One Inspiration Deserves Another

A knitting-related page I follow on Facebook recently shared a link to the Big Herringbone Cowl from Purl Soho.

It’s an oldish pattern, but it is lovely and squishy and bulky and I was definitely drawn to it in my scrolling.

Turns out the pattern was inspired by a poncho project in a book, Last Minute Knitted Gifts. Whitney, who designed the cowl, said she was inspired by the drape and texture of the poncho and was excited to try the bold stitch pattern on her cowl.

I kind of feel the same way. I’ve been wanting to knit myself a big cardigan all fall and winter long, and I think I might have just found my stitch pattern. This will be a lot more fun than Stockinette, I reckon.

Have you ever been inspired by someone else’s design to make your own pattern? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Purl Soho.]

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As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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Maryanne says
January 16, 2018 at 1:58 pm
I get inspiration from other people’s patterns all the time. Recently, I used an interesting stitch from a cowl to border a hat of my own design. In the colors I used, I thought it looked like little flowers.
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/wil4ds/starburst-cowl

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