Brava From KnitPicks

I’ve just about got my Brava project finished (save for blocking and sewing on buttons). This yarn is soooo soft, and I love it for the snuggly soft baby sweater. Machine washable and dryable too, and a DREAM to knit with. Perfect for a baby. Used the sport weight, in the Seashell colorway for the main part of the body. And camel, dove and cream for the patterns. This is a definite must-have yarn for baby projects. Knit Picks Brava Sport HERE, this yarn was so easy to knit with that I didn’t have to concentrate on anything other than increases, decreases and pattern stitches. No splitting, no creeping off the needles, very easy on these arthritic farmer hands!

If you look close enough, yes, I realize there is a mistake in the yoke. But it’s hard to see and I’m not going to fix it, sorry. It’s for a baby (who was born Thursday), a good friend of my daughter. The sweater is knit in a size 12 months though, so I have some time to get it blocked, and with Miss Anna’s coloring, the seashell color will look gorgeous on her 🙂

Since there was a bit of a color chart I aquired a new Magnetic Chart Keeper, also from Knit Picks.

The pattern was a FREE pattern, from Garn Studio HERE, I may yet knit the hat and booties, not sure yet.

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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.

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