Colorwork Made Easy with the Latticework Scarf

I love the look of colorwork (and in fact wrote a whole book about colorwork knitting) but honestly I don’t do it all that often because I’m lazy.

One way to make colorwork knitting look a lot fancier without more work is to use a multicolored yarn in your pattern. That way it looks like the color changes a lot, but you’re just knitting with the same two yarns throughout.

Genius, right?

Try out this technique for yourself with the lovely Latticework Scarf from Knifty Knittings. Using a solid color for the background and a variegated for the colorwork, it makes a design that looks a lot more complicated than it is. This one is also worked in a tube so you can’t see the back and it’s super warm thanks to stranded knitting and a double-layer of scarf.

[Photo: Knifty Knittings.]

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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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