Updates on the Day in the Park Cloche, including tips for picking your yarn, needles, and adding the bow to your hat.
Day In The Park Cloche: Pattern Update and Adding a Bow To Your Cloche
Category: Knitting
Lincoln Woods Hat: A super bulky knitting pattern
Knitting recipe/ pattern for a super-bulky winter hat. The Lincoln Park hat is an easy to follow pattern with quick, gorgeous results.
Truboo And Coboo: Yarn Review of Plant-based Fiber Goodness
Yarn Review and Comparison of the Truboo and Coboo Yarns, breaking down what's similar and different about these two yarns yarns. And why you may want to pick Coboo or Truboo for your next project.
Farmer’s Market Tote
Construction: This knit tote features a solid base and stretchy lace sides. You begin with a diagonal base knit back and forth before switching to knitting in the round to make the sides, top, and handles. This means minimal ends to weave in and no seams to sew.
Community Knitting: Free Hat Patterns
I have been looking for a new community knitting project to donate hats to and have found a really good project that aligns with things I consider important.
Super Simple, Super Bulky Knit Hat
The Super Simple, Super Bulky Hat is pretty much exactly what the name says. It’s a basic beanie pattern knit with super bulky yarn. If you’re a new knitter ready to take on knitting in the round and interested in knitting a hat, I’d give this pattern a try. If you’re a more experienced knitter looking for an under ninety-minute knitting project, this is a really fun, fast knit.
Chevron Stripes: A Pattern Update
Chevron Stripes Hat (PDF) Originally published as a free pattern on my blog in 2012, this is a pattern I really enjoy making - and hope you will too! It's a relatively quick knit using a worsted weight yarn and I've just always like the look of chevron stripes. The pattern has been refreshed and [...]
Mandala Striped Scarf
Does anyone remember those striped scarfs that were popular 10 to 15 years ago? You took two skeins of self-striping yarn and worked two rows from each ball to create a striping, color-changing very cool looking scarf that is actually really easy to make? This was a really popular pattern with Noro yarns sometime around [...]
Dollar Tree Cotton Yarn Review
& The Broken Rib Coaster Pattern Image of the Dollar Tree Yarn haul from March 2021. To skip the review and get to the pattern, click here. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a bunch of yarn from a local Dollar Tree and posted a review on Premier brand’s ‘Just Yarn’. That yarn was [...]
What To Look for When Picking the Perfect (for you) Pattern
One of the best things about being a crafter in 2021 is that you have so many ways to find your next project. Whether you buy a magazine, book, digital download or grab a free pattern from your local yarn store or favorite blogger, there are millions of knitting patterns at your fingertips. I was [...]