Hi! I want to make this baby sweater for my baby due in a couple weeks. I know how to do basic knitting, but not really how to read patterns.... Can someone help me translate this?
I agree that taking a class would be a good way to gain basic knitting skills and learn things like how patterns usually work. However, many people have taught themselves to knit and you can do it too. Willingness to try is the best qualification.
Its more like two questions, actually. First, I was wondering how important it is to use a certain yarn that a pattern calls for. Because I found this sweater pattern, and it calls for this 80% cotton, 20% wool blend, but the only brand i could...
Blend is for texture and washability....and gauge.
As long as the gauge is the same, then you can use the pattern.
Find out which # it is on the 1-6 scale, then substitue something less expensive, that you like.
80/20 blends are not affordable, most are $9.75+
Handmade for the Holidays: Local crafters turn to Etsy
SCOTTS VALLEY -- San Jose Police Department officer Michael Roberson makes a living keeping the city's streets safe at night, but law enforcement isn't his only beat.
He also knows his way around Etsy.
"At work everybody calls me the Renaissance man," said Roberson, a hobbyist crafter whose other talents include singing [he's in a band], construction [he's a general contractor], parenting [he's a father of two] and photography [he once had his own darkroom].
The Scotts Valley resident saw a YouTube video earlier this year of an artist who uses dental tools to drill detailed designs into bone. Intrigued, Roberson tried it himself, and soon he was carving whistles and night-lights out of fallen branches, dog bones and deer antlers.
In September, Roberson opened a store in the online marketplace Etsy.com to gauge whether his carvings would sell. They did, most recently to a customer in the UK who now owns a forked deer-antler whistle with an antique mesquite mouthpiece handcrafted in Scotts Valley.
New Cotton & Cloud Cable Aran Cardigan Pattern on Simply Knitting
This year is just flying by. I don’t think it is just me feeling this way. It’s time of the year as much as we are increasingly becoming busier than ever. The weather is certainly getting colder in London but this does not stop me from hibernating!
Today I would like to talk about the December issue of Simply Knitting magazine because there is a new Cotton & Cloud pattern in it!
But before I talk about the pattern, I would like to mention two lovely patterns that are also in the magazine. The first is the pretty shawl from Melanie from Lilysunshine . The second is the Sweet & Simple mittens by Jen from Jen Arnall-Culliford Knitwear (you can see wonderful knit creations in her blog). I love how cozy the gloves look. It would be perfect if you have odd balls of variegated yarn.
The new knitting pattern featured in the magazine is a cable aran cardigan knitted with British superwash yarn Jarol . When I was a beginner knitter, my aim was to knit a cable aran sweater. So when I was asked by Debbie, the Editor of Simply Knitting magazine to pattern a cable cardigan using the aran yarn, this was it, a “must-do” project!
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Cotton Sweater knitting pattern News
The big Christmas jumper comebackMirror.co.uk - Jan 01, 1970
Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton and singer Kelly Rowland have both sported woollies decorated with reindeer while Towie's Maria Fowler has favoured a snowman pattern. On Friday, This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby wore Christmas
Financial Times - Jan 01, 1970
My granny, who was an atrocious knitter, would make ridiculous jumpers for me every year when I was a child. That baptism of fire made me think the louder and brighter the patterns and colours of the jumper, the better – I've always believed in proudly
The Sun - Jan 01, 1970
BEST SUBTLE PATTERN - Bench Get In Men's Jumper (£47.69, amazon.co.uk): A great low-key, causal Christmas knit. This has a nice understated pattern, which still does just enough to lend it a proper festive feel. Given the acrylic and cotton make-up,
Arizona Daily Star - Jan 01, 1970
The hands of Ava Blank, one of the owners of Tucson Yarn Co., knits a ball-shaped ornament that has a design inspired by Norwegian sweaters. Knitting this ornament is not for the faint at heart. They come in as many shapes, colors and materials as you
