I’m off to Las Vegas on thursday to go to Glass Craft and Bead Expo. This is the opportunity to see the glass folk and also see what’s new. Well, this is something quite new and exciting and I can’t wait to see it all in person. It’s Coatings by Sandberg’s newest new product…dichroic extract. Huh? It’s in a bottle. You paint it on. You use it with any type of glass. It fires on and from what I have seen the possibilities are now endless with what you can do to make your glass that much more fabulous. I’m one of those types that don’t necessarily want what’s off the shelf to do my creating. I need to make something to make something with. That’s why I started making beads and we know the rest is history…go look at what they’re up to. I know it’ll get your mind racing!!
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Knit a Simple But Fun Sweater
From the front, the Simply Me Blouse from NORgardknitters looks like a plain, boxy, garter stitch sweater. The kind of thing you’d want to throw on every day, like the knit version of a sweatshirt.
But when you look at the back, you realize there’s more going on than meets the eye.
This sweater also has a giant pleat on the back, giving lots of volume and interest without making the knitting any harder.
Simply Me is worked from the top down, starting with the yoke being worked back and forth in rows. Extra stitches are cast on at the back to form the pleat (which is crocheted closed when the knitting is done) and the body is joined in the round under the underarms.
But if you know anything about knitting in the round, you know that to make garter stitch you have to knit and round and purl a round. To avoid that this pattern uses short rows so you can still knit every round and come out with garter stitch.
The sweater has a wide boatneck and a cropped, boxy shape with three-quarter sleeves. There’s no edging to interrupt the pretty waves of garter stitch.
The pattern comes in six sizes, to fit a bust from 31.5-33.5 inches, or 80-85 cm, up to 43 to 47 inches, or 110-120 cm. But there is a lot of positive ease worked into the pattern, so if you want less ease you can work it for a larger range of sizes. There are lots of projects on the project page on Ravelry, most of which show it in a solid color, but you can also see ideas for stripes or a fade. It calls for DK weight yarn.
You can find the Simply Me Blouse pattern on Ravelry, where it is available in English, Danish, French, German and Norwegian.
[Photo: NORgardknitters]
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