…compilation of tutorials
Here it’s slowly getting cold – time for tea.
And to prevent the tea from getting cold, you could treat it with such a cute tea pot cozy ;-))
And if your not the cupcake type take perhaps a look at the Aran Sweater Tea Cozy ;-)
Links:
Tea Pot Cozy (Fairy Cake Tea Cosy)
Here at unikatissima:
Aran Sweater Tea Cozy
You surely know this: you want to knit something and the gauge is given, but your own gauge is different.
The page for the gauge conversion makes the calculation much easier!
Links:
Gauge Conversion (Convert a Sweater Pattern!)
via: Pattern design
Do you want to knit a sweater like e.g. my YouKnits sweater but wouldn’t know how much yarn you’d need?
Then look at the yarn yardage calculator to get at least an idea.
It’s not yet really warm everywhere. You can still use a recycled wrist warmer. And much better, if you can change a boring ribbed wrist warmer in such a simple way into a nice smocked wrist warmer ;-)
By the way: this wrist warmer isn’t knitted, but sewn from an old sweater!
Links:
Recycled Smocked Wrist Warmers (Tucked Ribbing Tutorial)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the words ‘wrist’ and ‘warmer’
Well, that’s a shoe that I really like!
You can make your shoes matching your sweaters or mittens ;-)
Although you can do this with some of the previously presented shoes too ;-)
Links:
Tutorial – How to knit a shoe
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘shoes’
Did you knit the Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2010?
And did you like the way the patterns flowed into each other?
I designed and published now a lot of patterns, called YouKnits, that you simply can combine and design your own lace pattern with.
Because it is usually not so easy to imagine how a pattern will look, there is the free YouKnits designer: you compose your pattern, click ‘make PDF’ and get a PDF file that you can save on your harddisk.
I think it’s best if you simply go and play around with the YouKnits designer ;-)
By the way, you can find there also a list of frequently asked questions and a Youknits designer description.
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:
Well, that’s a lot, isn’t it? ;-)
By the way, in all examples I included some that only use the basic set :)
You can find the scarf of the picture at the YouKnits lace example shawl and at the moment I’m knitting a vest of this kind.
Links:
unikatissima’s ravelry store
Here at unikatissima:
YouKnits designer
ist of frequently asked questions about the YouKnits designer
Youknits designer description
Recently I knitted something in brioche knitting and thought that it should look good if I’d alternate knit stitches and brioche stitches.
I find that it looks really good ;-))
Because it reminds me of corrugated cardboard I called it ‘Corrugated Stockinette’.
Although I’ve never seen this pattern in internet I’m sure that I’m not the first to devise (discover?!) it ;-)
And that’s what you do:
Knitted in rows:
Cast on an odd number of stitches
1. row: purl across (wrong side)
2. row: * 1 k, 1 dk *, repeat from * to *, end with 1 k
repeat rows 1-2 until reached the desired height
dk (‘deep knit’) means not to knit the stitch of the current row but the stitch of the previous row (enter needle into knit stitch of row below as if to knit, knit), the stitch of the current row disappears.
The fabric curls, it must therefore be blocked.
Knitted in rounds:
Additionally you can knit it easily in rounds, too:
cast on an even number of stitches, mark begin of the round
1. round: knit across
2. round: * 1 k, 1 dk *, repeat from * to *
repeat rows 1-2 until reached the desired height
Of course you can knit scarves from this pattern, but also double scarves by knitting in rounds and simply sewing the openings on top and bottom.
I think that the pattern would look fine as well for bags (in rounds, but only sew the bottom ;-)), for wristwarmers (in rounds, but don’t sew anything ;-))), for hats, cardigans, sweaters and actually everything else ;-))
Have much fun with it!
Amazing! A tutorial or rather a recipe on how to make a cardigan (or another piece of clothing) where you don’t have to sew and that particularly can’t get boring because you change the pattern every couple of inches following your own gusto – Crazy Lace.
I really consider trying it ;-))
But then I’d prefer The Incredible, Custom-fit Raglan Sweater as base.
Links:
Crazy Lace Cropped Cardi
There you find a PDF file where the following cardigan patterns from ravelry are mentioned:
Anthropologie Inspired Capelet DK Weight that linkes to the blog entry My First Sweater: An Adaptation and
Catherine’s Mini Cardi where there’s a direct download of a PDF file (~ 295 KB).
The Incredible, Custom-fit Raglan Sweater
via: Incredible Custom-Fit Raglan
And here you can see pictures of cardigans and sweaters made following the instructions of The Incredible, Custom-fit Raglan Sweater:
vneck raglan for dad
Jumper model
DSC02052
‘oxo’ sweater
icestormandpumpkin
Sensible stripes 3
Aub’s Half-Zip #1
raglan
29/7 The incredible, custom-fit raglan sweater
Craaazy! ;-)
I wrote an entry about round knitted/crocheted cardigans already, now somebody has send me (thanks, Monika!) a link to a very nice round crocheted cardigan.
New link to different but also round crocheted instruction: Modell 124/9, Rundgehäkelte Jacke.
Grumble! Although I find the patterns of Junghanswolle beautiful they become obsolete too fast for my taste.
That’s why I give now in the links of entry a list, one or two round crocheted cardigans will hopefully stay available ;-)
What I find makes it special is the fact that it includes a graphic which shows where to put the arm holes and the size of them – this way it makes it possible that I design my own round knitted/crocheted cardigans.
Whether I will be able to finish it is just another question ;-))
Links:
Round Crocheted Cardigan (Modell 405/0, Gehäkelte Weste aus Batik) (German)
Different but also round crocheted instruction: Round Crocheted Cardigan (Modell 124/9, Rundgehäkelte Jacke) (German).
Here at unikatissima:
Round Knitted/Crocheted Cardigans
I surfed the internet a little bit and found a website with lots of most beautiful Bolero and Shrug patterns, as well knitted as well crocheted.
But of course you can make other clothes from the single crochet patterns ;-)
I find best on shrugs that they don’t take so long to make as sweaters and the like ;-))
Although I feel the same constriction about shrug-making as for the crocheted Bolero: first I want to lose some (more) weight.
A fine excuse, isn’t it? ;-))
Addendum: it seems that Jessica Tromp put the pattern somewhere else: 60 bolero-crochet-patterns.
You find the photo under bolero 6a and directly to the right the directions on making the bolero.
The instruction for the medaillon seems to be further up on the same site where the yellow bolero is.
This is the direct link, but it doesn’t work for me.
Happy crochet :)
Links:
Bolero and shrug patterns, for women, knitting and crochet
Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
