sweaters

Do you feel lost when it comes to picking out your first knit sweater pattern? This week, Kelley shared her favorite sweater patterns during Technique Tuesday. These patterns all feature minimal seaming, have detailed instructions, and have lots of completed projects on Ravelry! 

 

Free Beginner Sweater Patterns to Try

• Ausable by Amy Christoffers 
• The Perfect Knit T-Shirt by Kaitlin Barthold 
• Sunday Morning Rib Stitch Sweater by Kaitlin Barthold 
• Casual T Shirt by Vera Sanon 
• Brick Sweater by Clare Lee

Kelley has knit the Brick Sweater several times, and has decided to knit it again with all our Technique Tuesday viewers! Grab some worsted weight yarn and join us for this informal knit along. 

This week Kelley was working on the Tsubaki Pullover by Hiroko Fukatsu, a paid-for pattern on Ravelry. While sharing the pattern in this week's Technique Tuesday, she gave her top advice for things to consider when knitting a sweater. Everything from the yarn to the pattern itself!

There's nothing worse than investing in a sweater quantity of yarn and countless hours of knitting only to end up with a sweater you don't like. What if we told you that the key to finding the right knit sweater pattern is already in your closet? With these tips, you'll learn how to knit a perfectly fitting sweater. 

Kelley is knitting the Stonecrop Pullover by Andrea Mowry, and she's using our new yarn, Sasquatch by Coeur d'Alene Yarns! There are a lot of skills to practice in this sweater, including short-rows, stranded colorwork, crochet bobbles, cables, and the tubular cast-on and bind off. Kelley shares some tips and tricks for a few of those skills!

Your cheap sweater's real cost That inexpensive sweater exacts a hidden toll: dust-borne pollution that reaches America.