Join a Summer Sweater Knitalong

I do love a good knitalong, though I have to admit that usually I’m really excited about them at the beginning and then end up either not finishing the project or never posting that I did finish the project. So it was with the “Downton Abbey” knitalong I did earlier this year, and so it would probably be with the latest knitalong to be hosted by Shannon from luvinthemommyhood.

This one is about sweater knitting, which is great because if you start a sweater now it’s a lot more likely you’ll get it finished before the weather turns cool so you can enjoy it all season.

The full details on this one will be released on Wednesday, but the idea is to knit a sweater for yourself. The knitalong will run from July 24 to around September 18, which is plenty of time to knit a sweater. You can share how your project is going and get knitterly advice through her Ravelry group, which should be a lot of fun.

I would totally do this, except I really need to finish the sweaters (yes, more than one) I started last year but didn’t finish before the weather got too warm.

Are you thinking about sweater knitting already? I’d love to hear what you’re up to!

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]

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