If there’s one yarn that you can never, ever, eeevvver go wrong with, it is the yarnicorn wool from we are knitters. This yarn is freaking gorgeous. From the ordering it to the opening the package to the looking at the yarn to the feeling it’s soft fluffiness and then to the knitting it. You just truly won’t even want to stop looking at it and you’ll love everytime you get to sit down for a knit sesh with it and then when you get to wear your finished piece.
The Starlight pullover was designed from a need for a basic pullover with a collared neck that could really be worn with anything. I also needed a quick satisfying project to get a little dopamine hit, and this def hit that.
Materials Needed
5 Skeins We Are Knitters “the wool” or similar super chunky weight yarn, roughly 435 yards (this particular color is called yarnicorn)
Knitting is quickly becoming a fairly popular hobby and with it being the perfect time of the year to pick it up, I’ve put together a little guide for everyone hoping to make their first knitting project this season. When I first started knitting, I had no idea what to do. I eventually got a pattern and then had to google every step, every stitch, and it was fairly time consuming with having zero knowledge of knitting.
With these basics I’m going to show you here, you’ll be able to knit a blanket, a scarf, anything simple. And I highly suggest doing that to start. I made somany blankets the first few months of knitting. Like so many! I actually said once that I had no desire to knit sweaters and was perfectly happy and content to stick with blankets and scarves 🙈. It wasn’t long until I knit my first sweater. Best decision I made! Anyway, let’s get to it.
Longtail Cast on Method
Starting with getting your yarn onto the needles. The longtail cast on method is my go to for cast on. I really use this over any other method because it’s easy to do and I love the look of it. But there’s definitely a time and place for the others!
Knit Stitch
The knit stitch is basically the base of knitting. It’s kind of like the cornerstone of all other stitches. It’s a part of everything. In my opinion, you can make anything if you can do the knit stitch. For example, since the garter stitch is working all rows of knit stitch, you can knit an entire sweater in garter stitch. That’s literally using one stitch!
Purl Stitch
The purl stitch is your second needed basic stitch. Between knit stitches and purl stitches, that’s where all other more complex stitches are created. Knits and purls make rib stitch, moss stitch, stockinette stitch, drop stitch, etc. Once you’ve mastered the knit and purl stitches, I promise you are going to be going places.
Basic bind off
Once you’ve finished all of your knitting, it’s time to get all the stitches off of your needles, hence the bind off. This is basically knitting your stitches off. You’ll knit the first stitch, knit the second stitch, then left the first one over the second. You’ll then simply repeat this all the way to the end of the row and all stitches are off. When you have just one stitch left, you’ll cut the yarn leaving a bit of some length, then pull it up through the loop and then just give it a little tug to tighten.
With these knitting basics, I would recommend practicing by knitting a scarf to start. That way you can get the hang of doing garter stitch over and over. Here’s a free garter scarf pattern you can use to start!
September brings a changing of seasons and a time for new fresh knits. A season to re embrace knitwear and pick up your needles again if you tend to put them down during the warmer summer months. Start out with this simple oversized pullover vest, knit in a fluffy light wool and ready to style your autumn knitwear aesthetic.
The Everly vest was knit using size 10 mm (US 15) straight knitting needles and around 450 yards of We Are Knitters “meriwool” in hand painted. The colorway of this yarn is absolutely beautiful. We Are Knitters no longer sells this particular yarn, but I did manage to come across a few sellers online with it if you’d like to use the exact yarn. Otherwise, any chunky weight yarn will do, including We Are Knitters yummy yarn.
This sweater vest uses basic knitting skills. You’ll start with a longtail cast on followed by a 1×1 twisted rib, stockinette stitch, bind off, decreases, and picking up stitches. Once you’ve finished knitting the body panels, seaming will finish it off.
The Everly vest is perfect for these coming cooler days. Layer it over a turtleneck for the falls days of coffee and shopping, apple orchard, pumpkin patch, or over a heavier top for bonfire evenings. Come warmer weather, wear it over a tank as a classy sweater top.
