Would you like to deck the halls, your bookshelves, or other surfaces of home and work with knitted Nerdfighter cheer? This DFTBA mini-banner brings together our community’s mantra and fiber craft, creating a rather adorable display of Nerdfighteria’s essential initialism. The banner of mini-pennants can be knitted in two colors or ten, can be done once or multiple times. Just like you choose how you’re going to be awesome, you can choose how your colors for this DFTBA mini banner.

Materials:

• Fingering or sock weight yarn in two or more colors, with approximately 40 yards for each main color pennant and 1 yard for each contrast color for a single pennant (so, approximately 200 yards of main color yarn and 5 yards of contrast color in order to make five letter pennants)
• Additional fingering or sock weight yarn for the I-cord that strings mini-pennants into a banner (est. yardage 200)
• 3.50 mm (US size 4) double pointed needles (DPNs) for both the pennants and the I-cord
• Two stitch markers, to mark the center purl stitch that will form a fold line for each pennant

Knitting Notes:
• As described here, each pennant is approximately four inches across the top and three inches deep. A sequence of five pennants knitted in fingering weight yarn makes a banner that is approximately 20” long.
• These mini-pennants allow many fiber, color, and sizing options. Mini-skeins and left-over yarns can be used to knit the pennants, given the small amounts needed.
• Gauge is not important in this project, within certain limitations. First, using yarns of similar weight and properties will help you create pennants of the same size, in order to achieve a symmetrical banner. If you change either your needle size or your yarn weight, your pennants will change size, and you may need more or less yarn.