Knit a Simple Pocket Scarf on a Circular Knitting Machine

As much as I love knitting by hand, and it will always by my favorite way to use yarn, sometimes it is fun to do something different. I have gotten into crochet more in the past couple of years, and also using circular knitting machines.

These machines are great for making quick work of big projects. I actually love doing scarves on them because you get a scarf that’s double thick, and you can keep it as a scarf or easily turn it into a loop, and it’s 100 times faster than knitting the same project by hand. This is my current favorite charity knitting project: using stash yarn and leftovers to make scarves to donate.

It might seem like this kind of project would get boring, but it hasn’t yet, because every scarf is a little different. I recently decided to change it up (and use even more yarn, which is pretty much always a goal of mine) by making a machine knit pocket scarf.

This project was made with yarn left over from a baby blanket, and while I still didn’t quite use all of it I made a nice dent in my stash. It’s worked in three colors, though you can use as many or as few as you like.

Finish off the edges then fold up the ends to make pockets as deep as you like. Mine are deep. Holding a phone would be no problem. I think holding a paperback book would be no problem, though I haven’t tried it yet!

Don’t have a circular knitting machine? No problem! Just make a long tube of knitting by hand and you can do exactly the same thing.

Get all the details on this one over at my blog, Our Daily Craft.

Do you use a circular knitting machine? I’d love to know what kinds of projects you make and what you’d like to learn about them!

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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy.

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