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Knit Some Gifts (or Warmth for Yourself) Quick with Arm Knitting

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Arm knitting has been pretty popular this year, and I have to admit, though I don’t always like the look of arm knit projects, it is pretty fun and it’s a quick and easy way to use a lot of yarn.

If you’ve missed out on the trend so far, here’s a little bit of the history, a tutorial and some more information.

I’ve been seeing more patterns popping up on Pinterest and elsewhere again (and I’m thinking hard about attempting an arm-knit blanket) so I thought it was time to share some again.

The Arm Knit Cowl from the Kurtz Corner is a classic style in the genre, and includes solid color and striped versions, as well as tips for how to finish your project.

Creating Laura has the fun Triplet Shawl, which makes a triangle you can use as a shawl or scarf or tie on over your bathing suit at the beach.

And Universal Yarn has the Big Impact Cowl (PDF), which uses two strands of a multicolored bulky yarn for, yes, big impact.

Have you tried arm knitting? Would you knit these projects, whether for yourself or for gifts? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Check out this Arm Knitting book on Amazon.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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.