Knit a Rainbow on Your Sweater

Whether you’re still knitting for Pride, want to commemorate a rainbow baby in your life or you just love the colorful addition of rainbow stripes to anything you knit, the Rainbow Over sweater from The Drunk Knitter is a pretty way to stitch up some color.

The yarn used in the original pattern is actually a rainbow gradient, which makes it super easy to knit because you don’t have to change colors. But this would also be a great use for any rainbow colored mini skeins you have on hand.

The pattern uses worsted weight yarn and is worked from the top down with a circular yoke and bishop sleeves for high drama. You could also shape the sleeves more traditionally if you don’t want all that extra fabric at the wrist.

The pattern comes in 8 sizes to fit chest measurements ranging from 30 to 62 inches or 76 to 157 cm, with zero to 4 inches/10 cm of positive ease. The body is a little cropped but you can always make it longer if you want to. This would be super cute as a dress, too, though of course you’d need a lot more yarn and probably need to alter the pattern to make a tunic or dress.

The yoke has a bit of a textured stitch pattern, while the rest of the body is worked in stockinette stitch, making this a pretty quick and easy knit.

You can find the pattern on Ravelry or on the Drunk Knitter website.

And if you’re looking for more uses for those mini skeins, check out my post all about ways to use mini skeins from advent calendars or elsewhere. And if you are looking at rainbow knitting patterns because Pride is every day, check out my Pride knitting patterns and more general rainbow knitting patterns.

[Photo: The Drunk Knitter]

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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