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Knit a Long Vest to Transition into Fall

August 22, 2022 by Sarah White

Fall is my favorite season, and now is a great time to start knitting projects that are made for those transitional seasons of fall and spring. The Ravishing Vest by Joji Locatelli is a great option to knit and wear now and soon, regardless of what hemisphere you’re in.

Because it’s a vest, and worked in sport weight yarn, it isn’t too heavy to wear while the weather is still warm, but because it’s duster length it will be perfect for wearing over leggings and a top when it’s cooler out.

The textured stitch pattern makes it fun even though it’s a big project (you can always knit a shorter version if you like, too). The pattern comes in 8 sizes up to a 58 inch chest measurement, but it’s meant to be worn open so the sizing is flexible.

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Joji Locatelli]Looking for more Vest patterns to knit? Check out these Vest Knitting patterns on Etsy and these designs on the Sirdar Website.

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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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