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Category: Designs

  • Winter Colors Scarf Design

    Winter Colors Scarf Design

    The Winter Colors Scarf Pattern

    I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I knit this scarf up over the past week and had so much fun doing it! When I first started knitting, I was really into knitting little mini blankets decorated with pom poms and fringe. I knit so so many of them! But they were basically useless. I didn’t need piles of mini blankets. That’s when I decided to venture a little further into knitting sweaters.

    I didn’t want to do a standard stockinette or garter stitch for this piece, so decided to go with a mesh stitch. It’s still nice and warm, but just has a little extra pizazz. Which I like doing for scarves. And I guess my sweaters as well! 😂

    This scarf is also, as I like all my knits to be, oversized! There’s just something about knitwear to me that just says, must be oversized. I cannot wear sweaters or scarves that aren’t oversized. Comfort and cozy is key. As well as easy to wear and a little color poppin!

    These little extra details were probably my favorite part to do of all! I still had some extra disco down yarn from wool and the gang hanging around. That stuff is so pretty. It’s basically just a really sparkly thin tinsel yarn. I held it together with the wool to make the fringe and love how it just adds a perfect amount of sparkle here and there. I’m all for glitter and gold.

    And the pom poms! I can’t believe I’ve never before thought to mix strands of yarn to make them have a tie dye effect! I absolutely love how they turned out. It’s opened up a whole new world of ideas for future projects in my head. Just thinking of the fun colors I could mix. So happy with it!

    The pattern for this cozy oversized colorful happy vibes scarf is available in my Etsy shop by clicking on the shop button in the menu above!

    ❤️Bethany

  • Sugarplum Fairy Ribbed Cardigan

    Sugarplum Fairy Ribbed Cardigan

    My latest design, the sugarplum fairy ribbed cardigan! I am absolutely in love with this one. It’s oversized, super soft and cozy, and a quick knit thanks to the large needles! I always prefer knitting this wool with larger needles as it really allow the softness and beauty of the yarn to shine through. And when you need a new cardigan in as little as a few days, it’s a win win.

    The knitting skills required for this cardigan are quite basic. You’ll need all the basic knitting skills, as well as twisted rib, which I use in almost every design. Then the edging for the front uses the picking up stitches technique, which is fairly easy once you’ve gotten the hang of it.

    I have a feeling I’ll be cozying up in this cardigan the rest of the winter months! You can purchase the pattern for this sweater in the shop link above.:)

    ❤️Bethany

  • Christmas Snowgirl Sweater

    Christmas Snowgirl Sweater

    I hope everybody had a fabulous thanksgiving! We decided on a whim to go to Minnesota for a couple days to be with my family for thanksgiving dinner. We then did a little shopping on Friday for some Christmas gifts and other essentials we can’t get at home.:) Then Friday evening we went over to visit my best friend and her husband and kids. Was a short and super amazing trip!

    I released this new sweater pattern thanksgiving evening, called the Christmas snowgirl sweater. It’s a cozy chunky knit with a duplicate stitch snowman girl on the front. I knit a little scarf for her with some of my favorite yarn, We Are Knitters “yarnicorn”, and then found some cute emerald green Swarovski rhinestone buttons on Amazon. I made little yellow pom pom ear muffs and then more duplicate stitches for the ear muffs band.

    This is a fairly quick knit and could easily be knit up in a few days. My knitting time is pretty sporadic so I can’t ever quite place exactly how long it takes. But it was about a week of work with an hr or so of knitting per day.

    Basic skills are required for knitting this sweater. It starts with a standard longtail cast on, then a few rows worked in 1×1 twisted ribbing, followed by stockinette stitch fir the remainder of the piece. There are some decreases for the front neckline and increases for the sleeves. And then, of course, you’ll need to know duplicate stitch, which is super easy if you haven’t done it before.

    I’m really excited to wear this sweater for the holiday season! It’s just got a happy festive vibe to it and is so warm and cozy to top it off. Plus, you’ll make everyone else happy too wearing it. You know, when they look at it. 😉

    To purchase the pattern for this sweater, clink the shop link in the menu above!:) and it’s currently 25% off through Sunday! As well as all of my other patterns!

    Happy thanksgiving weekend! 🎄❤️