A Post about Knitting, Twitter and…Budweiser?

When I saw this story I almost couldn’t believe it because it just sounds a little crazy. I mean, I have no idea at all how Jennifer Anton, Budweiser UK’s marketing manager, came up with the idea for the beer company to devise a knitting machine that would run on people’s tweets that include a special hashtag (#jumper4des, I know you want to know).

Just that is kind of crazy enough. But the sweaters the machine makes feature horses, of course, as well as more traditional snowflake motifs, and the words “Celebrate Responsibly.” Because this campaign is really all about getting people to avoid drinking and driving.

With Christmas jumpers knit by a robot.

Can anyone understand this?

It’s still kind of cool, I guess, and if you want one of the sweaters — which will be knit through Dec. 6 — you can enter for a chance to win one on the Budweiser UK Facebook page.

Maybe while people are on Twitter they should be reminded to celebrate responsibly by not drinking and texting, too. Drinking and knitting? That can be dangerous, too, but in a completely different way.

[Photo via MSN UK.]

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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

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