SpinCraft Knitting Patterns

Bottom Up: Colorful Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Inermediate. This sweater has color-chart knitting patterns to follow.
Yarn Suggestion: Best with a fine to medium weight yarn. My sweater uses a tweed yarn for the main body color, and uses two solid, contrasting colors for the pattern bands. Will need approximately 20 to 24 ounces, depending on size. If you follow my color scheme, you'll need approx 6 and 2 ounces of the solid contrasting colors.

Bottom Up: Colorful Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Intermediate. Will be folowing three color knitting chart.
Yarn Suggestion: Best with a fine to medium weight yarn. Will need approximately 20 to 24 ounces, depending on size. Several ounces of that will be two contrasting colors.

This sweater is knit from the bottom up with easy decreases for yoke. All in one piece. Charted patterns make it easy to knit in your favorite herd of sheep in a fenced field. Add as many sheep as you like.

Color and Texture Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Intermediate. This sweater uses stripes of different colors worked in a variety of knit-purl texture patterns given in charts.
Yarn Suggestion: Good with any type of yarn from fine to bulky. Will need approximately 20 to 24 ounces, depending on size.

Bottom Up: Colorful Knit Sweater

 Skill Level: Intermediate. Will follow four-color knitting chart.
Yarn Suggestion: Any weight yarn. Will need approximately 20 to 24 ounces in different colors, depending on size. Great project for using up all that yarn from your scrap pile.

Side: Colorful Entrelac Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Advanced. Must have a good concept of sweater shaping to succeed with this sweater. Once you get going on the entrelac, you will find it easy to do.
Yarn Suggestion: Best with a fine to medium weight yarn. Will need approximately 24 to 28 ounces, depending on size.

Side: Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Intermediate. My version is done in plain stockinette stitch throughout, and then worn purl side out.
Yarn Suggestion: Good with any yarn. Mine is made with a variagated dyed yarn. Will need approximately 24 to 26 ounces, depending on size.

Start at one sleeve and knit all the way over to the other. Measure right and it will fit like a glove! Can be made on a knitting machine. It's easy. Very easy to make vertical stripes.

Side: Colorful Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Intermediate. Easy to do stripes are followed by band knit from three-color knitting chart.
Yarn Suggestion: Good with any weight yarn from fine to bulky. Will need approximately 12 to 20 ounces, depending on size. This is a good project for some of your left-over colors.

Side to Side Sweater Knitting Pattern

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

This is a very interesting sweater that starts at one side, and is then knit to the other. After the body is finished, sleeves are picked up and knit to length. This sweater is very easy to get to fit, and it can be made as a pullover or a cardigan. As with many SpinCraft Knitting Patterns, you can add your choice of knit stitches, cables, lace or color patterns to this sweater.

Pieced: Easy Knit Sweater

Skill Level: Easy.
Yarn Suggestion: This sweater would be good with almost any size or type of yarn. Will need about 20 to 25 ounces (depending on size). This sweater is knit in pieces and then assembled.

Fun seams are the design element. You knit eight rectangles and join them with a special stitch and brightly colored yarn. Sleeve panels are made to fit with easy decreases. Knit by hand or machine. Small panels make this a good carry-along project.

Easy Pieced Sweater

Skill Level: Easy.
Yarn Suggestion: This sweater would be good with almost any size or type of yarn. Will need about 20 to 25 ounces (depending on size). A great option for a child size sweater.

This ancient clothing technique can be woven, knit or crochet in many variations. All you do is make a square with well-placed slits and fold it over for the arms. Short sleeves come to the elbow.