Square Ornament Recipe
by Lindsey Spoor
patterns > Alces Mystax Designs
> Square Ornament Recipe
by Cascadienne Flickr
Square Ornament Recipe
This pattern is
available for free.
This is a very loosey-goosey pattern - it’s more of a “choose your own adventure” recipe than a real pattern.
Pick a stranded colorwork chart from your library or a favorite pattern for a motif or border, or pick a stitch pattern to keep it super-simple. Knit in the round, whipstitch the edges together, add i-cord as a hanger, and voilà, an ornament!
- Use what you have on hand as far as needles and yarn. I used Cascade 220 because it works up to ornament size very quickly, but these would look equally great done in fingering-weight or sport-weight yarn. Just make sure you use the needle size you’d normally use for doing stranded colorwork with that weight of yarn - gauge isn’t critical, but colorwork that’s too tight or too loose will look less than wonderful.
- I do NOT provide charts in the pattern. Look through your library, your favorite patterns, stitch dictionaries, Fair-Isle motif dictionaries and choose whatever you’d like. (Sample shown uses a motif from a horizontal border in Alice Starmore’s Charts for Color Knitting.)
For more information, see:
http://alcesmystax.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/bacon-re...
About this yarn
by Cascade Yarns ®
Worsted
100% Wool
220 yards
/
100
grams
194892 projects
stashed 107119 times
rating
of
4.5
from
22159 votes
More from Lindsey Spoor
- First published: December 2011
- Page created: December 12, 2011
- Last updated: December 12, 2011 …
- visits in the last 24 hours
- visitors right now