A Perfect Combination!

Sugar Bunny yarn from Knit Picks is a merino/angora worsted blend that is just heaven on earth.

Put this with an old pattern I scrounged up (did the whole Google thing and couldn’t find it, sorry) and you have the most incredibly soft, snuggly, warm, cuddly, fuzzy wrist warmers you can imagine.

Oh, before I forget, the pattern is called Girl’s Best Friend (not the one on Ravelry – see I really did look for it) by D2 Designz.

Back to this yarn. Sugar Bunny is 80% merino and 20% angora, worsted weight, and 136 yards, almost just perfect for one pair of mitts. (I actually broke into the second skein but if I had made the cuffs 1.5″ rather than 2 I would have had enough).

So, seriously,Sugar Bunny rocks, but you better hurry if you want to try it, it’s a limited edition line.

Next Pattern:

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.

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