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Knit a Cozy Vest in Waffle Stitch

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waffle stitch vest knitting patternDo you follow any yarn companies or other knitting-related sites on social media? (I hope you’re following Craft Gossip at least!)

I love to follow some of my favorite companies because they often share free patterns and new patterns and posts on their Facebook pages, which means I don’t have to go visit their websites to see what’s new and great out there.

I saw this Waffle Stitch Vest pattern from Red Heart on their Facebook page the other day, and it just looks so cozy and lovely and easy to knit and warm that I had to share.

The pattern calls for Red Heart Soft, which is indeed a really soft, cozy yarn (I used it for a chemo hat and have knit baby hats with it as well). But choose any worsted weight yarn you like to warm up in no time!

If you do follow yarn companies and others on social, I’d love to hear your favorites.

Looking for more Vest patterns to knit? Check out these Vest Knitting patterns on Etsy.

[Photo: Red Heart.]

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Knit a Fish Pouch, for Reasons

I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]