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Giveaway: Dress-to-Impress Knitted Scarves

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dress to impress knitted scarves giveawayThis week’s giveaway is for the girly girls, the ladies who love feminine fashion and a bit of a challenge or an interesting technique in their knitting projects.

Dress-to-Impress Knitted Scarves by Pam Powers offers 24 knit scarves, cowls, ascots, kerchiefs and other fun shapes, all with a creative touch. There are often multiple yarns, colors, stitch patterns and techniques in the same project, and she loves to pattern block a project (where one section in the center is worked in one style/yarn and the ends are worked in a different way).

The projects often have a layered look because of this, which gives you lots of options for how to wear them. These projects are unique and not like anything you’d be able to buy anywhere, but they’re also not for beginners. Of course if you love a design you’ll be more inspired to learn the techniques necessary to make it your own (and some of the special skills required are described in the book, too).

If you’d like to win a copy of this fun book, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Monday, January 19. If you want, tell me what sort of style you like in neckwear the most: a simple rectangular scarf, a cowl, a small shawl wrapped around your neck? I love them all on different days, but I’ve been partial to a super long, warm scarf lately because it has been so cold!

Thanks for visiting and commenting, and good luck!

Comments

  4. Long scarf to wrap around and around! Would love this book for ideas as I knit and sell scarves and am always looking for inspiration.

  7. I love all scarves….depending on the yarn there are so many possible different looks…thanks for the chance to win!

  8. Nothing beats a long cashmere scarf… I was lucky to find one and it was relatively inexpensive!!

  10. I really enjoy wearing as well as making scarfs and shawls and would really would love too have this book!

  12. I’m like you – depends on the day. Way back when I knit a scarf that was 18″ wide and 6 feet long! THAT was one warm and wonderful scarf! Wonder if that old boyfriend still has it?

  13. I love all kinds of scarves dependant on weather and what I am wearing. I like to be flexible, more variety means more outfits.

  14. I really love long soft scarves. Small cowls are nice too – but I do not like them too bulky. thanks!

  16. I’ve been using a triangular Shawlette the most this year. It’s knit in fingering weight yarn so it’s light but warm and I can wear it with or without my coat.
    Best part is that it has all of the colors I wear .

  23. I think this pattern book is really nice. I used to make very long scarves, 90 to 130 inches long. I loved wrapping them around and around my neck. Then I started to make lovely cowls that fit snugly around my neck, but let me play around with lots of patterns. I learned that I love knitting cables and used many sock patterns without having to make socks!

  28. I like a long rectangular scarf for outside in the winter. I like the idea of a small shawl on my shoulders, but I haven’t made one yet.

  34. looks like a wonderful book! I love making, wearing and giving away scarves, shawls cowls and wraps of any style!!

  36. I like the very wide and long scarves. I have made cowls but not for myself. I should because I do like them.

  37. I love scarves. I made a bobble stitch scarf I made that is six feet long, perfect for keeping drafts out.

  40. Cowls and short scarfs/ascots are perfect for me. Not only are they fast, but they’re warm without being bulky under a coat.

  43. I like all kinds of scarves and cowls but right now, the temperature has been so bitterly cold that I am liking the long scarves that I can wrap around my neck and face. I would love to win this book. I looked at the preview photos and the scarves are soooo magnificient. Love every one of them. Thank you for the chance to win.

  44. Oh swoon! I would love to win this particular book. My go-to scarf is a triangle usually. But I also like the keyhole kind – no adjusting required through the day, they stay put!

  47. Knit scarves, cowls, neckerchiefs, shawls and other fun shapes are not only beautiful, comfortable things, and very fashionable accessories and have to be in the wardrobe every fashioners! I love to knit colorful hats, shawls and scarfs. My goal to knit and crochet trendy accessories to draw attention to myself!

Have you read?

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]