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Knitted Calendar….I Think….

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Well my Swedish is a bit rusty, but I think this is a calendar. A knitted calendar. With the dates going from the bottom to the top, so this way, as time passes you can unravel it. How do I know this?

Well I knew you’d ask so I have an answer for you! I Clicked on This Link and looked at the pictures!

There ya go! Since there was a picture of a shopping cart on that page, I don’t think the pattern is free, but if you can get past the 2nd language thing, you might be able to create something similar!

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Comments

  1. You know Google Translator will translate the whole page, right? When I open the link in Chrome, it automatically identifies the language and asks if I want it translated.

  2. It’s German actually and you’re exactly right. It’s machine knitted and you unravel it. Loving the idea, but the price tag is a bit hefty!

  3. I think that would be a really fast year – once the kids or cat or dog got ahold of the yarn end, the calendar would go VERY quickly! Still a neat idea, though. It would be fun for a countdown-to-vacation or advent calendar with the things that would normally be in pockets on stitch markers or rings instead, so they would come off when you unraveled that day…hmmm…..

  4. as the commenter above me said, it’s German, not English.

    And the price looks to be for the calendar, not the pattern. I’m not sure that the dates/numbers are knitting. They seem to be printed on there. The letters are a little too perfect and similar.

    So I think if one wants to make it, knit a really long scarf. I think block printing would give the best print on the scarf without stretching it (so that unraveling it would line up with the dates), but that’d be a lot of work. Hm.. I’ll have to think about this.

Have you read?

Knit a Sweet Hood Covered with Flowers

I happen to live in the Northern Hemisphere, but I know we have a lot of Southern Hemisphere friends, too, who are heading into the cooler months as we are warming up. Whichever one of the seasons you’re in, you might want to  stitch up this sweet little hood.

This pattern by saskie&co is called snug hood and it uses two colors of yarn to make a close-fitting pixie style hood (almost a balaclava but it doesn’t cover your face, though there is a neck covering portion to keep you a little warmer). You can use the fingering weight wool and mohair held together that are called for in the pattern, or use a single strand of DK weight yarn.

The neck portion and the edging around the face are worked in ribbing in a single color, while the body of the hat includes an allover colorwork flower pattern. The project is worked both flat and in the round and there is colorwork that is knit flat, which means you’ll have to purl in colorwork (which some people don’t like; also, you can’t see what you’re doing as well on the back of the work).

The pattern comes in one size and the colorwork is charted. Testers noted this is a quick and easy project and a great way to learn some new skills (chart reading, working stranded colorwork flat) if you’ve never tried those things before. They noted the hood is cute, comfortable and warm, and a few said it didn’t take as much yarn as the pattern suggests, so bear that in mind if you’re trying to use stash.

Speaking of the pattern notes, check out all the cute color variations in the projects on Ravelry. From pink and red to blue and white to gray and cream, there are lots of great options to think about.

You can buy this pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: saskie&co]