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60 Quick Knits With Cascade 220

April 21, 2010 by Terrye

One of the freshest books to come down the pike in a long time. Cascade 220 has long been one of my favorite yarns. It’s so soft, warm and comes in a superwash variety! This entire book is devoted to quick knits using Cascade 220.

Explore different colors, textures, stitch patterns and styles with these hat, scarf and mitten patterns. Need a hat for your sledding party tomorrow? Knit it up today. Want an extra pair of mittens for your son? Does he like Octopus? I’m not kidding, there are instructions for Octopus Mittens in this book.  Bunny mittens too. And a scarf hat. Not usually one for hats, I prefer a hood, but the cabled scarf hat is just the ticket. Up here it’s all about staying warm, and Cascade 220 is the yarn for the job.

And the best part of this book is that all of the projects really are quick to knit. You’ll definitely find a project or two in this book that you’ll just have to have. The book is available from Sixth&Spring Books

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Comments

  1. Helena West says

    April 27, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Love this book. Knitting is one of my hobbies.I’m sure this would really help me

  2. Barbara Young says

    June 26, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Would love this book. I have been wanting to make a pair of mittens for a while. This looks like it is just what I need.

Have you read?

Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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