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How to Turn a Sweater into a V-Neck

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How to convert a top down sweater pattern to a V-neck.I love V-neck sweaters, though I think I’ve knit more crew necks, a lot of the sweaters I buy are V-necks. Maybe it’s just because the patterns I tend to be drawn toward don’t happen to be V-necks.

The good news is if you want to add a V-neck to a sweater you are knitting, it really isn’t all that difficult to alter the neckline. These instructions from Basix Knitting show you how to turn a top-down crew neck, scoop neck or square neck sweater into a V-neck, which admittedly is a little more complex than altering a bottom up sweater, but is nonetheless doable.

Yes, there is math. No, it’s not scary.

This is also a great way to learn how V-necks work if you should happen to want to design your own sweater, which is always great knowledge to have.

Have you ever converted a neckline to a different style? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Basix Knitting.]

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  2. There seems to be no actual instructions here, nor a link to the instrutions. Could you please include it? I see one person has already requested this over a year ago, but the instructions are still missing.

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Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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