Ideas for Getting Your Knitting Life Organized

This post on how to set up and keep a project planner is specifically about crochet, but in this case the crafts are kind of interchangeable.

Sweet Everly B went through a lot of trial and error as she was trying to come up with a system for storing notes, patterns and tools to take on the go.

This blog post takes you through the systems and apps she tried to use to get her stitchy life together and the system she finally ended up with (spoiler alert: it involves a leather notebook cover with a couple of different notebooks for reference and project notes, as well as a zipper pouch for supplies).

This sounds like an amazing setup and I’m totally jealous with my Moleskine I sometimes remember to write in, and my supplies dumped in the bottom of my gigantic purse.

Do you have a system for keeping up with pattern notes and materials? I’d love to hear about it. Goodness knows I could use the help.

[Photo: Sweet Everly B.]

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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy.

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]

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