It is a wonderful experience to combine skills (knitting, minimal sewing, simple embroidery), and here we use them to produce a quick and simple but impossibly unique summer top. It’s a solution to summer knits (aside from just knitting with cotton) and can be dressed up—with jewelry and a skirt—or dressed down—with a short-sleeved blouse or T-shirt and a pair of slim pants.

All you need do is find a piece of fabric (see note re: fabric choices), cut it to rectangles (that have no shaping!), then add some embroidery (from which to knit). The knitting gives shape to and finishes the piece with the addition of the yoke, short sleeves, and edgings.

The skills used are not difficult, and there are instructional photos to guide you through the process.

(I know the name of the pattern is a little silly, but this is how I have always thought of it--probably because you could ‘pop one out’ in a day of so once the weather turns and you need to wear knitting in the warmer weather.)

Sizes
XS–S (M–L, 1X–2X)
Models are shown in size M–L.
Finished width of Front / Back 23 (27, 31)” (58.5 68.5, 79cm)
Finished length of Front 20 (21, 22)” (51 53.5, 56cm)
Finished length of Back 24 (25, 26)” (61 63.5, 66cm)
You will shorten or lengthen when you cut your fabric.

Gauge
22 sts and 44 rows = 4” (10cm), over double garter ridge (knit 2 rows, purl 2 rows)

Materials
• An embroidery needle that will easily pass through your fabric with an eye large enough for your yarn.
• 2/3 (3/4, 1) yd (.6 .7, .8m) of 44” (112cm) linen or cotton canvas
• 220 (240, 270) yds (200 (220, 245]m) DK weight yarn in a coordinating colour
• US size 4 (3.5mm) circular needle, 16–20” (40–50cm) long or size needed to obtain gauge