One weekend last spring, my roommate came home from her family's farmhouse with an armload of old knitting magazines. We spent Sunday afternoon looking at the patterns, but then stacked them under the coffee table and spent the rest of the semester focused on studying. At some point during the summer, I started thinking about the patterns in the books. And I formed the bold and ridiculous idea to risk the knitters superstition and knit my boyfriend a sweater for Christmas.
Because I needed to know what size would fit, I first tried tracing out a sweater he owned. I eventually thought better of relying on my quick highlighter-on-newspaper job and asked if I could take his measurements. I told him it was for a bowtie and vest combo I was going to make him. I have no idea if he believed me, but he didn't ask any questions. And I did end up making him a bowtie for his birthday, to match a shirt I bought to match the sweater.
Bowtie-making is seriously quick and easy work.
Bowtie pattern: http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/david
Bowtie tying instructions: http://josephhall.org/nqb2/media/bow_tie.jpg
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