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Check Out a Sneak Peek of the New Vogue Knitting

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vogue knitting winter 2012The preview for the winter issue of Vogue Knitting just came out, and there are a lot of goodies in there if you’re looking to warm up for the season.

There are five main “stories” in the issue, including odes to red, citron and blue, a look at casual sweaters for guys and bold intarsia knits inspired by nature. The magazine also introduces readers to Michael Bastian and offers a reversible Fair Isle sweater for men.

You’ll also find articles on the joys of Garter Stitch and knitting off-gauge and get tips on finishing intarsia and, ironically enough, see an Elizabeth Zimmermann pattern reimagined in stockinette.

It’s kind of funny given that this is a winter issue that the pattern that first caught my eye is one of the citrons: a sleeveless shell with a high neck and bold traveling stitches that’s really striking, though I’d never knit it in that color.

See anything you like? Spill it!

[Photo via Vogue Knitting.]

 

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.