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Kaffe Fasset Stone Circles Sweater

Rowan Kaffe Fasset Stone Circles Sweater

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I’m always fascinated by items from Kaffe Fassett – and now I have even found a tutorial for his Stone Circles sweater!
After I’ve read the instruction I had to realise that – as beautiful as the sweater may be – I’d never have the patience to knit something of this kind.
Sigh.


Links:
Kaffe Fasset Stone Circles Sweater (Stone Circles)
There are more free instructions, also for patterns of Kaffe Fasset, e.g.
Spot Cushion – if you chekc the ‘Related Projects’ there you can find even more

Google image search result for ‘Kaffe Fasset’

Upcycled Sweater Boots

craftster Upcycled Sweater Boots

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Still have some old sweaters? Make such a boot from them!

Another great idea, isn’t it? :)
As good as the Sweater Scarf and the yarn from sweaters ;-)

And if you don’t have a sweater to recycle, take t-shirts ;-))


Links:
Upcycled sweater boots (w/mini tutorial!)

Here at unikatissima:
Sweater Scarf
Recycled Yarns
Entries containing the word ‘t-shirt’

Sweater Scarf

Spun Magazine Sweater Arm Scarf

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Once I found an instruction on how to make a scarf from felted old sweaters but the website doesn’t exist anymore.
The photo is from the website, click to enlarge.

 

That’s how they did it:

  1. Wash sweaters from 100% wool (mohair works fine, too) with some laundry detergent.
  2. Felt in dryer.
    Felting makes the fabric so dense that it doesn’t unravel when cut.
  3. Cut stripes from the sweaters in the width you want the scarf to be.
    The lengths will vary depending on the part of the sweater where you cut the piece.
    In the instruction they used mainly the arms.
  4. Eventually simply sew the pieces together, whether with a sewing machine or by hand.
    The seam can be used as a decorating element.
  5. The scarf can subsequently be embellished: with buttons, felted flowers, beads, pom-poms, fringes, embroidery and so on.

In fact I would like to have a cardigan-kind garment made with this technique, no scarf.
Therefore I went to several second hand stores to look for wool sweaters but found mostly sweaters from artificial material which don’t felt.
But I stay tuned ;-)


Links:
The original website that doesn’t exist anymore

Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘felting’

YouKnits designer

Frequently asked questions | Examples | Credits | Youknits designer description
Although the YouKnits designer is far from perfect (mostly due to my photos), I think its a great tool to help you when you design your personal lace pattern with YouKnits.
So: enjoy :)
Note: You can get the YouKnits designer now as Android app! (see YouKnits designer and YouKnits designer C)
(The YouKnits designer does not work anymore because Adobe discontinued the flash player.)

 

English:

Frequently asked questions

  • Question: What about property rights?
    Answer:
    By using my patterns you agree to my terms of use which you can find here on my website and in my PDF files.
  • Question: What do I get here?
    Answer:

      Use the YouKnits designer to make lace patterns by simply combining YouKnits to your personal and probably unique pattern.
      When you have finished your personal design, press the button ‘make PDF’ to let generate a PDF file and to save it on your harddisk.
      The file contains:

