A new cardi essential for spring! The Flynn plaid cardigan design. This cardigan is your perfect oversized piece for the coming season. It’s ready to keep you looking good and feeling cozy on all the spring coffee shops and market outings. Throw it on with your jeans and tee, layer over leggings and your yoga wear, whatever style you opt for, this will up your game!
You only need the basic knitting skills to knit this cardigan! It’s a super quick knit using my all time favorite big needles. You guys know it, they’re a life saver.
Beginner knitter friendly, advanced knitter friendly, you can all do it. 🙂
Happy November! The season of the chunky knits is going strong. I love it. I love having a new piece in a few days time. I love having more time for all the things I love. This time of year gets busy and chaotic, but it really is also filled with so much sparkle and magic.
Speaking of sparkle, I am really having this glittery moment. My last design, the glitter era pullover (speaks for itself) and now this one. This started out to be a very simple, basic design. After I took all of the photos for the pattern, I was looking back at them and just couldn’t find the “ah I’m so excited!” moment that I look for.
So I looked at it for a bit and figured it could do with some color across the front. That turned out to be the perfect idea. I had some extra sparkly tinsel yarn leftover from years ago, and wound that around some scrap of “the wool” from We Are Knitters, and there it was born. It got the color and the sparkle. I love it.
This is, again, an easy pattern. Beginners can do it! You’re only going to be working with some 1×1 twisted ribbing and stockinette stitch. A little bit of picking up stitches, a little bit of half duplicate stitch (I actually don’t know if that’s even a thing, but it’s literally what I did for the front) and that’s it!
Make it your own! You can leave it a solid color, work stripes into it, do stripes and the half duplicate stitch, whatever your heart desires. You got this! Have fun with it!
After a bit of trial and error, I have the final design to show you! I was really debating between adding a graphic on the front or sequins. However, those both just seemed too tedious and time consuming for this point in the summer.
I wanted the neckline to have something extra though, so I decided to add another round of ribbing to the neckline, making it a different color and a little longer.
I really love the way it looks. It was easy enough to do, and in my opinion, gave it that extra edge I was looking for, figuratively and literally.
The peachy sunsets tee is the perfect heading into fall knit wardrobe essential. Its knit holding two strands of We Are Knitters the cotton together at once, giving it a heavier drape and warmth. But still not too warm! I think it would also be super adorable layered over a long sleeve top.
The colors I used for this were Yarnicorn and salmon pink for the entire body and first neckline. The second neckline is yarnicorn and aquamarine, which is such a gorgeous blue!
This pattern is suitable for all levels of knitters! It uses basic stitches and techniques, perfect sized knitting needles (8mm which is a US 11), and knits up fairly quickly. If I had unlimited knitting time, I have a few other colors I’d love to make it in!
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