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Use Slip Stitches to Make a Sweet Scarf

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Yesterday I shared a project with you that involved slip stitches on a super bulky yarn base. This scarf uses slip stitches, too, but in a more delicate way on a much lighter weight yarn, which gives them a totally different look. Here it’s almost woven as the contrasting color peeks through the lattice of slipped stitches.

Born Slippy from Hedgehog Fibers uses DK weight yarn and a slip stitch pattern to make a small triangular scarf or shawl. The pattern suggests using a tweed yarn and a multicolored yarn to make the pattern look more complex than it is. You could also use a self-striping yarn to give it a more uniform, less scrappy look than a yarn with more frequent color changes might give you.

And of course you can use leftovers from other project for the second yarn, so that the colors change whenever you run out of yarn. So many fun options!

Despite being on somewhat small DK weight yarn, this project goes pretty fast and is a great way to use a nice colorful yarn you have in your stash that you weren’t sure what to do with. Or try using worsted weight yarn and correspondingly larger needles to make a bigger version that would be super cozy and colorful for cold weather.

You can get the free pattern by signing up for emails from Hedgehog Fibers.

Looking for more cute DK weight shawls? I’ve also shared Tsukimi by Angela Tong, which is a single color garter stitch triangular shawl with a fun lace edging. This one uses about 500 yards of yarn, which could be a one-skein project (or two if your chosen skeins are smaller). It uses size 10 US knitting needles so it’s a really fast project for the weight of the yarn.

[Photo: Hedgehog Fibers

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.