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Skinny on Skinny
June 24, 2011
Have you tried our Skinny Cotton?
Have you worked with cotton that is hard to knit? It hurts your hands and it doesn’t have any sproing (elasticity) at all, so your stitches are uneven. Our Skinny Cotton is very different — its soft and supple. Really!
Blue Sky Alpacas Skinny Cotton is 100% organic cotton, comes in sophisticated colors, shows great stitch definition, and feels wonderful to wear. I’ve knit our Skinny Cardigan and our Shawl Collar Vest. I wear them all the time. They are easy to wash with the extra bonus: no pilling!
We have lots of great patterns for Skinny Cotton.
Our new Shawl Collar Vest
Skinny Cardigan
Purl Dot Cardigan
And for crochet lovers:
Valerie’s Cardigan
We also have a few adorable free patterns for Skinny Cotton:
Simple Baby Hat
and Girl’s Skinny Tank
There are many wonderful designers creating with this yarn.
Erquy by Heather Dixon, Army of Knitters
Violet , also by Heather Dixon
Botanica Medallion Cardi by Shiri Mor in Vogue Knitting
Very Cherry by Alana Dakos, Never Not Knitting
Have I given you enough ideas?
A cotton sweater for cool summer nights sounds perfect to me. Nice and easy to knit beside the pool, even on a steamy day. You can look for me, I’ll be the one in the shade.
Keep on knitting,
Merri