Easy Eyelet Yoke Cardigan Knitting Pattern

This week it’s cold again where I live, and I know a lot of the United States has been colder than it should be for the last few days as I write this.

There might not be time to knit a whole sweater before it warms up again, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy working on one as a hedge against cool days (and air conditioning) to come.

The easy eyelet yoke cardigan from Knitatude is a great basic with a little something fun to keep it from being too basic.

Hers is worked in a solid color and, as the name suggests, it includes eyelets on the yoke for added interest.

It’s worked from the top down so after that little bit of excitement its quick knitting Stockinette the rest of the way. And this pattern (available in nine sizes and intended to be worn with 5-7 inches of positive ease) is worked in medium weight yarn so it will knit up quickly because of that, too.

You can grab the pattern on Etsy.

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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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