The Branches and Buds Pullover is a gorgeous sweater designed by Carrie Bostick Hoge in Making No. 1. The Branches and Buds Pullover is a top down sweater. After knitting the bottom up Lyngen sweater, I wanted to see how I liked a top down approach. I found it a lot of fun, since I […]
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DIY: Knit Deep Woods Toque by Kiyomi Burgin
After spending a month knitting my Lyngen sweater, I wanted a quick knit. So, I knit the Deep Woods Toque by Kiyomi Burgin for Needle Leaf Knits. This pattern was originally published in Knitscene Winter 2015, but you can also purchase it on Ravelry. To knit the hat, I used about 1.1 skein of dark […]
DIY: Knit Undergrowth Hat and Free Pattern by Mandy Powers
The Undergrowth Hat by Mandy Powers was published in Knitty Magazine, Winter 2011. Beautiful leaves, inspired by hostas, adorn the hat in stranded colourwork. When I first joined Ravelry, I remember seeing this hat pattern and I fell in love with it. At the time, though, I didn’t know how to knit (I only learned […]
DIY: Knit Lyngen Sweater by Dianna Walla
This fall, I knit my first sweater, the Lyngen Sweater by Dianna Walla from Making No. 5. The Lyngen Sweater is a yoke sweater knit from the bottom up. It has some waist shaping and back shoulder shaping. This was my first time using wrap-and-turn short rows, but they weren’t hard to do! Since the sweater […]
DIY: Knit Laurus Hat and Free Pattern by Dianna Walla
The Laurus Hat is a beautiful and easy hat designed by Dianna Walla. I found her blog Paper Tiger when I was browsing knitting blogs one day. I was surprised to see she had designed the Pine Bough Cowl, one of the first items saved when we first joined Ravelry. So I fell down the rabbit […]