CABIN FEVER PJS HOW TO

This worsted weight yarn, launched in 1968, is one of the great, classic tweeds. My love of tweed yarn is as deep as the Mariana Trench, as wide as my backside after finishing that giant can of flavored popcorn, as high as me after that guy refinished the floor in the front hall. A rustic, worsted-weight, flecky, nuppy tweed. 1: Stripes.Ĭan these three ideas meet in one blanket? Can log cabin and sequence knitting and long strips exist in the same project? These are the big questions, people. And, Karen Templer points out, the long strips are an idea from the Station Wagon Blanket in Field Guide No. A long strip of squares knitted in a variety of sequences, with a variety of colors? That is my idea of fun. If I work the blanket in long strips, the blanket starts to become easier to assemble. Long strips are a sequence knitter’s best friend. The blanket no longer needs to be made in squares with nine patches. (I think-I don’t actually know this.)Įliminating miters opens up the construction possibilities. Idea 3. And then! I want to make this blanket without using mitered squares-not because I don’t adore this technique, but because sequence knitting in miters would be a tricky thing to pull off. I want to make the squares using sequences that I pull out of my head.

CABIN FEVER PJS HOW TO

Cecelia Campochiaro figured out how to make complex fabrics that can be created easily, once you get the hang of her clever techniques. Idea 2. I’m obsessed with the knit-purl textures that are central to Field Guide No. I’ve loved this idea-a blanket with a wonky color rhythm, with squares of varied sizes-ever since Kay showed me the quilt that inspired it. We have kits for this exact blanket, using BerROCo Ultra Alpaca, so beautiful. Idea 1. The basic design will riff on one of my favorite blanket patterns ever, Kay’s Ninepatch Blanket from Field Guide No. It will be one of a kind, drawing from ideas featured in not one, not two, but three of our MDK Field Guides. I haven’t made a blanket in a while (at least a month!), and log cabin blankets are the most sublime kind of blankets to make. We hope you’ll see this as a golden opportunity to knit the new year with a lot of fun. There’s a log cabin knitalong conversation well under way over in the Lounge. And she shares lots of pix and ideas in “Imagine if This Were Log-Cabinized.” “Log Cabin: Ideas and Considerations” is a great primer.

Karen has already written amazing posts about log cabin. Karen’s knitalongs are epic, delicious, and inspiring.įor those just tuning in, you can get the details over at Fringe Association, where Karen is cooking up a grand adventure for the new year. It is important to have things to anticipate as the new year approaches.īack in October, Karen Templer announced her next Fringe and Friends Knitalong, beginning on New Year’s Day.

Cabin fever pjs