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Domino Knitting and a Free Scarf Pattern

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Join the domino craze with Knit to Be Square! Vivian Høxbro shows you how to combine modular squares into blocks of varying sizes that become the base for a variety of eye-catching two- and three-dimensional projects. Combine these geometric patterns with felting and you get gorgeous results!

Knit to Be Square includes:

Easy-to-Knit patterns for hats, bags, scarves, pillows, slippers, capelets, afghans, and more.
Quick-to-knit patterns made of small squares that take relatively few stitches to finish.
Ideal patterns for using up your stash.
Easy washing machine felting tips for wool.
Plus! An impressively sized afghan shows you how mitered squares can be used to get a patchwork effect similar to traditional quilts
And more!
But be prepared—this is an addictive form of knitting! One square leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another…

Read about it here: http://www.interweave.com/knit/books/KnitToBeSquare/about.asp

View the slideshow here: http://www.viv.dk/Books/KnitToBeSquare/KnitToBeSquare.htm

Free Scarf Pattern here: http://www.viv.dk/Patterns/Patterns.htm

And join the KAL, here: http://www.knittingdaily.com/forums/t/1081.aspx

 And after you’ve done all that…. leave me a comment and this book just might become yours!

Comments

  3. I will be at bed rest for the winter and I am going to knit up a domino storm. Every pattern in Knit to Be Square! Vivian Høxbro is on my list. Even my husband i gettin onbord and writing the patterns up row by row for all repeats, a great help with the count and rechecking. Has any one found any real domino knitting needles I would like to know.

    Thanks

    Anya

Have you read?

Knit a Leopard Print Shawl and Learn about Yarn Substitution

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations. 

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind. 

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca. 

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl. 

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions. 

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic). 

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only. 

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]