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  • Sweet as Sprinkles Sweater

    Sweet as Sprinkles Sweater

    Introducing the Sweet as Sprinkles sweater design! You’re going to love the ease of wear, ease of knitting, ease of movement. This sweater has a cozy drape made by using size 12mm needles and a basic stitch. The Sweet as Sprinkles sweater will be there for you year round.

    I used Sandnes Garn Poppy in the color called tutti frutti. It. is. gorgeous. There are no words for how much I enjoyed knitting with this yarn. And they have many colors of it, so that’s a plus! But I recommend the tutti frutti because it looks like a funfetti cupcake and will make you happy ❤️.

    This pattern uses basic knitting skills, nothing complicated. You’ll need to know the longtail cast on method, 1×1 twisted ribbing, stockinette stitch, bind off, picking up stitches, and seaming.

    For the sweater itself, you’ll need 6 skeins of sandnes garn yarn and sizes 8mm (US 11) and 12mm (US 17) straight knitting needles.

    Purchase the Sweet as Sprinkles pattern here!

  • Tara Cardigan Design

    Tara Cardigan Design

    Yarn – 7 skeins Wool and the Gang alpachino merino in the color ivory.

    Needles- Size 12mm (US 17) straight needles.

    Knitting Level- Easy

    The Tara cardigan is knit using a super soft alpachino merino wool from Wool and the Gang. Using my classic method of larger needles than the recommended, the softness of this piece is extraordinary. Really, you’re just going to want to squish it. And feel free to do so.

    This cardigan is knit flat using size 12mm or US 17 straight needles. I’m often asked where my needles are from, and they’re all Wool and the Gang or We Are Knitters. I love their needles! I’ve had them for many years and haven’t had any issues.

    The skills used are basic. You’ll need to know the longtail cast on, stockinette stitch, 1×1 twisted rib, increases (for the sleeves and ruffle), bind off, and picking up stitches.

    This pattern is available for purchase here!

  • Crop Winter Sweater Remake

    Crop Winter Sweater Remake

    Using some of my yarn from my stash, I decided to make a spring/summer colored version of my cropped stripe winter sweater. I’ve always wanted to make another of this one, but it’s one of those things that just got put on the back burner and I haven’t had much time to do it. You wouldn’t believe how much busier life gets when your kids start getting older. Everyone used to always tell me to enjoy them while they’re young and I could not understand that. I do now. Do I ever. I have very little time.

    This sweater however, does not take very much time. It did take me a few days start to finish, but if I’d had the time, definitely could have been done in a few hours. That’s one of my favorite things about these big chunky knits. They take so fast!

    I used all the funnest and brightest colors I had. My friend said they reminded her of the tropical starburst! These colors just summed up the colors of summer. The light and happy.

    The best part is that I ran out of my pink yarn after I finished the first sleeve, I’d already done the body panels. I frantically looked through all my yarn bins hoping I had just a small amount of that somewhere, checked what sweaters I’d used it on, hoping maybe they were easy to take apart ones. No such luck. So I chose an ivory yarn and then with the tail ends of the pink, made a sort of duplicate stitch heart. It’s honestly kind of terrible looking. Doesn’t even look like a heart. But I feel like just adding that little pink to the ivory balanced it all out and made it a little fun!

    The yarns I used for this were:

    Lime green- Knit Collage spun cloud

    Pink- Wool and the Gang “crazy sexy wool”

    Orange, blue, and purple- We Are Knitters “the wool”

    You can buy the cropped striped winter sweater pattern here!