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Calorimetry and Sifa and a FREE Pattern!

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So, I got myself a couple of skeins of Sifa Silver yarn. Very nice yarn. Soft yarn. Easy to work with yarn. Yummy yarn! Composition is 95% cotton (chain plied, so it stretches) and 5% silver. Yup! Real silver!

Silver is a natural healing element and these old arthritic fingers sure appreciated that.

This yarn is from Knit Outta The Box, and while currently it only comes in the natural color there is talk of earthy colors coming down the pike.

Now, obviously the Calorimetry Headband isn’t done, still needs to have ends tied in, blocked and buttons, but it’s so comfortable. I can’t wait to have it finished.

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 cotton yarn

Comments

  1. Looks like the same free one in Knitty’s Winter 2006 & you don’t have to give any personal info.

  2. HI

    please note Sifa Silver has been rebranded by the spinner to Figgi Yarns, knitouttathebox has no legal association with this yarn anymore and is not supplied by us any more, the distributors for Figgi Yarns are xena knits

    thank you

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Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]