A stashbuster and a gentleman, another great design from Smariek Knits.
When I grow up, I want a knitting brain like she has.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles stash yarn worsted weightPopularity: 36% [?]
I just realized what my life is lacking. I need more little heads to knit tassled hats for.
The person who pioneers a child-rental service will make a fortune.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles worsted weightPopularity: 25% [?]
I assume that the name refers to the design the stitches form as they march up the ankle and not any requirement to walk like a bird while you wear these.
But just in case I’m wrong, hey, I’ll try anything for a nice pair of hand-knit socks.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles double point fingering weightPopularity: 11% [?]
I can’t say that I have ever beheld a knit washcloth and thought, “You know what this needs? Fruit!” But that’s why I’m not a designer.
Designers see the potential in all things. I just hover around the edge and admire.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 24% [?]
Call me old-fashioned if you like, but nothing makes me coo like a baby hat. Except maybe the baby in the baby hat. We’ll call it a draw.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
double point sport weightPopularity: 40% [?]
A companion piece for Brooke’s Column of Leaves Scarf, slightly less technical and every bit as pretty.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Popularity: 19% [?]
Every sports fan needs a warm hat for up in the nosebleed section.
Substitute whatever team colours will make the wearer do the Wave.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
bulky weight circular needles worsted weightPopularity: 15% [?]
When you first thought about knitting dishcloths, you probably knitted exactly this dishcloth.
The foundation for so many variations, the grandmother of all dishcloths is still the queen.
Difficulty level: Beginner
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 35% [?]
I’ve never met a cat that didn’t think the knitting basket was his own personal playground.
But maybe all the kitties were really after was some handknits just for them.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles worsted weightPopularity: 16% [?]
A highly original and fantastically cheerful design.
The vegetarians in every knitter’s life should have one, but why stop just with them?
Difficulty level: Easy
stash yarn straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 32% [?]
Curvy ladies need a curvy sweater. As a very curvy lady, I look forward to knitting one for myself.
Although for the purposes of this project, we may want to rename “bulky” weight yarn. My vote is for “voluptuous”.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
acrylic bulky weight circular needlesPopularity: 16% [?]
Knitting insulating cozies for beer bottles is intensely logical. But who needs logic?
Let’s knit the beer bottles themselves.
Difficulty level: Advanced
double point worsted weightPopularity: 22% [?]
The designer says that every scary prehistoric beast should be turned into a cuddly toy. When I see the results she gets, I wonder if she can do the same thing with my mortgage.
Difficulty level: Advanced
acrylic double point worsted weightPopularity: 16% [?]
Shelly at This Eclectic Life has a big, and big-hearted, project underway. She is assembling afghans for the children attending next summer’s cancer camp at Camp Sanguinity, but first she needs volunteer crocheters and knitters to help her make 6720 squares, or one afghan for each of 140 children. She needs you and me.
For more information, visit Share a Square.
Popularity: 14% [?]
A great design, burbling up from the designer’s own experiences and a need for big purses this continent didn’t even know it had.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles cotton worsted weightPopularity: 21% [?]
The folks in the lunch room at work will ask you what you’re working on.
And then won’t believe you when you tell them.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
double point worsted weightPopularity: 13% [?]
I have a soft spot in my heart for baby blankets, and this is a lovely soft baby blanket.
It all fits together, really.
Difficulty level: Easy
straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 44% [?]
They dodge left, they dodge right. They just barely miss getting knocked down by a yellow cab.
And they’re pretty darn cool socks.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
double point fingering weightPopularity: 11% [?]
For some people, the word “tweedy” conjures up images of professors with leather patches on the elbows of their jackets.
But not here, they don’t.
Difficulty level: Advanced
circular needles straight needles wool worsted weightPopularity: 26% [?]
Get your buzz on with this honey-sweet washcloth.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 19% [?]
