Double Knitting Patterns
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by Sarah White
21h ago
One of the skills I want to use more this year is double knitting. This is a technique that uses slipped stitches in a particular way to make a double-sided fabric. You can use it with a single color, or with a different solid color on each side, like in this knit bandana from Ozetta on Etsy, which uses two colors of fingering weight yarn to make a pretty little reversible accessory. But most commonly this technique is used for colorwork, because the cool thing about it is the colors reverse when you knit with two colors on each side. That makes for really fun projects that are reversible in a ..read more
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Mosaic Shawl Knitting Patterns
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by Sarah White
2d ago
I don’t know why there are so many mosaic shawl knitting patterns out in the world. Searching on Ravelry there are nearly 2,500 options for mosaic knit shawls! But a shawl is a great canvas for learning this colorwork knitting technique. I think the biggest project I’ve used mosaic knitting on was a shawl (which I was going to share with you but I’m so bad at record keeping I can’t even find the pattern). To narrow down the list a bit, I looked at patterns rated easy, so if you’re new to mosaic knitting these projects should provide some good options for you. One easy way to learn mosaic knitt ..read more
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Set the Table for Breakfast with Knitting
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by Sarah White
4d ago
I guess I’ve got food-related knitting on the brain lately! After sharing the pretzel and macaron pillows the other day, here’s another fun food knitting project for you. Play with your food and then set the table with it, with help from the Breakfast of Champions set from Knit Picks. Designed by Joyce Fassbender, this three-piece set includes a fried egg placemat, a napkin that’s a piece of toast complete with a pat of butter, and an orange slice-inspired cup cozy. The set is rated as being for intermediate knitters and uses sport weight cotton blend yarn (Knit Picks Shine Sport, to be precis ..read more
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Use Welts to Add Color to a Circular Bag
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by Sarah White
5d ago
One of the easiest ways to use a little bit of leftover yarn in another knitting project is to add stripes. The Lollipop Crossbody Bag from Ainur Berkimbayeva gives you a chance to use leftover yarn (or new yarn for that matter) in several colors, or in one color if you prefer. Her version shows three contrasting colors but there are six welts, so you could do most of a rainbow, or an ombre with several shades of the same color, or even just a single color or one multicolored yarn to see what would happen. The pattern has options to work the bag with fingering, sport or DK weight yarn, and I i ..read more
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Knit a Pretty Poncho with Lace and Cables
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by Sarah White
6d ago
I have long considered myself to be not a poncho person. Other than making one for my daughter when she was really young, I don’t think I’ve ever knit one, because I don’t know if it’s a style I would wear. But if we’re being honest, a poncho can just be a shawl that’s easier to wear, right? That’s what the Colette pattern from the Berroco design team reminded me of. It is actually just a rectangle with a head hole, so it’s exactly like a shawl that won’t fall off your shoulders. The design of this one reminds me of a shawl, too. It’s worked in a DK weight yarn with an allover pattern of eyele ..read more
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How to Add Duplicate Stitch to Knitting Patterns
Craftgossip | Knitting Patterns, projects and techniques
by Sarah White
1w ago
I write these posts up to a month in advance, so I hope by the time this post goes live it won’t be a lie to say I recently finished what was probably the most intense knitting experience of my life so far (at least in terms of an individual project; books are way more intense): knitting an argyle vest. (As I write, I just need to sew the pieces together and finish the armholes and neckline, so it’s definitely possible it will be done by the time you read this!) This project was a challenge for a lot of reasons: the pattern wasn’t well written, my gauge was a little off so I sort of worked par ..read more
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Knits for Babies Using Worsted Weight Yarn
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by Sarah White
1w ago
I know people typically think of lighter weight yarns when they think of knitting for babies. One of the terms used for light weight yarn is even “baby yarn.” But I think there are a lot of valid reasons to use thicker yarn when you’re knitting for little ones (so much so I wrote a book about it). For one thing, projects made with heavier yarn are faster to knit. That’s a good thing because babies grow really fast so you won’t have spent a lot of time on a project that won’t get a lot of use. Also, there are babies in winter, and they might like to have warm sweaters and hats. So let’s explore ..read more
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Syncope Sweater Knitting Pattern
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by Sarah White
1w ago
I can’t say for sure what has come over me, but I have lately been feeling like I want to knit a cropped sweater. I do not particularly have a wasitline that I would consider conducive to cropped sweaters, but maybe this is part of me accepting my body as it is in middle age (gasp). In truth I’ve started to think it would be cute to have a cropped sweater to wear over dresses or with button down shirts. If things get really wild, it might cause me to experiment with high-waisted pants. Look out, world. Syncope means fainting, and the reason this sweater has that name is because the designer, W ..read more
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Knit a Sock Weight Balaclava
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by Sarah White
1w ago
I usually think of balaclavas as being for the coldest part of winter. I knit my husband one (one of the rare things I’ve knit for him because I knew he would actually use it) and he wears it for shoveling snow from the driveway or other needed outdoor things when it’s super cold outside. But you might want a similar head-hugging design even when it’s not the dead of winter. In that case, you’ll need Nick Davis’ Socklaclava (let’s not talk about how much time I spent playing with pronouncing that work, OK?). As you can probably guess from the name, this is a balaclava style knit hat that’s mad ..read more
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Book Review: 100 Knitted Tiles
Craftgossip | Knitting Patterns, projects and techniques
by Sarah White
1w ago
If you love to knit different kinds of patterned blocks, you will love 100 Knitted Tiles edited by Sarah Callard. This book features charts and patterns with designs inspired by ceramic tiles from around the world, most of which are colorwork but there are also cables, lace and other textured patterns as well. The blocks are from a range of designers and use different skills. Many of them require reading a chart to work the design. You’ll find a lot of different knitting skills in these pages, including knit and purl designs, cables, lace, mosaic, stranded knitting, intarsia, modular desi ..read more
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