Knitting

Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas

Knitty Gritty Knitsters!

by

For all you Knitty Gritty fans out there who’ve been loyally watching re-runs of the show over the past year and a half, finally, there’s something new for you to watch. Tomorrow (July 3rd) at 12:30pmET/11:30amCT/9:30amPT, the one-hour special Knitty Gritty Knitsters airs on DIY Network!

Tune in to meet Knitsters across the nation including: Tori Spelling, Lisa Loeb, the Naptown Roller Girls, and many more! Travel with me from state to state as I collect knitted squares to benefit Warm Up America, from the likes of indie musicians, grandmothers, gallery artists, celebs, closet knitters, derby queens, and dads. Knit Loud, watch often! 😉

For more information on additional airing times and how you can donate your own squares to the cause, go to the DIY website.

Comments

  2. I LOVE the show!!!!! I wish knitty gritty was still being produced. Any hopes for a Christmas show at least?

  3. Could you please help me. I made this AMAZING messenger bag from your show on DIY …. it was the episode called IT’S IN THE BAG – I have had it so long and it’s falling apart … I have looked everywhere on the net and can not find it … could you please tell me where I can get that pattern

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]