Ten Knitted Tank Tops for Summer

There are so many great tank top knitting patterns out there, but I love alliteration so here are 10 of them that you might want to get on your needles pronto so you can wear them when the weather really heats up!

Berroco’s Tank of Many Colors is a perfect place to start if you’ve never knit a tank top (or any kind of top) before. This one is just about as easy as it gets, but it’s still pretty and fun thanks to a shimmery yarn.

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Tank Girl by Vickie Howell is another pretty easy project that has a little bit more detailing to make it more interesting to knit and to wear. There are some cool dropped stitches to add a bit of punk flair, but you could always leave those out if you’d rather.

Add some stripes to your crop top with this retro striped tank from Sara Knits Co. This one comes in eight sizes and you can do the rainbow colors as shown, an ombre look or even just random scrappy stripes or a single thicker stripe.

The That Girl tank by Nikol Lohr is another fun one and it’s completely customizable to your measurements. It also offers sleeves if you’d rather have them.

Ribbing makes a big impact on the Fitted Tank Top by Shiri Mor, while fisherman’s rib is the star of the tank top from Craft Foxes.

Want to add a little lace to your project? Try the Lillian Tank Top by Amanda Reed, the Sugar Tank by Claudia Olson, Betty Zimmermann’s Heart Lace Top or the wonderfully named Sarah Tank Top from Christine Buhagiar.

Or if you really want to wow people with your knitting prowess (though the yarn does a lot of the work here, for sure) try the Red Fuji Tank Top from Ram Wools. It’s a show-stopped for sure.

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Santa and Saint Nicholas generally get all the good press, but Central European kids know you don’t want to just be good so you get presents from St. Nicholas; you also want to avoid the ire of Krampus. (He’s depicted as a human-like figure with horns and usually hairy or furry who gives birch rods instead of gifts to kids who are bad.)

If you’re the type to embrace the naughty side (or you just want to scare the children into good behavior over the holidays), maybe you’ll want to knit a Krampus sweater.

This one, from Sofie Amalie Laulund, is a top down circular yoke sweater with Krampus faces at the top and cavorting Krampuses further down the body, with some traditional Scandinavian snowflakes thrown in for fun.

Because of the large motifs there’s not a lot of room for adjusting the fit, but it is available in five sizes (the Ravelry page doesn’t say what the sizing is, and it says its worked with no ease but the photo looks like the sweater has a bit of positive ease, so if you decide to make this one just check the measurements and your own comfort level for ease when picking a size).

It also uses five colors, but there’s very little red and brown so you can probably use scrap yarn for those parts. It calls for DK weight yarn. You’ll want a background color that helps the creatures stand out. You could also work the snowflake bands in different colors if you want to mix it up.

The pattern is available in both English and Danish, and you can find it on Ravelry. This is the designer’s first pattern, which kudos to them because it’s such an ambitious (and fun!) project I’m happy to add to my collection of whimsy-filled knits.

[Photo: Sofie Amalie Laulund]

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