Favorite Patterns

[untonuggan]

I'm curious - what are some of peoples'  favorite patterns? I have some folks in my circle who just started knitting, or who just got back into knitting, or are curious about knitting.

So here's some musings I have, if folks are up for it amidst holiday knitting and general revelry/chaos:

• What are you knitting right now? (Unless it's super sekkrit)
• What's a pattern you've knit before and have knit/want to knit again?
• What are some good patterns for beginners?
• What's a knitting skill (cables, bobbles, lace, reading charts, entrelac) that you're interested in learning (perhaps because the patterns are sooo pretty/interesting/whatever), and you want to learn? Perhaps other folks can offer good suggestions on how to learn that skill...

(P.S. I hope the mod is okay with this.)

Comments

[tephra]

1. What are you knitting right now?

Morgan - After many swatches in which I never got gauge, I'm sort of winging it with a "close enough" result. Hopefully.

Berroco's Surplus Blanket Coat - I'd link it but they redesigned their site and I can't find it. Good thing I downloaded a copy of the pattern. ^.^;

A raglan sweater for my new ball jointed doll.

And I have a couple projects I haven't touched in months. They're both knit with doubled sewing thread, Al Fresco Camisole on 5/0 needles and Omelet on 4/0 needles.

2. What's a pattern you've knit before and have knit/want to knit again?

Yarn Harlot's An Unoriginal Hat - I have knit it several times. It's quick and cabled, two of my very favorite things.

Actually I tend to repeat patterns a lot, it's a habit I am trying to break.

3. What are some good patterns for beginners?

Well the Surplus Blanket Coat is really just a pair of sleeves that you sew into blanket, so that's a quick project. The sleeves are knit top down and are just trapezoids, if you can cast on, knit, purl, and decrease you can knit them (you need to do increases too if you do the turn back cuffs, but I'm leaving them off).

I'm a fan of dishcloths or afghan squares for beginners because they are quick and you can try out all sorts of new skills with them.

1. What's a knitting skill (cables, bobbles, lace, reading charts, entrelac) that you're interested in learning (perhaps because the patterns are sooo pretty/interesting/whatever), and you want to learn?

Actually, I can't think of anything. Maybe illusion knitting, since I haven't done that yet, but it doesn't require a skill I haven't already learned.

Oh, maybe double knitting with more than two colors and with different patterns on the front and back. I already double knit but I haven't gotten that complex with it yet.

[untonuggan]

Oh yes, I love Unoriginal Hat as well! Also, thanks for mentioning dishcloths - I forgot to mention those earlier, too. ^_^