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These Knitting Fails Should Make You Feel Better

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Knitting fails to make you feel better about yours. We all have craft fails from time to time, including and especially in our knitting.

Sometimes the only thing that can make you feel better is remembering that other people have failed at knitting in the past, often spectacularly, and many of them were kind enough to provide photographic evidence of that fact.

Check out these 17 Hats that Went Horribly Wrong from our pals at Top Crochet Patterns (most of them are actually knit) the next time you need to remember that we all mess up sometimes, and it’s a good thing our mistakes are made in yarn, and we can just rip them out and try again. I call it hiding the evidence.

Have you ever had an amazing knitting fail? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Top Crochet Patterns.]

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  1. I didn’t realize the amount od difference using regular yarn as opposed to sport weight yarn would make. My hat would have fit Hagrid.

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Stitch Your Favorite Fruit on a Sweater

The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.” 

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them. 

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits. 

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves. 

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit. 

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy. 

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]