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

[pebblerocker]

I re-taught myself to knit last year and made heelless socks, but it turned out I'd taught myself to do circular knitting inside out, with the bendy part of the needle closer to me and the needle points on the far side. This week I learnt to do it right-way-in and started a second pair of the same socks in a beautiful deep teal wool. So that's what I'm knitting now and a pattern I'm making again... and it's also an easy one for beginners if learning magic loop isn't insurmountable.

I'd like to learn a lot of things branching off from the socks. My next project will probably be fingerless mitts, which aren't much of a stretch. I'd like to do gloves but they seem a lot fiddlier. The new skill I'd like to learn is how to make socks with heels -- there are a lot of ways of going about turning heels so I'll have to pick one to try.

[liseuse]

That is also how I learned to circular knit, and I keep meaning to teach myself to do it the "correct" way, but it seems to work as it is, so I sort of can't convince myself!