Knitting News: Arm Knitting in GIFs, A Gorgeous Knit Dress and More

Probably the strangest knitting-related news of the week (and this is a week when someone was sentenced to knitting following a road rage incident) is the case of a woman accused of smuggling fake $100 into the United States in knitting spindles. I assume by that they mean spools that should have held yarn but instead held $85,000 each in fake bills. Alejandrina Elsa Quispe Ramirez was nabbed at Logan International Airport in Boston.

Faroe Islanders are used to doing things their own way, and when they decided they wanted Google street view, instead of waiting for a Google car to show up, they strapped cameras to five sheep so they can take pictures while they are grazing. The video is actually pretty awesome. OK, maybe that one is the strangest knitting-related story of the week.

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I’m sure you know all about those gigantic arm-knit blankets that sell for hundreds of dollars on etsy. For some reason Tech Insider decided to make a series of GIFs telling the story of the blankets and showing the process. They clearly don’t know much about fiber, but it’s still pretty cool.

In other amazing feats of knitting, check out Samantha’s wedding dress on the Natural Stitches blog. This dress overlay is knit with Berroco Folio in a lace pattern with a pink ribbon accent (and some pretty awesome sneakers to go with it). Spectacular!

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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