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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.

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Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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