Knitting 24/7: 30 Projects to Knit, Wear, and Enjoy, On the Go and Around the Clock
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People who love to knit are determined to find time to practice their craft, despite the many roles they fulfill throughout the day. They knit while traveling or commuting, while waiting for their kids, while socializing. Times like these call for projects that are easily transportable and have stitch patterns that are simple to memorize.
Véronik Avery has created 30 such projects for Knitting 24/7, a collection of stylish clothing and accessories that make use of those “in-between” times when we’re busy, yet our hands are free. Ranging from sweaters, scarves, and shrugs to hats and mitts, the projects represent both what knitters want to wear and what they actually have time to create. The book’s gorgeous color photographs capture knitters in a range of settings—a morning at work, a dinner with friends, a relaxing weekend afternoon—evoking the time of day when each wardrobe item might be worn.
Véronik Avery
VÉRONIK AVERY is the creative director for JCA Yarns. Her designs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Handknit Holidays and Weekend Knitting from STC, Interweave Knits, Woman’s Day, and the webzine Knity.com. Avery lives in Montreal.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Book Review:A perfect book for the On the Go Mom. As a knitter, I know how it feels to want to knit 24/7 but realistically as a mother we know that is literally impossible. There are dishes, and laundry to be done that are keep you from your knitting. What about those moments in between where you could easily be multitasking, like, standing in line at the post office, or commuting on the train to drop your daughter off at dance.There are great moments to sneak in some knitting and this is a book full of patterns that make great projects for those in-between moments. They have consistent patterns that are easily memorized and can be worked up while keeping your Mommy ears on instead of having your mind buried in a pattern. All these projects can be knitted quick and easy, which makes this a great book for the busy mothering knitter.I give this book 5/5
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5at least 3 patterns worth knitting, good methodsincluding toe up socks with reinforced garter st heels and toes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This collection of patterns is fresh and exciting. The variety is nice. Socks, hats, sweaters and more. The instructions are well written and the pictures are very good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lots of fun projects, mostly small, for the experienced knitter. i was particularly thrilled to find a pattern for a good string bag, such useful things! And some some lovely mittens/scarves.However, if you are a beginner, this may not be for you. The projects are small, but they require chart reading and a good familiarity with a variety of stitches. Great on the go stuff for knitters who are comfortable memorizing a chart and can keep it in mind, and know what a tbl and ssk are without having to look them up.
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Knitting 24/7 - Véronik Avery
INTRODUCTION
Monday, 3 p.m.: One woman is squeezing in an extra errand before picking up her children at school, another sprints to a meeting, while a third leads a yoga class. They all have different, busy schedules, but they’re all passionate knitters, determined to find time to knit.
I relate to these women—as a knitwear designer, writer, and mother, I’m often multitasking and, in the midst of it all, I like to knit as much as I can. In fact, I always take a project with me wherever I go, just in case I am able to find a few minutes to work a few rows. The truth is I’d like to be knitting 24/7—that is, all the time. When I have a project in my bag, I don’t even mind a long commute or having to wait in line—in fact, I even get excited knowing that a stretch of uninterrupted knitting time awaits me.
I often have many projects going at once, but I make sure they are diverse in size and complexity to suit a variety of circumstances. For instance, I have the luxury of space while I’m at home and don’t mind if my project takes over the couch and the coffee table, but a sprawling project like this won’t work on the subway. And just as I wouldn’t wear mittens in July, I wouldn’t knit a heavy wool shawl poolside during the summer. Similarly, I wouldn’t take a multicolored yoked sweater to one of the very social knit nights that I enjoy with my friends.
I designed the projects in Knitting 24/7 to be portable and to make use of our extra
time—those nooks and crannies in our lives when we are busy, yet our hands are free to practice our craft. Many of us like to knit while we travel, wait, watch, or listen, and times like these call for projects that can be easily stowed in a bag and contained in our laps. They also call for easily memorized stitch patterns so that charts are not needed once the pattern has been established. For instance, the lace pattern in the Arrowhead Kneesocks (this page) requires only a 4-round repeat, and the complex appearance of the diagonal mesh in the Linen Market Bag (this page) is created by working a very simple openwork pattern and then repositioning the beginning-of-round stitch marker every sixth round. Projects like the Fleur de Lys Hat (this page) include colorwork, but with only two different shades of yarn to avoid tangles.
Almost every project in this book is small and can be completed quickly, giving even the busiest knitter a sense of accomplishment. Plus small knitted items are perfect gifts that are universally beloved, and at the same time require little yarn. I also included a few larger projects that I consider mindless knitting
for times when there is room for a bigger project but one’s focus cannot be on a chart or stitch pattern. Circular knitting is one of my favorite ways to knit mindlessly The Elemental Pullover (this page), for example, is knitted circularly from the bottom up in Stockinette stitch, providing hours of easy knitting during which the mind is free to wander. The Fir Cone Shrug (this page) is an example of mindless back-and-forth knitting, calling for an easy-to-memorize stitch pattern and serving as a lap blanket while being knitted.
All of the projects in Knitting 24/7 are stylish and functional because, in addition to wanting to find as much time to knit as possible, most of us want to look as good as we can all the time—be it a morning at work, a dinner with friends, or a relaxing weekend afternoon. For that reason I have organized the patterns into a.m., p.m., and weekend, as these are often the categories that define our wardrobes. These pieces are classic yet feminine and provide a wealth of options for our varying needs from the time we wake until we go to bed. I hope that this blend of projects—delicate stoles, warm scarves, pretty gloves, jaunty caps, vests, shrugs, and so on—will help you keep your needles clicking and your wardrobe special, no matter how much or how little time you have to knit.
PATTERNED MITTENS
While the idea for some knitted items begins with the yarn, these mittens were inspired by a hand-printed abstract fabric designed by Gudrun Sjödén. I received a pouch made from this fabric as a giveaway from Selvedge magazine, and I found the color combination—charcoal and green spiced up with yellow and pink—so appealing that I knew I had to find a project for it. I incorporated the palette into this pair of modern mittens with a simple striped Garter cuff and slipped-stitch patterning on the hand.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Approximately 7 (7 ½, 8)″ hand circumference
YARN
Harrisville Designs New England Shetland (100% wool; 217 yards / 50 grams): 1 hank each #7 Tundra (A), #49 Charcoal (B), #34 Aster (C), and #6 Cornsilk (D)
NEEDLES
One set of five double-pointed needles (dpn) size US 1 (2.25 mm) Change needle size if necessary to obtain correct gauge.
NOTIONS
Stitch markers (one in contrasting color for beginning of rnd); waste yarn
GAUGE
25 sts and 32 rnds = 3″ (7.5 cm) in Slip Stitch Pattern from Chart
NOTES
When changing colors in Garter Stripe Pattern, leave old color hanging in back, bring new color from below, over old color and to the back before slipping the first st and knitting the second.
STITCH PATTERN
Garter Stripe Pattern
(any number of sts; 4-row repeat)
Row 1: With A, slip 1, knit to end.
Rows 2 and 3: With B, slip 1, knit to end.
Row 4: Repeat Row 1.
Repeat Rows 1–4 for Garter Stripe Pattern.
LEFT MITTEN
CUFF
Using waste yarn and provisional CO of your choice, CO 32 sts. Change to A and Garter Stripe Pattern; work Rows 1–4 twenty-three (25, 27) times, then work Rows 1 and 2 once.
Carefully remove waste yarn from CO and place sts on needle. Using Kitchener st (see Special Techniques) and A, graft last row to CO row.
HAND
With RS of Cuff facing, using A, beginning at graft, pick up and knit 1 st for every Garter st ridge along side edge of