Don’t have a clue where to start with your knitting? Well, that’s easy. You start with the toys, I mean accessories. In this post Elisa outlines what you need to get started. What are you waiting for? You’ve got to see the gorgeous scissors she’s collected! Over HERE at the Craft Snob Blog (say THAT fast 3 times!)
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A Tank Top to Get You Thinking about Summer
I knew I wanted to share this particular knitting pattern with you (mostly because I really want to knit one, too) and I grappled with the idea of whether it was time to pull together a roundup of tank top knitting patterns.
I think it might be a little early in the season for that, at least where I live, but I promise to have more tank top and summer top patterns for you soon.
In the meantime, I think Maxie’s Tank Top pattern from Ainur Berkimbayeva deserves its own post.
This sleek V-neck is worked in one piece from the top down. It uses fingering weight yarn (in particular, Knit Picks Lindy Chain, which is a linen and cotton blend and a chainette yarn that’s great for summer stitching) and has an allover ribbed pattern. This allows you to knit it with a lot of negative ease and still have it fit comfortably. It also includes bust darts for a better fit.
The pattern comes in nine sizes with an actual finished chest circumference of 23.75 to 50 inches, or 60.5 to 127 cm. The sample is shown with 7 inches/17.8 cm of negative ease, but the pattern includes tips on choosing the right size for you. It also says you can use the back neck portion of the pattern as your gauge swatch, which is fun.
Tank tops are great to wear by themselves when the weather is warm, but they are also great layering pieces, under a sheer top or even under a long-sleeved shirt or sweater when the weather gets colder.
I feel like I need a lot more tank tops and summer things that I made myself, so this one is definitely going on my list.
You can grab the pattern with a pay what you can cost model (please support designers the best that you can!) on Ravelry.
[Photo: Ainur Berkimbayeva]
Kimberly Chapman says
Heh, when I started reading I assumed you meant knitting the toys, since that’s where I started. And continued. And will probably die that way too.
That’s why most of my free patterns are toys (http://kimberlychapman.com/crafts/knit-patterns.html). It’s a good place to start for new knitters because you get to see the results of your efforts quickly, and generally speaking things like gauge and size don’t matter too much. Good for mamas because your kid might outgrow that sweater before you finish it, but toys are appreciated much longer.