Knit a Quick Little Shawl for Summer and Fall

Knitting a big triangle to use as a shawl or a wrap is not that difficult to do. It only requires you to know how to make increases so you can form the triangle shape.

Mama in a Stitch shows just how easy it is with her Knit Shawlette pattern, which uses two skeins of a pretty multicolored yarn and big needles to make the project fast and fun.

She also threw in a few rows of dropped stitches (where you wrap the yarn around the needle more than once as you form the stitch, then drop the extra wraps in the next row) to give it a more open look, but you can just work it all in regular Garter Stitch as well. Just remember your yarn overs at the beginning of each row to keep the shape going.

Very fun. Are you still knitting for summer? I’d love to know what you’re working on.

[Photo via Mama in a Stitch.]

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Not too long ago I was seeing a crochet pattern for a glasses holder shaped like a bear all over the Internet. It was super cute, and also useful as a place to put your glasses on your bedside table instead of just throwing them somewhere random.

This project stewed in my brain for a little while and I decided I needed to make a knit version, but I didn’t want to make a bear. If you know anything about me you might know that I’m a cat person, so of course my version had to be a cat.

The base is just a basic little basic worked from the center out to the desired size, then up the sides as long as you want them. Knit some ears and add embellishments to make it whatever kind of animal you want.

The way I figured out to work the base from the center out was to use a crochet cast on, which gives you an easier way to pick up stitches from the back of the cast on than if you worked a more traditional cast on for a knitting project. It’s kind of fun to do things in a different way from time to time.

This little project is adorable if I do say so myself, and even as a plain little basket not made into an animal it’s a cute way to keep your glasses or other little things in one place. I’m tempted to make one for my desk to hold pens or even little little scissors and sewing needles that are always on my desk but somehow always seem to get lost on my desk.

If you need a little holder for your glasses on your table, check out the pattern at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]

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