You can never have too many bags, and you can never have too many felted projects.
I mean, after babying your yarn and treating it like one of your own, how often do you get to bash it around afterwards?
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles double point wool worsted weightPopularity: 61% [?]
Wear a warm hug around your neck.
Suddenly it’s comfortable to eat ice cream all year round.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
bulky weight circular needlesPopularity: 42% [?]
Are you a peacock? I’m not, really. I like attention, don’t get me wrong, I’m a Leo and everything, but I’ve never strutted around, showing myself off.
With this shrug, however, I might.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cotton rayon straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 55% [?]
This pattern appealed to me because it was absolutely not what I was imagining. Fir cones are hard and prong-y and this wrap is soft and, well, wrap-y.
I was reasonably certain even before I opened it that the wrap wasn’t knitted from pinecones, but I did wonder for a moment, because I’m that kind of person.
Difficulty level: Advanced
circular needles Lace weight silkPopularity: 49% [?]
In a word, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The mail brought good tidings today. My new yarn has arrived.
I was feeling very sorry for myself, looking at the decrepit state of my yarn stash. So I splashed out and went eBaying. I’ve wanted to get into knitted washcloths in a semi-major way - this is almost entirely Smariek’s fault, for being such a prolific and talented designer - so it only seemed logical to buy some cotton. By the pound.
And like peanut butter cups, you can never stop at just one.
cotton stash yarnPopularity: 29% [?]
For people who never watched the television series Firefly, obscure references to an enormous thug of a man wearing an orange pompom hat his mother knitted for him won’t mean much.
For people who did watch Firefly, I think the script said it best: “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles wool worsted weightPopularity: 44% [?]
When you’re talking about an Etch-a-Sketch, straight up and down is king. But with sproingy scarves, diagonal is the way to go.
Difficulty level: Easy
alpaca straight needles wool worsted weightPopularity: 43% [?]
A cute baby sweater for the cute baby of your choice. If you don’t know any cute babies, this sleeveless gem will upgrade any baby to adorable.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 66% [?]
Knitted food is a specialized art form that most of us wouldn’t even dream of. Hannah’s very good at knitted food, and these are some very sweet peas.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
sport weight straight needlesPopularity: 39% [?]
For when you don’t need a whole sweater, but you need some ruffles really badly.
Difficulty level: Advanced
acrylic circular needles cotton double point worsted weightPopularity: 56% [?]
I have officially lived long enough to see styles from my youth come back around. Whenever I see young fashionistas in leggings, I want to point and shriek, “1982! 1982!” Legwarmers, however, I’m thrilled to see coming back.
Let’s get physical.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles double point wool worsted weightPopularity: 51% [?]
A beautiful washcloth with Breast Cancer awareness in mind.
Use them for a charity project with your knitting friends, or give them as a gift to a survivor.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 50% [?]
Why did you get into knitting? What did you imagine? Sweaters? Washcloths? Felting? Socks?
Ooh, socks. I’ll bet it was socks.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
double point fingering weightPopularity: 27% [?]
Think about a felted bag. Get a picture in your mind.
Is it soft and fluffy and fringey and sparkly? No? This one is.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
bulky weight mohair straight needles woolPopularity: 45% [?]
A cozy blanket to keep you warm on a winter evening.
And it’s small enough that you’ll get through knitting it before you lose your will to live.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles merino nylon worsted weightPopularity: 47% [?]
Knitting a sweater is a lot of work, and the very thought of steeking it might make your blood run cold. “You want me… to cut through… my knitting?” It sounds scary. It sounds impossible.
It isn’t, and this pattern is proof.
Difficulty level: Advanced
bulky weight circular needles woolPopularity: 47% [?]
Is this a seasonal pattern? Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who gets all gooey over Valentine’s Day. Me, I say forget Valentine’s Day, and let’s be sweet to each other all year ’round.
So from my perspective, October is a perfect time for red hearts.
Difficulty level: Easy
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 46% [?]
I wouldn’t want to play favorites or anything… but this knitted womb is possibly the most fantastic thing ever. No, scratch that. I’m not typing breathlessly enough, and I need some exclamation points, too.
Thisknittedwombispossiblythemostfantasticthingever!!! Right on.
Difficulty level: Advanced
bulky weight double point woolPopularity: 45% [?]
Steeling myself, emotionally prepared, I dragged out my yarn stash today. And I may even have cried a little. How far we have fallen, dear yarn stash.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
A period of straitened domestic economics - screw the fancy talk, we were broke - meant that like it or not, I was stashbusting. I didn’t mind, actually: instead of buying yarn for projects, I was forced to be be creative in combinations. For the kind of lazy knitter/impatient crocheter/mediocre weaver that I am, I worked a lot harder when I had to think instead of just shop. But after a few years of not buying yarn, my once-glorious yarn stash looks like it’s been ravaged by yarn locusts.
Even my husband pitied it, laid out on the living room carpet. And he fears the yarn stash. It was now so sad, even he could not triumph over it.
acrylic alpaca merino woolPopularity: 22% [?]
At this very moment, there is a small child running back and forth in the condo above me, wearing very hard little shoes. Thump thump thump thump. Thump thump thump thump.
The thought of knitting adorable baby stuff is the only thing keeping me going today.
Difficulty level: Advanced
cotton straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 55% [?]