    1. an overview picture of your personal YouKnits design,
    2. for large patterns a page reference chart (shows which part of the YouKnits distribution chart is printed on which page),
    3. the YouKnits distribution chart (shows the order in which YouKnits have to be worked) and
    4. a list of all the YouKnits you used in your personal pattern with links to the appropriate ravelry pages.
  • Question: How does the YouKnits designer work?
    Answer:
    Please see the YouKnits designer description here on my website or the help in the YouKnits designer to find out more about how it works.
  • Question: Is it free?
    Answer:
    The use of the YouKnits designer is free, some of the YouKnits are free, too, others must be purchased by you.
    When you use the YouKnits designer you will always see whether a YouKnit is free.
  • Question: Where do I get the YouKnits?
    Answer:
    You can download/purchase them at ravelry.
    Note: You don’t have to be a ravelry member.
    I asked to open my ravelry shop for the public, and the links from the PDF mentioned above will bring you there.
    There you can also get the free downloads without going through paypal.
  • Question: I got the YouKnits, how do I use them?
    Answer:
    You can download at ravelry the how-to (for free), there I tried to describe in full detail how to knit patterns of combined YouKnits.
    Note: You don’t have to be a ravelry member.
    I asked to open my ravelry shop for the public, and the links from the PDF mentioned above will bring you there.
    There you can also get the free downloads without going through paypal.
  • Question: There are strange notches when I’m using triangle YouKnits. Is it supposed to look like that?
    Answer:
    Please read the answer in the YouKnits description.
  • Question: You said that YouKnits can be deleted from or copied on the grid and deleted from or reordered on the subset.
    Why doesn’t it work for me?
    Answer:
    Sorry, it’s a bug that we haven’t found yet. But we’re still working on it, hoping that we can fix it.
  • Question: I can’t scroll down to the lowest slide. What can I do?
    Answer:
    How much of the YouKnits designer is shown on the screen depends on the resolution of your computer screen.
    If you don’t get the whole YouKnits designer on the screen, you must work with both scrollbars: the one of the YouKnits designer and the one of your browser window.
  • Question: Why does it take so long to load the YouKnits designer?
    Answer:
    If you have a fast connection it takes approximately 10 seconds.
    Sorry, but it takes its time to load all the pictures of the beautiful Youknit patterns ;-)
  • Question: Why does the YouKnits designer doesn’t work for me?
    Answer:
    I think that you have the wrong Flash Player version, you must use a Flash Player Version 10 or greater.
    If you don’t have it, click this button: Get Adobe Flash player

 

Examples

Oh, you’ve knitted enough shawls and scarves already?
No problem, I thought about what else to knit with the YouKnits and that’s what I came up with:

 

Credits

We lace knitters wouldn’t have a YouKnits designer if RIAmore.eu wouldn’t have helped again (as for the other generators).
It is powered by AS3, Robotlegs, AS3 Signals, MinimalComps and AlivePDF and the font was designed by Yusuke Kamiyamane (Ronda Seven).
Thanks to everybody involved!

Random Choice Generator

TextFixer Random Choice Generator

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Especially in Advent one must make many small decisions, e.g. should I knit my sweater, clean the kitchen or nap a little?
As you can see the random choice generator can help you with this ;-))

 


Links:
Random Choice Generator
=> Setting ‘Items are on seperate lines’ and enter one option per line

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘Advent’
Entries with the tag ‘knitting’

Swatch Bangle

See Me Knit Swatch Bangle

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Another beautiful idea: if you knit something you often knit a swatch first.
You can collect these swatches and in the course of time get enough for a blanket.
But you can also make a swatch bangle, matching your sweater :))
For that purpose you simply sew the swatch around a ready-made bracelet.
If you don’t have aready-made bracelet you can also make the bracelet yourself from a plastic bottle (see the knitted/crocheted bangles) or from paper (see the bracelet from recycled paper) :)

 


Links:
Swatch Bangle (So, a few days ago, …)
via: Swatch Bangle

Here at unikatissima:
Knitted/Crocheted Bangles
Bracelet from Recycled Paper

Waist Shaping Calculator

interweave knittingdaily Waist Shaping Calculator

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No, you can’t calculate how to get a small waist with the waist shaping calculator, but how to fit your hand knitted/crocheted sweater perfectly to your existent waist.
It’s also worthy ;-)

 


Links:
Waist Shaping Calculator
Description of the Waist Shaping Calculator (New Online Knitting Tool: Waist Shaping Calculator)
Waist Shaping Calculator (Waist Shaping Calculator for Garments and Knitting Patterns)
Description of the Waist Shaping Calculator (Online Knitting Tool: Waist Shaping Calculator)
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