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Check out the Yarnspirations Look Book

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check out the yarnspirations lookbook for fallThe people at Yarnspirations clearly got the memo that big knits are in this year, because their look book is full of them.

The book includes 13 knitting projects and 5 crochet projects, and virtually all of them are big in scale.

For instance there’s the Ease Pullover with coordinating scarf, a big, boxy pullover worked in moss stitch. The Strand-tastic Cowl is a bulky knit worked with a roving style yarn in a stranded pattern where the floats are on the outside of the work. And the Simply Garter Cowl is exactly that; worked in huge yarn it will be finished in no time.

There are some projects with a slightly smaller scale like the Hi Lo Pullover, a pretty, heavily cabled pullover with a hi-low hem. I also like the Folksy Yoke, a roomy cardigan with fair isle flowers and other designs.

You can check out the lookbook on issuu.

See anything you like? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Yarnspirations.]

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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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