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Knit Along with Malabrigo: Temperance Shawl Knitting Pattern

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I love Malabrigo yarns, and am actually knitting a project with one of them right now.

If you’ve been hoarding a few colors of Malabrigo Sock, or looking for a reason to buy some, you might want to check out the Malabrigo Sock Knitalong, which is not about knitting socks but the lovely Temperance Shawl, which is knit with three colors of sock yarn.

This pretty design is available free on their website or on Ravelry, and the knitalong isn’t actually until April, so you have plenty of time to gather your supplies. Or start stitching now and you’ll be ahead of the game.

The shawl is a big asymmetrical triangle that includes Garter Stitch, eyelets, slipped stitches and more.

It looks like a fun knit regardless of whether you wait for the knitalong, but if you want all the details on that head to the Malabrigo blog.

[Photo: Malabrigo.]

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Easy Knit Baskets to Use All Your Stash

For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts. 

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts. 

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects. 

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version. 

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want. 

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do. 

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like. 

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.