16 free knitting patterns tagged vintage style

  • FrankenMitts

    FrankenMitts, for lack of a better name, since they’re neither gloves nor mittens but an unholy melange of both! by Severina from The Vintage Stitch-O-Rama. Find the free pattern here: link

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  • Beaded Mitts

    Elegant beaded fingerless mitts by Severina from The Vintage Stitch-O-Rama. Find the free pattern here: link

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  • Victorian Miser’s Purse

    This is based on the dozens of miser’s purse patterns I’ve seen and collected. It was adapted to the yarn and beads I had on hand. Miser’s purses were used through most of the 19th century to hold coins. Some purses had different colored silks or beads on each end to differentiate what coins were…

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  • St. James

    Difficulty: Advanced Beginner. St. James is a boatneck shirt knit top-down in the round, making it excellent for advanced beginners. The seed stitch tie and simple shaping make this sweater fun to knit without making it too complicated. One of my biggest style influences is forties and fifties “secretary fashion.” I was delighted to see…

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  • Speckles

    Difficulty: Intermediate. This pattern involves typical sweater construction such as shaping and seaming. It also calls for working a stitch pattern while following shaping instructions, and picking up stitches along edges. by Robin Dodge. Pattern no longer available.

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  • Babs

    This 1950s-style cropped sweater is based on Bugs Bunny’s disguise in the marvelous classic Warner Brothers short “Rabbit Seasoning.” It is one of several cartoons in which Bugs and Daffy Duck each try to convince Elmer Fudd to shoot the other. When Bugs dons this sweater, along with a wig and lipstick, Elmer is smitten!…

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