Funny Videos and More About Knitting

It must be winter coming on, because it seems like I’ve been hearing about a lot of new humorous videos and websites with knitting as a theme. In case you’ve missed some, here’s a roundup of some of my favorites.

FedEx has a new commercial about its One Rate shipping, featuring a stitchy grandma (who seems to both knit and crochet, and of course the terms are confused in the commercial) who has made a cozy for everything in her daughter’s house.

I hope you have already seen the awesomeness that is swants (aka sweater pants), devised by the great Stephen West. If you want to make your own, there’s a tutorial on his website.

If you’re thinking about holiday knitting again, you might want to check out Holiday Knitting Explained in Gifs from Knit York City. Pretty much sums up what we knitters go through. Every. Year.

And finally, clearly these are not all handknit, but you’ve got to love a gallery of photos of animals wearing sweaters. Really. You have to.

Hope this brightens your day! Have any knitting humor to pass along? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via West Knits.]

Next Pattern:

I don’t know if it’s possible to look at the Snug Wrap from Sylvia Watts-Cherry and not smile. There’s so much fun stuff going on in it that if I had a bunch of sport weight yarn in my house I definitely would have cast this one on immediately after seeing it.

There’s stripes and circles of different sizes and colors, worked with intarsia. The wrap is worked sideways in both garter stitch and stockinette, so different sections also have different textures. Color blocking means you’ll use a lot of two main colors, and there are two more colors used for contrast throughout the piece.

As I mentioned, the project calls for sport weight yarn, and it’s already pretty big — 23.25 by 82 inches or 59 by 208 cm — so you probably wouldn’t want to use heavier yarn unless you just want to make it a super scarf. You could use even lighter yarn to make it more of a scarf than a shawl if you wanted.

The yarn used is a combination of Merino wool and recycled threads from La Bien Aimée’s yarn making process, so it’s a fun way to reduce waste while making something awesome.

The color motifs are depicted in charts in the pattern, but none of these are difficult so even if you’re new to chart reading you should be able to handle this pattern. The colors in the sample are so pretty but you can of course change it up with your favorites that will make you smile as you knit and wear this super fun pattern.

As usual, checking out the projects tab on Ravelry will show you some more fun color options. I love the idea of using jewel tones to give it a more wintry look, but the sky is the limit when it comes to color options.

You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sylvia Watts-Cherry]

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