Knit a Whole Set of Ribbed Garments Out of Your Dreams

I started to share one of these patterns before, but when I saw it was going to be a whole set I knew I needed to wait until they were all released to share because otherwise I’d just have to keep sharing them over and over.

The Boston series from Magdalena Parker (these are all Ravelry links, by the way) started with the skirt, which is a curve hugging, shapely skirt worked (like all the pieces are) in a wide 6 by 2 ribbed pattern. There’s narrower ribbing at the waistband to make a foldover elastic casing, and at the bottom edge. It’s worked in the round from the top down is sport weight yarn and comes in 10 sizes. It’s suggested you pick a size 4 inches/10 cm smaller than your actual hip measurement.

This one was released with the coordinating sweater, a top down crew neck that’s meant to be worn with about 12 inches/30 cm positive ease, which is a nice contrast with the skirt. These all call for luxurious cashmere yarn, but you can use something a little more budget friendly if you like.

Those two pieces alone would be plenty to make a great outfit or be worn separately, but now there’s also a V-neck sweater and a crew neck vest and V-neck vest. Ease on the vest is considerably less, with about 2 inches/5 cm of positive ease suggested. That makes it possible to wear the vest as a tank top if you want.

So basically you could knit this whole set and have a zillion options for mixing and matching. I only wish there were a bundle so you could buy several of the patterns at a discount!

This designer as it turns out seems to love to make sets, so if you want to be matchy matchy check out their other designs, some of which include socks, hats or even pillows. So fun!

[Photo: Magdalena Parker]

A Little Ribbed Tank Knitting Pattern [Knitting]

Bold Ribbed Shrug Knitting Pattern [Knitting]

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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