Tag: knitting

Design | The Leslie Sweater

September’s pattern is the Leslie Sweater. Named after my dad. This sweater is a mix between menswear and chic, classy, and casual. I can see this being worn with leggings, skinny jeans, or even a skirt. It’s oversized, it drapes, it stays in place. Basically, it covers all bases.

The Leslie Sweater is not hard to knit. I have done a few patterns from yarn companies rated easy, and they were harder than this one. You’ve got to have the basic knitting skills down, make one increase, knit two together decrease, and picking up stitches. That’s all there is to it.

The cotton yarn I used for the Leslie Sweater is shiny happy cotton from Wool and the Gang. We Are Knitters “the cotton” is a lighter cotton, but will otherwise knit up the same result. Another cotton yarn I have seen many use is Paintbox Yarns cotton. I haven’t used that before, so I’m not exactly sure how it turns out, but others love it and it works with my cotton knitting patterns.

I think overall, the Leslie Sweater is my all time current favorite. My daily outfit usually consists of skinny jeans or leggings and sweatshirts, and this sweater has all the comfort of my favorite sweatshirts. It’s going to get a lot of loving!

If you’d like to purchase a copy of the Leslie Sweater knitting pattern, click here.

❤️Bethany

September 21, 2020
Design | The Winter Blues Pullover Sweater

The Winter Blues Pullover Sweater was the first sweater I ever designed. It made me so happy because it was literally exactly what I had imagined it to be. Super soft, oversized, cozy, and it didn’t take a million years to knit.

Winter Blues Pullover Sweater in Cream

This sweater takes 5 skeins of Wool and the Gangs Crazy Sexy Wool (6 if you want to make the matching neck warmer) or similar yarn. Then you will need a pair of size 25mm knitting needles, the huge ones, and you’re good to go!

Winter Blues Pullover Sweater in Blue

I have had many people mention to me that the Winter Blues Pullover Sweater was their first sweater they knit. It made me incredibly pleased to hear that they had no difficulties and the pattern was easy for them to follow. There’s nothing worse than being a beginner knitter and trying out a “easy” pattern and having it be confusing. Been there done that.

Winter Blues Pullover Sweater with matching neck warmer

The pattern also includes a matching neck warmer if you want a little extra cozy! The skills you’re going to need to knit this sweater are: casting on, knitting in stockinette stitch, increasing, binding off, and seaming.

To purchase your copy of the Winter Blues Pullover Sweater, click here

❤️Bethany

September 5, 2020
Design | The Candy Hearts Sweater

My latest design, the Candy Hearts Sweater. I started this piece back in November and had originally planned on it being a Christmas sweater. But I forgot how busy the weeks before Christmas get and didn’t get the time to even finish half of it! After things settled down a bit, I got to it.

This sweater is a pretty simple knit. I like to keep my designs easy, so even beginner knitters can attempt them. I typically avoid any shaping on the body panels because I love the look of the dropped shoulder so much! I live for slouchy, cozy tops.

I was going to do the full sweater in pink, but changed my mind when I was going through my yarn and saw some leftover speckled meriwool. It added such a perfect contrast to the sweater! I also decided to add a little to the wrists just for something extra.

In all honesty, I made a little mistake and didn’t discover it until I went to seaming the sweater. I realized one body panel was wider than the other. This turned out to my advantage! It gave such a cute roll to the neckline in front! And for how that mistake came to happen, I’d lost my original page with the cast on amount. So I’d tried counting the rows and obviously mis counted. But I LOVE how it looks!

I then finished it off with a little bit of duplicate stitch on the front to create “hearts”. And there, it turned into my perfect Valentines Day sweater!

If you’d like to purchase the pattern for the Candy Hearts Sweater, click here.

❤️Bethany

January 25, 2020