Category: Patterns
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Bicycle Sweater
I don’t know if this counts as an abandoned knitting project seeing as I never actually started it, but I did sketch it sometime back in 2013 fresh from a rainy day trip to Savannah. I went as far as dropping some squares in MS Paint, and then immediately forgot about it. Probably because the […]
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Puppy’s First Christmas Sweater
Buttercup is cold. This is one of those things that probably isn’t true – she’s made of fluff and lives in Georgia – but it feels true. Another thing that feels that true, is that if I love her I should knit her a sweater for Christmas.
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Little Black Dress
This dress started with a question: what does one wear with thigh-high boots? I bought the aforementioned boots in a major sale when the Diane Von Furstenburg store near me was closing its doors. It was the early days of covid, back when I was asking optimistic questions like, what should I wear to all […]
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Moss Crop Top
This part 90’s bubble shirt, part sweater I bought at the Gap eight years ago, is Jigglypuff reaimagined as a sweater. Jigglypuff easily makes my top three favorite Pokemon, but pink isn’t a color that’s usually featured in my closet. I started with a giant cone of pink DK that’s made it’s way through three […]
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Fair Isle Tank Take Two
This fair isle tank was the first tank top I’ve ever knit, and I clearly forgot a lot about what tank tops actually look like. Primarily, that the front and back are typically different. So I frogged the back. Here’s my re-do.
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Only Murders in This Beanie
Now that I’ve binged Only Murders in the Building twice in a row, I’ve decided I need Selena Gomez’s wardrobe. I’m starting with this hat.
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Striped Sweater
This might be my favorite stash yarn knit yet. It’s more relaxed than my usual raglan (or at least seamed) sweater and made entirely from scraps of worsted I bought from my yarn teacher’s store as a kid – back when I chose yarn for stitch visibility and nothing else. Not for the first time, […]
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Take Two Cardigan
This is about as close as I get to knitting the same thing twice. There were a couple of things I wanted to change after my first cardigan. First, it was a little smaller than I’d like. I even had to stretch out the back a little while I was blocking. And second, it looked […]
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Sherbet Cardigan
I’ve never made a cardigan before, but I needed something to knit for fiber arts night on Thursday – when a few friends come over to knit, cross-stitch, and eat junk food for dinner. So I grabbed five colors from my stash of decade-old worsted weight and gave it a go, defaulting to the same […]
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Ripping Off a Retailer
It’s not always cheaper to knit for myself. On the line graph of work experience to savings, knitting gets comparatively cheaper the longer I work. Yarn as a teenager was a pretty considerable expense in babysitting money compared to sweaters from Forever 21 that would disintegrate on the first wash. Now comparing decent yarn to […]
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