Original Patterns: Knits for Everybody Sweaters and Oh My Bear!

Knitter Extraordinaire: Hannah (Ravelry ID)

Mods: Changed the worsted weight sweater pattern to a fingering weight, and added the bear chart from Oh My Bear. You can see her project page here; but more details can be found on her blog post, here.

What Makes This Awesome: As Hannah says in her blog post, when you are knitting a simple (read: kinda plain) sweater, you have free reign to add all sorts of details. For those of you thinking, ‘oh, but intarsia…. I’ve never tried that!’ don’t worry, it’s not intarsia. it’s duplicate stitch. It’s like tracing over your knit stitches with a different colour, almost like cross stitch. And if you haven’t tried duplicate stitch before, a baby sweater is a great place to try it- the small scale means that it’s so much less intimidating than on a big sweater. I have to admit, I never think of duplicate stitching on a sweater, despite the fact that I utterly adore embroidered details, and I love knitting. Why haven’t I put these two things together?! I absolutely have to try this soon.