My Favorite Knit Patterns
Its hot, its cold.. the weather is spring, its summer and thru it all I love to wear my knit dresses all the time. Dress them up, dress them down but most important of all I’m comfortable. So I wanted to tell you about my favorite knit patterns.
M8058 - Knit Pull over dress with necklines. By far my favorite pattern. So easy, so quick to make, this pattern has six different views and the best part I can make it with two yards of knit fabric.
M7967 - Knit Pull over dress with front gathers. This is another winner in my book. I absolutely love this dress. I usually do a side slit on some of my knit dresses and this one gets heavy wear. Although I don’t care for the puffy sleeves I just grab the sleeve from M8058 and use them for this dress. Mimi G did a sew along for this dress so if you are a beginner you can follow along.
M7893 - Another winner in the knit dresses look. This is a wrap dress, I love this dress and its another quick make. The pattern shows you how to stabilize the seams and hem if you don’t have stay tape, which by the way my local fabric stores can never keep in stock.
Adrienne Blouse from Friday Pattern Company - This is a nice little pattern top, but you can extend it and make yourself a dress with this pattern. It is a must have. The blouse is fitted with a crew neckline but the beauty of this pattern are the sleeves. I will be honest on this I actually decreased the amount of volume on the sleeves and I’m glad I did. I usually use about 1.5 yards for this pattern and it comes in extended sizing up to 4X.
Adrienne Blouse
M7386 - Knit dress, skirt and tank top. I love this pattern the skirts, love a good knit skirt and if you have a yard of fabric and some elastic this one is perfect for a quick make,
M7386
M6966 - Misses knit skirts. Another fun one for skirts. Perfect with a tank top for the summer. Don’t confuse it with the next pattern below, because that’s how I found M6966. McCalls got confused with the pattern numbers and had a skirt pattern inside the cardigan pattern. It happens and they sent me the right one!
M6966
M6996 - Talking about mixing up patterns, don’t miss this Cardigan pattern, it has a gathered collar and belt. this is a winner in my book and I love this pattern. I made this pattern a while back and my pink jacket has so many puckers as I was getting back into sewing but I absolutely love this pattern.
M6996
Jalie 2795 - This is an unlined zip up jacket with or without a hoodie. It was my first time working with this pattern company and I will say that I loved the pattern, the instructions were perfect, the 1/4” seam allowance was a little scary I’m not gonna lie, but I will say the measurements were right on point and I even sent them an email asking about bicep measurements and they answered.
Jalie 2795
M7874 - Tops and Leggings for activewear. This is another great pattern, if you are like me and you like to workout, or go for a walk this is a great pattern. Or heck what if you are going for the activewear / loungewear vibe at home… this is perfect.
M7874
S9261 - It is by Mimi G, yes the cleavage is more than I like to show, but the skirt portion and pockets for this pattern is sewing gold. I usually borrow the top of M8058 along with the sleeves and use the bottom portion with the pockets and the skirt.
S9261
As far as knit fabrics, I usually use a double brushed knit fabric. A lot of knits are made out of polyester which if you are traveling its great stuff because you are never wrinkled. BUT polyester knits can get hot and if you get hot in the summer just be on the look out for a 100% cotton knit fabric, it may be a little bit more money but well worth it just keep in mind that the cotton knit will shrink on you considerably so if you are sewing with cotton knit you better pre-wash that and be ready to loose some yardage to shrinkage. Nice thing about knits in the summer…. no wrinkles!
