Showing posts with label Free Patterns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Patterns. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

New name and a new pattern!

I've decided to give my little blog a new name, knitting seems to have stolen my sanity so I might as well give in to it... it's always best to humour obsessions...especially ones as consuming as yarn and knitting. But I really do have to give credit to my hubby for the new name because he's the one who thinks I knit too much ( really what's too much?) and that I drink way more caffeine than I should (pshaw to that) so thus to him I became the Jittery Knitter and it just seems to have stuck.

Anyways on to the pattern bits, you know the good stuff. I was in Little Red Mitten and I happened to pick up the last skein of Wisdom Poems Yarn in colourway 172 ( they really are small balls at only a 109 yards) but it was sooo pretty in all it's pink and teal glory and I just couldn't leave it there alone now could I? So home it came and then I was left with the dilemma of deciding what to do with this lovely lonesome ball....and that's how My Poems Single Skein Wristlets came to be ( now don't get me wrong they are very simple to make so it's really a pattern in the loosest sense)

Poems

Materials: One skein of Wisdom Poems Yarn (109 yards), a set of 4mm size 6 dpn's and a needle for sewing in the ends.

For first cuff start working from inside the skein and cast on 44 stitches.
Knit in 2x2 rib for 5 1/2" inches.
At start of next row K2 P1 cast off 7 stitches continue in rib pattern for the rest of the row.  ( If you want a smaller thumb opening cast of a smaller number e.g. 5 stitches...just remember to cast back on the same number you cast off)
Next row K2 P1 re-cast on 7 stitches ( or same number you cast off) and continue in rib pattern for another 1" inch.
BO in rib pattern. Weave in all ends.

For the second cuff work pattern exactly the same only start working from outside of the skein.


Which will leave you with just enough to make two of these little guys! And no waste...even better! Perfect for gift tags which is what I'm intending to use this year.


Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Basket Weave Dishcloth Pattern

This is the my pattern that I designed for my favourite knit dishcloth. At 9"x9" and textured makes it the perfect cloth for everyday use...plus it's kinda pretty too, and why can't functional be pretty?




Basket weave cloth pattern:
Materials: a set of 4.5mm needles and about 40-50g cotton yarn

Notes: ~Pattern Row 1 and Pattern Row 2 each consist of 4 repeat rows. So each set of 4 counts as 1 pattern row...does that make sense...I sure hope so.
           ~ Remember to keep first 2 stitches and last 2 stitches of each in garter

Cast on 40 stitches
Knit 2 rows in garter

Pattern Row 1: K2, *K3, P3*  repeat ** to last 2 stitches, K2
  Repeat 3 more times for a total of 4 rows

Pattern Row 2: K2, *P3, K3* repeat ** to last 2 stitches, K2
  Repeat 3 more times for a total of 4 rows

Repeat Pattern Rows 1 and 2 for a total of 12 Pattern rows
Knit  2 rows
Bind off in knit

Aprox 9"x9" when finished

I make these all the time to use as decorations on wedding or house warming gifts. Makes an excellent face cloth as well.