Ethnic Knitting Gallery

Here's a beautiful rendition of the boatneck Norwegian ski sweater designed and knitted by Mira Whiting. From Ethnic Knitting Discovery.



"This was a quick and delightful knit. A great project for someone with little color work experience, and it helped me get over my fear of steeks!" -Mira Whiting Somerville, MA

Here are several versions of the Aran Poncho from Ethnic Knitting Exploration. The same basic project plan was used for all, but the finished products are unique.



This version was knitted by Alixandra Sebrechts.
"The poncho was a perfect project to carry around with me as it was simple enough to pick up and put down without losing my place, but the cables were just tricky enough to keep me engaged. The end result is impressive even though it wasn't hard to knit and I've been getting compliments and exclamations of awe (especially from non-knitters) that I could have possibly made something so complex." Also, I would say that although I would never before have picked a thick-and-thin yarn for cables, after this, I would absolutely do it again, which I think is kind of an important part of this piece. "The poncho was a perfect project to carry around with me as it was simple enough to pick up and put down without losing my place, but the cables were just tricky enough to keep me engaged. The end result is impressive even though it wasn't hard to knit and I've been getting compliments and exclamations of awe (especially from non-knitters) that I could have possibly made something so complex."- Alixandra, Bethesda, MD


This baby version is knitted by Kris Paige.

This sweater was knitted by Caitlin, who said, "I have to say it was one of the easiest things I have ever made. It knitted up so fast."

The design is the simple sweater from the Netherlands. In Ethnic Knitting Discovery, the sweater features a motif on the center front, but this shows that you can use a gorgeous multi-colored yarn and make the whole sweater with just Stokinette stitch and ribbing with beautiful results.

The body is knit in the round. There's minimal shaping for the square neck, with the neckband creating the curved shape. The shoulders are joined with three needle bind-off. The sleeves are also knit in the round and you can work cuff-up and sew them in, or pick up sts around the armholes and knit down to the cuff for a completely seamless garment.

The yarn is Plymouth Confusion, which is a really fun yarn made up of all different textures. It does all the work of changing colors for you! Here are the details:

from the Kaos Series Collection
Yarn Content: see label
Yarn Gauge: 3 sts=1"/US 10.5 needle
Yarn Length: 109 yds/ approx 65-75g skein

And some more photos from Caitlin:

This sweater, designed and knitted by Kris Paige, shows off the llama from the Andean chapter of Ethnic Knitting Discovery and the Norwegian Boat-Neck sweater design. Kris added bobbles to the design to give the llamas some rocks to stand on.



The yarn used in Plymouth Encore, a wool-acrylic blend machine washable yarn. It knits up at about 5 sts to the inch on size 7 needles. The colors are Encore Worsted MC: 848 (navy), and CC: Encore Colorspun Worsted 7510 (orange, yellow, and cream striping effect).

Kris used about 4 balls of each color. When I asked her how that happened, since the sweater looks like there is much more of the navy background color, here's what she said:

I think I know what happened: if you look at the sweater, while the licey stuff seems predominant, up in the pattern areas, the orange is the predominant color, because of the llamas and the bobbles. I can't swear I ended up with the same little bits on the floor, but basically, I'd say it was about even....

I love the way Kris used a variegated colorway for the contrasting color on this. The colors remind me of the winter sunrises here in Colorado.



Thanks for sharing photos of your sweater with us, Kris!