Can’t Manage a Big Sweater? Try These Tiny Ones from Vogue Knitting

I’ve gotten a bit off track with talking about sweater knitting this month, but I thought it would be cute to share these little bitty sweaters I saw on Facebook the other day.

The pattern is from Vogue Knitting, and it’s a free download but you have to register first. These are actually done as a little garland, which would be adorable, say, hanging in front of my office window (or, longer, on a little holiday tree) but you could absolutely knit each one and keep them separate to use as ornaments or gift tags (especially if you’re kind of enough to be knitting someone a sweater as a holiday gift).

These are great little projects to use up your odd balls, and they’re rated easy but will give you some practice with skills like stripes and teensy cables.

Looking for more wee clothes for the tree? I have a wee striped vest over at About that you could easily add sleeves to if you like. (The tiny stocking is pretty darn cute, too, though not technically clothing.)

Have you knit any tiny clothes to use for holiday decorations? I’d love to hear about them.

[Photo via Vogue Knitting.]

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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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