A Simple V-Neck to Knit from Your Stash

I think a lot of us are knitting from stash more lately than we might usually, what with yarn shops being closed some places and not traveling to events or buying as much yarn as we used to.

Joji Locatelli has a great new pattern that you can work with a fingering weight and laceweight yarn held together or using worsted weight yarn. You can make it a solid color like she did or throw in stripes, do an ombre with all the balls of purple in your stash, whatever works.

The Charles Pullover is a top-down, drop shoulder V-neck sweater designed to be worn with 6 to 10 inches of positive ease. The design comes in 9 sizes ranging from 37.5 to 69.5 inches.

It looks like a great bit of cozy knitting the likes of which we could probably all use right now, and you can grab the pattern from Ravelry for $6.50.

[Photo: Joji Locatelli.]

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Not too long ago I was seeing a crochet pattern for a glasses holder shaped like a bear all over the Internet. It was super cute, and also useful as a place to put your glasses on your bedside table instead of just throwing them somewhere random.

This project stewed in my brain for a little while and I decided I needed to make a knit version, but I didn’t want to make a bear. If you know anything about me you might know that I’m a cat person, so of course my version had to be a cat.

The base is just a basic little basic worked from the center out to the desired size, then up the sides as long as you want them. Knit some ears and add embellishments to make it whatever kind of animal you want.

The way I figured out to work the base from the center out was to use a crochet cast on, which gives you an easier way to pick up stitches from the back of the cast on than if you worked a more traditional cast on for a knitting project. It’s kind of fun to do things in a different way from time to time.

This little project is adorable if I do say so myself, and even as a plain little basket not made into an animal it’s a cute way to keep your glasses or other little things in one place. I’m tempted to make one for my desk to hold pens or even little little scissors and sewing needles that are always on my desk but somehow always seem to get lost on my desk.

If you need a little holder for your glasses on your table, check out the pattern at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]

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