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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I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

the simple cinching method mentioned above
sewing the stitches together
three needle bind off
grafting
crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!

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