Lion Brand Offers Patterns for Curvy Girls

It can be difficult for knitters who need to knit larger sized garments to find projects that are sized to fit them and attractive. Lion Brand Yarn is trying to make that a little easier with the introduction of the Curvy Girl collection.

These patterns — a tunic and a cardigan, one each in knitting and crochet — aims to particularly flatter women with curves.

Susan Haviland, Lion Brand’s design editor, said most Lion Brand garments go up to a size 3x, but they aren’t always designed specifically with full figures in mind.

The Curvy Girl Cabled Cardigan designed by Bobbie Fitzgerald is a long coat worked in Homeland that features cabled edgings on the cuffs and cardigan edges. Heather Lodinsky’s Curvy Girl Tunic is worked in self-striping Textures yarn and has openings at the shoulders for extra fun. (I really like the crocheted tunic, too.)

Both are available in four sizes ranging from 47 or 48 inches to 59 to 60 inches.

What do you think of the patterns?

[Photos via Lion Brand Yarn.]

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Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Xandy Peters]

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