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Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Knitting

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The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week has been emotional for a lot of people, and has increased the popularity of RBG inspired knitting projects.

In case you want to bring a little of her style and dissent to your knitting wardrobe, I thought I’d collect some options for you.

You can also check out these designs on Etsy

Carissa Browning’s Dissent Cowl is available in knit and crochet versions and on Ravlery and LoveCrafts. She’s donating 100 percent of pattern sales until Election Day to the ACLU, which has already come to more than $20,000. It costs $5 and is worked in two colors of DK weight yarn.

Looking for more knitting patterns for knitted Cardigans? Check out these Knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

Knitorious RBG by Park Williams is a fun sweater inspired by an RBG collar with fun puffy sleeves. It uses worsted weight yarn, is available in eight sizes and you can get it on Ravelry for $9.

Then there is Andrea Rangel’s Dissent Sweater, available from Ravelry in a fingering weight pullover and worsted weight cardigan option. Both are $10 and come in 11 sizes.

You can add a dissent collar to any sweater pattern with this chart (also on Ravelry) from Colleen Humphreys. It’s perfect for a circular yoke sweater or cardigan.

If you’d rather knit just the collar, try the “I Dissent” Collar from Camille K. Lewis, which uses crochet thread and uses four different sizes of knitting needles. You can find it on Ravelry for $2.

You can knit a tiny judge robe with beaded “collar” with this pattern from By Tale or History Knitting Designs. It suits an 18-inch doll and is available on Ravelry for $5. The pattern also includes a two-piece suit, shoes and stockings, and you can make a regular lac collar, too.

Make RBG in mitten form with this design from Lotta Lundin. They feature Ruth with and without her notorious crown along with “I Dissent” on one mitten and “Fight for the things you care about” on the other. The pattern is on Ravelry and runs kr.75.00 SEK, or about $8.94.

Max Pfeifer designed a hat with a collar motif in his Dissent pattern, which is available in one size and can be downloaded from Ravlery for $5.

Know any other RBG inspired knitting patterns? I’d love to hear about them!

Check out this Ruth Bader biographical coloring book introduces kids to the crusading Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thirty carefully researched and beautifully illustrated pages highlight the important milestones in Ginsburg’s remarkable life, from her time as a law professor and her years on the U.S. Court of Appeals to her career as the 107th Supreme Court Justice.

 

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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.