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Free Pattern: Adorable Pine Trees with Cork Bases

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cabled pine trees simply notableIf you’re still looking for a few cute ways to spruce up your house for the holidays, I’ve got you covered. Keep checking back this week for quick gift ideas, holiday decor, a fun giveaway or two and probably some tidbits from the fiber festival I went to over the weekend!

For starters there’s this pattern for super cute cabled pine trees placed on cork bases from Simply Notable. It’s a really easy pattern (two patterns, actually) that are great if you’re new to cables and want to get your feet wet quickly. Whatever your skill level these will work up fast and you’ll soon have a whole little forest to put on your table, mantel or bookshelf. It’s a great stash buster, too, if you’re like me and have a ton of green yarn!

[Photo via Simply Notable.]

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  5. THe link to the cables trees goes straight to a guitar lesson. I’d love to see a pattern for the cabled knitted trees if anyone has gotten to one! Thanks!

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Learn a Flower Bobble Technique to Knit a Fun Shawl

Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier. 

The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project. 

It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.

The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible. 

The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge. 

Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects. 

The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy. 

The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project. 

If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Xandy Peters]