Entries Tagged as ‘Patterns’

October 9, 2009

The Indestructible Hope Cloth

Designed by solmama and tested by the amazing Carla Schwartz June 2009
I had the honor of designing a cloth for the 2010 Calendar of Hope. You can buy my design, as well as 13 other hopeful designs for charity at the knitpink.com shop. You can also buy last year’s calendar, too. Help spread [...]

June 18, 2009

The Noro Slip Stitch Stripe Scarf

Designed by solmama November 2007
Do you love when people adorn their necks with the beautiful Noro Striped Scarf by Jared Flood, but the idea of doing 1×1 rib makes you shudder? Do you have a love affair with slip stitches or playing with color? Do you have Noro Matsuri, Tidiori or other similar [...]

May 24, 2009

The Addictive Baby Blanket

Designed by solmama April 2009
After knitting Mimi Davis’ One Row Blanket De La Harlot and finding out that a good number of my friends have babies on the way, I was inspired to write my own baby blanket pattern. I wanted an easy stitch pattern to remember that looked pretty with both solid and [...]

February 3, 2009

The Slippery Zig Zag Cloth

(right side)
Designed by solmama January 2009
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn
I knit this pattern with Peaches & Creme Pink Lemonade.
Size US 7 needles
tapestry needle

Special Instructions:
Slip all stitches purlwise
yif = with yarn in front
yib = with yarn in back
Directions:
Cast On 41 stitches or # of stitches divisible by 5 + 2 with 4 border stitches
Knit [...]

December 26, 2008

Greek Key Cloth

Designed by solmama January 2008. I finally got around to posting this!
Inspired by a stitch found in Pam Dawson’s Illustrated Guide to Knitting.  Knit by my one of a kind test knitter and editor Mimi You can check her out on ravelry as skullsnbats.
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn in 2 colors.
Mimi knit this [...]

December 7, 2008

Drop Stitch Equiangular Polygon Cloth

Designed by solmama December 2008
Inspired by Pam Dawson’s Illustrated Guide to Knitting and the drop stitch in a Chris Burgess Pattern.  Knit by my amazing test knitter Dawn You can check her out on ravelry as 2mayboys.
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn
Dawn knit this pattern using Sugar & Cream Fruit Cake.
4 dpns US [...]

October 17, 2008

Slide Step Rib Cloth

Designed by solmama October 2008
Inspired by a stitch found in a vintage pattern book printed on news print paper. I bought it at a garage sale minus a cover, so I don’t know the title of the book. Knit by my amazing test knitter Susan You can check her [...]

October 12, 2008

Morse Code Cloth

Designed by solmama October 2008
Inspired by a stitch found in “The Harmony Guides.” Knit by my amazing test knitter MissMandiGirl You can check her out on ravelry and on her blog.
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn in 1 or 2 colors (the pattern will specify when to use color A [...]

August 12, 2008

Harmonic Mosaic Cloth

Designed by solmama August 2008
Inspired by a stitch found in “The Harmony Guides” and wagsmeows‘ color combination on her version of my dash cloth pattern
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn in 2 colors
I used Peaches & Creme 163 Mar Di Gras and 3 Cream
Size US 7 needles
tapestry needle
Special Instructions:
All slipped stitches are purlwise.
wyib = with [...]

July 17, 2008

Life Saver Headband

Designed by solmama July 2008
Materials:
Any worsted weight 100% cotton yarn
I used Peaches & Creme Olive
Size US 7 needles
tapestry needle
Directions:
CO 15 stitches or # of stitches divisible by 2 + 1
Knit 5 Rows
Row 6: *p2tog, yo, repeat from * until the last stitch, p1
Row 7-9: Knit
Row 10: Purl
Row 11-13: Knit
Repeat Rows 6 – 13 until the [...]