What Are Your Knitting Resolutions?

What to do with yarn scraps and leftovers Happy new year! (I almost typed Happy new yarn, but maybe that’s appropriate, too.)

I hope that amid your resolutions to eat healthier, exercise more and get your place more organized that you leave some room for knitting-related resolutions, too. I’ve outlined a few of my favorites to get you started over at About, and I would love to hear yours (if you haven’t already shared them! I am going to read through all those comments and hope to tailor some of my content this year to what you’re wanting to do with knitting this year.).

I always need to get my knitting stuff more organized, and I’m perpetually trying to lessen my stash by knitting more and bigger projects that will use more of my stash (still working on that scrap afghan pictures above). I also want to knit more for fun, which is not to say that all knitting isn’t fun, just that I want to knit more from other people’s patterns instead of items of my own design. Less thinking = more fun. For me, anyway.

I hope that 2016 brings you new knitting skills and yarny adventures! Happy knitting!

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.

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