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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Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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