Flowery and Leafy Summer Scarf. Perfect accessory! The leaves and flowers are knitted, and the scarf itself is a simple lace pattern.
Go here to download this free pattern, from knitculture.com!
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by Terrye 6 Comments
Flowery and Leafy Summer Scarf. Perfect accessory! The leaves and flowers are knitted, and the scarf itself is a simple lace pattern.
Go here to download this free pattern, from knitculture.com!
Winter is coming for us in the Northern Hemisphere. That’s just a fact. But we don’t have to give up on bright colors and fun, whimsical, even summery feeling knitting projects while we’re waiting for it to warm up again.
We can keep cozy in knit hats festooned with a flock of flamingos if we want.
Stephanie Lotven is here to help us out with that project, thanks to her Flock of Flamingos hat knitting pattern.
This one uses four colors to make the flamingos themselves as well as a watery background at the bottom of the hat, a lighter sky and a colorwork pattern at the top that evokes sunshine. There’s an optional chart for adding duplicate stitch beaks and eyes to the flamingos (and a video tutorial is included in case you’ve never done that before) but they’re really cute either way.
The pattern uses fingering weight yarn, and you might just have some leftover sock yarn in your stash that would work for some of these colors. If you want to use the exact colors used in the sample, you can grab a kit from Emma’s Yarn. There are actually a few different color combos there if you want to change it up a bit. You could also change up the background colors so that the birds are standing in sand with a blue sky background. You could probably even work with the same background color throughout if you like, but the change is fun, too.
You should look through the projects on Ravelry to see different color options that people have used to get more ideas, especially if you want to use your stash.
I’m not saying knitting this hat will totally chase away your winter blues, but it’s sure to bring a smile to your face as you knit it and when you wear it.
You can find the pattern on Ravelry.
[Photo: Stephanie Lotven]
Joanne Carpenter says
The link for knitculture isn’ working.
Terrye says
It worked fine for me, you need Adobe Reader (free from adobe.com) to open it though.
Ashleigh Schroeder says
I can’t seem to get find the pattern for the scarf on Knitculture. I am really looking forward to making this scarf for my mom for Christmas. Any help in locating the pattern would be greatly appreciated.
Sarah White says
You should be able to find it here: http://www.knitculture.com/our-blog/flowery-leafy-summer-scarf-free-pattern/
Hannah says
Does anyone have access to this pattern? The link isn’t working.
Sarah White says
The website doesn’t exist anymore but I found it on the Internet Archive and the link to the pdf is still working right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20120125031433/http://www.knitculture.com/our-blog/flowery-leafy-summer-scarf-free-pattern/