This is a very late post today! Been a busy day…
This is a beanie/scarf thingy I knitted for my daughter Cassie several years ago. Knitted from a variety of different yarns, to my own design…
I used four balls of yarn, three solid colours (1=pink, 2=blue, 3= lavender) plus one ball of chunky, bobbly one ply yarn.
Tension; 12 stitches to 10cm
To start: make the pom-pom first, also wind off enough yarn of each of the colours for the tassels on the ends of the scarves at the start of the project. This will ensure you have enough yarn for these bits.
Tassels are approximately 30cm in length, I use a small paperback book to wind the yarn around, and you will need approximately 20cm worth for a good thickness. I used lots of colour 3, lavender in my tassels, which is why there turned out to be not much lavender in the beanie itself! *blush* Colours and numbers of rows in each colour are up to the individual according to taste, the following is the combination I used here.
Beanie: the beanie was knitted in the round, from the crown down to the rim.
Cast on 7 stitches.
Row 1; K2 in each stitch (14 stitches)
K 1 row
K1, inc 1 in next stitch, repeat until end (21 st)
K1 row
K 1, inc 1 in next stitch, repeat until end (31 st)
K 1 row
K2, inc 1 in next stitch, repeat until end (41 st)
K 1 row
K3, inc 1 in next stitch, repeat until end (51 st)
K 1 row
K4, inc 1 in next stitch, repeat until end(61 st)
K 5 row
(change to bobbly yarn) K 3 rows
(change to colour 2) K 7 rows
(change to bobbly yarn) K 6 rows
(change to colour 1) K 4 rows
(change to bobbly yarn) cast of very loosely in bobbly yarn, until there are 24 stitches left, divide into two sets of 12 stitches and continue knitting on each set of 12 stitches separately.
Continue in stocking stitch, alternating yarns as follows:
(colour 2) 10 rows stocking stitch
(bobbly yarn) 4 rows stocking stitch
(colour 2) 10 rows garter stitch
(bobbly yarn) 4 rows garter stitch
(colour 1) 24 rows garter stitch
(bobbly yarn) 4 rows garter stitch
(colour 2) 18 rows garter stitch
(bobbly yarn) 4 rows garter stitch
(colour 3) 30 rows garter stitch
(bobbly yarn) 8 rows garter stitch
(colour 2) 6 rows garter stitch
Cast off.
Loop tassels through the cast off stitches, and sew pom pom onto crown.
Done!
Of course, colours and the numbers of rows in each colour are up to the individual according to taste, this pattern is the combination I used for this particular beanie. Really though, colours can be used however you choose, basically just keep changing colours at whim and knitting away happily until you get the length you want, or all the yarns are used up completely; ta-dah! zero waste!
Walking along a wintery morning beach.
