball of luxurious Rowan Kidsilk (mohair and silk mix) see here - beautiful colours which is £18 a ball, (but you can make a scarf with one ball, pattern on the ballband) and some needles and then go along to a knitting group with her, a group that has knitting AND CAKE.

These are good! Thank you! I'm already on ravelry and have introduced her to it, but it's a little overwhelming for me as I don't knit, so don't know what she would feel she can comfortably do - this is supposed to be a present, not a punishment!

There's a lovely local yarn shop that offers courses, so I might investigate further and see what they offer. I've got lots of paypal & Amazon funds at the mo, so will have a look on there - I used some lovely Debbie Bliss yarn for one of the MN blankets recently and I am still slackjawed at just how lovely it is to work with properproper proper yarn instead of cheap acrylic.