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FREEBIE Cabled Hat

Cabled Hat

This free pattern for a cabled hat demonstrated that beautiful, stylish, on-trend garments don’t have to be expensive. This hat is made with one skein of worsted weight yarn – economical Cascade 220 (or sub Cascade 220 Superwash, superwash blend Berroco Vintage, superwash merino Malabrigo Rios, or buttery soft Malabrigo Worsted).

A big furry pompom kind of makes the hat ‘pop’ – we sell both synthetic and real pompoms in our bricks & mortar store and in our online store (I like the Raccoon the best for this style, they’re light and airy).

Yarn Options

Cascade 220: 1 skein

Cascade 220 Superwash: 1 skein

Berroco Vintage: 1 skein

Malabrigo Rios: 1 skein

Malabrigo Worsted: 1 skein

Materials

  • FREE Pattern
  • Fur Pompom (synthetic or real)
  • 3.5mm/US4-16″ circular needles
  • 4.5mm/US7-16″ circular needles
  • 4.5mm/US7 double pointed needles
  • cable needle
  • stitch marker
  • tapestry needle

Tweedy Fog

Tweedy Fog

Tweedy Fog is a classic raglan top down open front cardigan with a generous rib collar and twisted stitch elbow patches. If your elbows wear out way faster than the rest of the sweater, it also has elbow patches! The simple and classic silhouette is perfect for heathered yarns but will look equally great in solids.

The cardi is totally seamless and works up quickly due to its simplicity. It calls for cheap & cheerful Cascade 220 Heathers or Cascade 220 Solids – YAY! We also have some Cascade 220 On SALE – double YAY!

And, if you are careful about weaving in ends, and use a reversible entrelac pick up method when working on the collar, this cardigan becomes reversible. The cardi in the picture has the purled side as the right side, but you are free to wear it on the knit side.

Materials

Size

  • Finished bust: 33 (35, 38, 40, 42, 45) inches
  • To fit bust: 31 (33, 36, 38, 40, 43) inches
  • 2 inches of positive ease at the bust

 

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Channel Cardigan

Channel Cardigan

I love the classic styling of this cardie: the cables, the shape, it’s just so cozy and timeless. If you’re looking for a little challenge in your fall project definitely take a look at this one. It’s the kind of sweater I endlessly wear around the house with my yoga pants. If  I could find it in a store I would buy it, but since I can’t I guess I’ll just have to make one. The only question is which colour?  … a knitter’s life is an embarrassment of riches.

Size

Circumference at bust (buttoned):  35¾ (38¾, 42, 45¼, 48½, 51¾)”

Materials

 

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FREEBIE Garter Squish Blanket

Garter Squish Blanket

Need something super straightforward for the trip to the cottage? The Garter Squish Blanket couldn’t be simpler – knit. It’s worked with two strands of yarn held together; a base colour is used throughout, and a new contrast colour is introduced for each stripe. It knits up fast on 10mm/US15 needles. I think Cascade 220 Solids and Cascade 220 Heathers  are a perfect choice for this project – it’s affordable, comes in a broad spectrum of colours, and feels nice (it’s a peruvian wool, so it isn’t as soft as a merino, but it’s the next best thing. The project benefits from a yarn that is not machine washable because the yarns need to ‘stick’ together and blend).

Size

  • Length: 66”/168cm
  • Width: 49″/122cm

Yarn

Cascade 220 Solids or Cascade 220 Heathers 

Other Materials

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FYI Friday: Knit-speriments with Colour Pooling


Welcome to adventures in colour-pooling! My interest was revived after I attended a talk in January by Robin Hunter at the Toronto Knitter’s Guild on negotiating pooling with hand painted yarns. I’ve been curious about ‘planned pooling’ since I read the book Artful Color Mindful Knits, and I’ve been interest in controlling pooling has been in the back of my mind ever since. The premise is you can measure the colour repeat in a hand painted yarn and predict how it will pool, based on your tension and the number of stitches.

But this story really starts with the the run up to the holidays, when a client, Di, was busy making gifts for her grandchildren. She chose a skein of Cascade 220 Superwash Paints (colour 9914), I gave her a generic hat pattern (Ribbed Watchman’s Hat), and  she was off. And when she came back, she had a hat with the coolest striped pooling! The patterns had hit the ‘magic number’, and it looked amazing! 


First Try
So we tried it in the store. The awesome thing about Cascade 220 Superwash Paints is that the yarn is meticulously and consistently dyed, so all the skeins and colourways will behave in a similar way. We cast on with 4mm/US6 needles and colour 9919, working in the round, and things got interesting …..


The colours kind of stacked, rather than striped. The needle must have been too small, but the result was even cooler than expected! 

Second Try
So we gave it another shot, this time on 4.5mm/US7 needles and colour 9997 (still working in the round, and we worked a couple extra inches to make the hat longer – the first one turned out a bit small). Stripes Ahoy! What a difference half a millimetre makes!  I thought I would like the lower contrast colourway (9997), but I think I actually prefer our first knit-speriment.

NEW Colours of Cascade 220 Superwash & Sport

We’ve stocked a pile of more colours in Cascade 220 Superwash and Cascade 220 Superwash Sport! These are colours that are not presently available in Canada, including shades like the ones used in the Gradient Pullover (above) from this spring’s Interweave Knit.Wear (we’ve also received more copies of that too).   
Cascade 220 Superwash Sport 
  • we now carry the full complement of colours (see images below for the new colours)
  • sport weight/3.5-4mm needles
  • machine wash cool, lay flat to dry
  • 100% merino wool
  • 50g/125m
  • $6.97 ea
Cascade 220 Superwash Sport  
Cascade 220 Superwash 
  • the selection is exhaustive so we couldn’t get everything, but we’ve brought in more heathered colours, quattros/’tweed’, and gaps in the palette (see images below)
  • worsted weight/4.5mm needles
  • machine wash cool, lay flat to dry
  • 100% peruvian wool
  • 100g/200m
  • $11.97 ea
Cascade 220 Superwash

Cascade 220 Superwash Paints 
  • we now have baby friendly shades not otherwise available in Canada (see images below)
  • worsted/4.5mm needles
  • hand painted
  • machine wash cool, lay flat to dry
  • 100% peruvian wool
  • 100g/200m
  • $14.97 ea 
Cascade 220 Superwash Paints


All of the Cascade Superwash yarns are machine washable, soft, 100% wool, and great for babies, kids, men, blankets, hats, scarves, mitts, sweaters, toys, and people who’ll never ever wash a garment by hand. 

60 Quick Knits in Cascade 220

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60 Quick Knits: 20 Hats*20 Scarves*20 Mittens in Cascade 220 

60 Quick Knits in Cascade 220: 20 Hats, 20 Scarves, 20 Mittens  
This is a very nifty and useful little book to have in your library. All of the patterns are knit in the same yarn, which happens to be nice, affordable, and extremely easy to substitute. There are patterns for Women, Kids and Men at a variety of skill levels and styles. Also, it isn’t marketed as such, but this book is actually great as a resource for stash busting!

My favourites include: