Free Knitting Pattern: Squishy, Sentimental Scarf

This is not the sort of knitting project that you really need a pattern for, but Make It Handmade’s post about her Squishy Sentimental Scarf is a great reminder that all the little odds and ends left over from favorite projects could — and should! — be combined into a project that can keep us or a loved one warm and serve as a reminder of all the great knitting we’ve done in the past.

I love horizontal scarves like this that use a whole bunch of little odd balls — my Horizontal Scarf is like this but you don’t even have to weave in the ends because you knit with each strand for just one row and leave tails at each end for fringe. I love that scarf so much (and I gave it away, so I really need to knit another one!) that I started on a shawl worked in the same manner, but I didn’t get that far, and I stole the needle out of it for some reason, but that sure would be a fun project for the winter!

What do you do with your sentimental yarn scarps? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo via Make it Handmade.]

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette.

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up).

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley.

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design.

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like.

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going.

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]

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