I’ve started my next Christmas knitting project! I wound the yarn into a cake yesterday morning when I got home from work and did a little test swatch. I had trouble sleeping at first because I was coming up with a pattern and I wanted to start it and see how it was going to look! I might publish this pattern when I’m done. It will most likely be free and on my blog. I’m using fingering weight super wash merino. It’s from Dicentra Designs and I purchased it at Tangled Purls here in Salem, OR. I’m using the citrus colorway and I have about 170 yards of this yarn. My initial thought was to make a scarf with ruffles and ribs so I could call it the ruffles and ribs scarf. I didn’t see a pattern on ravelry that had everything I wanted (which is typical for me). I wanted a reversible scarf that was narrow enough for colors in the yarn to be stripey more than pooled and I wanted it do have just a little bit of something without being too fancy. I ended up with no ribs but lots of garter stitch and I love how it looks with this yarn.
As for further stashdown cristmas knitting I’m planning on toys for the kids, hats for the dudes, and slippers for most of the chicks. I want to keep the pace of finishing something every week but it might take two weeks right now because I’m starting more things than I’m finishing. I have lots of stash diving and pattern browsing to do before I find the right combinations of things for gifts. I also have to work and keep up with school as well as move in a couple of weeks and I have a vacation planned as well… It’s going to be a busy fall!
For anyone who is curious, my pattern so far is:
CO 40
4 rows of garter stitch
K1, *YO, K2tog*, K1
Knit
K2, *YO, K2tog*
6 rows of garter stitch
K2tog across (20 stitches left)
Garter stitch forever until you are ready to do the ruffle on the other end
Increase to 40 stitches probably using the knit front and back increase but I’m not there yet so I might change my mind
6 rows of garter
K2, *YO, K2tog*
Knit
K1, *YO, K2tog*, K1
4 rows of garter
Bind off.
As for further stashdown cristmas knitting I’m planning on toys for the kids, hats for the dudes, and slippers for most of the chicks. I want to keep the pace of finishing something every week but it might take two weeks right now because I’m starting more things than I’m finishing. I have lots of stash diving and pattern browsing to do before I find the right combinations of things for gifts. I also have to work and keep up with school as well as move in a couple of weeks and I have a vacation planned as well… It’s going to be a busy fall!
For anyone who is curious, my pattern so far is:
CO 40
4 rows of garter stitch
K1, *YO, K2tog*, K1
Knit
K2, *YO, K2tog*
6 rows of garter stitch
K2tog across (20 stitches left)
Garter stitch forever until you are ready to do the ruffle on the other end
Increase to 40 stitches probably using the knit front and back increase but I’m not there yet so I might change my mind
6 rows of garter
K2, *YO, K2tog*
Knit
K1, *YO, K2tog*, K1
4 rows of garter
Bind off.
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