Miro Knits

Sweaters, ponchos, vests, and anything else you'd wear! The first real garment I made was a vest, followed by a few sweaters and my poncho. Garments range in difficulty, I started with a simple stockinette stitch vest and progressed to a cabled fisherman's sweater. I have to date used only wool for my garments, as I am a wool sweater fiend, but eventually I will break off into some cottons and silks for lighter summer styles,

Esme is sporting a wool blend dress (or tunic as she continues to grow) as well as a wool poncho for the cool fall days!

The tunic and the poncho are available for custom ordering.

My poncho! The grey portions are single ply wool with nylon center and the cream center is the fur which was spun into wool to add strength.

A men's vest, simple v-neck pattern. I used Paton's Classic Wool in olive.

These are long underwear, for which I could find no pattern so I made it up as I went along. I started with a boxer short pattern... for women because they were more fitted as opposed to the loose legs for men... and then continued each leg, measuring periodically and calculating the decreases as I worked down. I used worsted weight for these and they were thick enough, but not too thick, to fit comfortably under pants.

A cable knit, fisherman's style sweater. I used Knitpicks Wool of the Andes bulky in navy. The pattern is from "Men In Knits". I had to do some recalculating because the pattern called for bulky yarn, but the Wool of the Andes bulky is a bit thinner.

This is a simple A-Line skirt I made for myself. The pattern is Mya from C2Knits. I used Cascade 220 charcoal wool. I did not fold the waist band and insert elastic to cut down on bulk, so I just wove some elastic thread throughout. It seemed to be sized a little large, I could've gone down a size or so. There are three variations to this pattern, one with lace rib (which I made... a close up of the rib is in my photo gallery), color work and basic rib hem.

A chunky wool blend sweater made from Wool Ease Chunky. It was the devil to sew together, but after more hours than it took to actually knit the pieces, I think it came out pretty nice! It was really soft and comfortable!

This tank/halter pattern has a really neat laced up back, but a fairly simple and plain front. I used the knitpicks worsted Shine yarn. The pattern called for a rayon yarn which was no longer made, so I substituted to what I hope will be soft and cool to wear!