Author: Leila Jacob
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Simple Stash Beanie
Size: Women’s Medium Materials Size 10 DPNs 90 yards of your squishiest, chunkiest stash yarn (my favorite is on the right, Loops & Threads Cozy Wool in Harvest) Gauge 9 stitches and 9 rows = 2 inches in 1×1 rib Pattern CO 60 Row 1: (RS) K in 1×1 rib, join in the round Continue in…
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Big Sweater Smaller Sweater
There’s a picture of my dad that used to sit on my mom’s bedside table – in the nebulous lore that is my dad’s past, I would place it somewhere around the time he took a break from college and lived in Colorado, getting by teaching other sometime-college-students to ski. In this picture, he’s leaning…
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60 Quick Luxury Knits
Diamond Lattice Scarf by Leila Jacob from 60 Quick Luxury Knits, published by Sixth&Spring Books. Photography by Jack Deutsch and text copyright © 2014 by Sixth&Spring Books. Used by permission. 60 Quick Luxury Knits comes out in August, and features one of my patterns! Well, I say features, really includes. Very likely coming to a bookstore near you!
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Doctor Who Scarf
I’ve been wanting to knit Tom Baker’s classic scarf ever since I learned there were doctors before Christopher Eccleston, but I wanted to do it right, and I couldn’t justify spending that much for yarn. Until recently, when a family friend commissioned one for her husband’s anniversary present. The pattern I followed can be found…
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“No, Seriously, One Skein” Circle Scarf Pattern
This is the once-beautiful skein of ultra-soft yarn that resided at the bottom of a yarn stash for an undetermined amount of time with no tag to indicate yardage, dye lot, company name, or anything else indicative of where to go to buy more, how long ago it was made, or how much there is.…
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Diamond Hat
GAUGE: 13 sts/18 rows = 2 inches SIZE: Women’s Medium MATERIALS: 1 Skein Galway Size 6 double pointed needles DIRECTIONS: CO 120 sts on double pointed needles place marker and join in the round, being careful not to twist Rows 1-10: Knit in 2×2 rib Row 11: P1, K17, P1, K2, P1, K17, P1, K2,…
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Plush Octopus
Finished Dimensions: 3″ by 10 1/2″ Gauge: 13 stitches and 19 rows – 2″ Materials:Dreambaby DK in white (MC) Knitting Fever Dazzle 105 Purple (CC) Scrap Black for Eyes Size 4 DPNs Head Co 2 in MC Row 1: Kf&b twice Row 2: Pf&b to end Row 3: *Kf&b, K1; repeat from * to end Row…
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Bunny Ear Hat
Made for a seven pound newborn. Gauge: 7 1/2 stitches to 1″ Materials: Size US 2 Double Pointed Needles 1 Skein White Plymouth Dreambaby DK (MC) 1 Skein Pink Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool (CC) Hat CO 97 st. with MC Knit in the round for 40 rows, or until the hat…
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Fair Isle Christmas Stocking
Abbreviation Guide MC- main color CC- contrast color K2tog- knit two together P2tog- purl two together Kf&b- knit front and back SSK- slip, slip, knit ST- stockinette st SH- stitch holder Materials Needles – Size 3 DPNs Yarn – Light Green Encore Worsted (MC) Black Encore Worsted (CC1) Forrest Green Encore Worsted (CC2) Light Blue…
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Completion is a Pretty Nice Change
I actually finished my sweater. Here it is, free of loose ends and finally wearable. I’m pretty proud of it. It’s not perfect, but I think I can look past its flaws and actually wear and enjoy it. Seven years ago, when I was just starting to knit, I would look at sweaters and…
Knitting Problems 