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Another Knitting Pattern to Try Mosaic Knitting

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Moasic knitting is having a moment. It’s such a fun and easy way to add a little colorwork to projects, but you never used to see much of it. Now I feel like it’s been popping up in lots of different places over the past year or so and I love it.

It’s not at all a difficult technique but if you want to start with a project that has just a little bit of mosaic, there are lots of great options (I shared one earlier this month, in fact.)

The Rogue River Cowl by Kay Hopkins is another fun option. This bandanna style cowl is worked flat as a bias knit triangle, with mosaic along one edge and stripes throughout the rest of the pattern. This is a great use for mini skeins, a mulitcolored yarn or stash busting little odd balls. You’re always working with just one color per row so it’s super easy.

When you’re done you sew a little seam at the back to turn it into a cowl. So cute!

The pattern is available on Ravelry for $7.

[Photo: Kay Hopkins.]

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Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

[Photo: Olive Knits.]

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