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Knit Your Ribbons!

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Everyone knows that there are different ribbon colors associated with different illnesses, support groups… The Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer is perhaps the most famous and well known.

Here is a free dishcloth pattern that utilizes the Pink Breast Cancer Ribbon:  http://www.knittingknonsense.com/pinkribboncloth.html

Black is one that I look for as I lost a brother to Melanoma. I have a son in the US Army, so yellow is another. Here is a list of all of the commonly recognized ribbon colors and their meanings:

http://www.silvercharmsinc.com/pages/pages_shop.asp?action=by_category_link&category_name=About+Awareness+Ribbons

Dishcloths are so easy and quick to knit that you could knit up a whole plethora of them, for every cause imaginable.

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  4. I’m thrilled that you are offering the awareness ribbon for breast cancer pattern. However, I would lovhe end product. Is this possible? Thanks, Jean

Have you read?

A Perfect Little Ribbed Sweater Knitting Pattern

Last year I shared with you Maxie’s Tank Top by Ainur Berkimbayeva, mostly because I really wanted to knit one (and I still do, maybe this year I’ll finally get to it!). I also am really attracted to patterns that seem to look good on everyone, which this tank top does.

Now Ainur has released a sweater version of the top, known as Maxie’s V-neck, and it seems to have that same wonderful property of looking amazing on everyone, at least as far as I can tell from the pattern’s project page on Ravelry.

This is a top down, V-neck, ribbed top that can be knit with short or long sleeves. Bust darts help with the fit. There are also 13 size options available so you can find just the right fit for you.

The sizes are designed to fit actual bust measurements ranging from 29-32 inches (74-81.5 cm) up to 62-64 inches (158-162.5 cm) and the pattern has instructions for A-C cups, with modification notes in the pattern to help folks with D+ cups make their sweater fit them.

It calls for sport weight yarn, which is probably the only thing that kept me from casting on this sweater immediately when I first saw it because that’s not a yarn weight I typically have in my stash (certainly not in sweater quantity).

Which just gives me an excuse to go shopping! Ainur used Purl Soho Wigeon yarn, which is 100 percent wool from the Falkland Islands. You can check the pattern page for other options that people have used, though wool seems to be a near universal choice as of this writing.

Ainur also does pay what you can on her patterns so if the cost is too much for your current financial situation you can use a code on the page to get a discount. (That said, if you can afford it, please support designers to the extent they ask to be compensated!)

Check out the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Ainur Berkimbayeva]

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