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Knit Yourself a Puzzle Cube

February 26, 2025 by Sarah White

I say this a lot, but I love it when people knit things that surprise me, make me think or make me laugh. This one kind of does all three! It’s not a new pattern but I think it’s worth taking a look at, and it would be a super fun stash buster to keep on your desk as a fidget.

It’s also a great conversation starter because this is the knit version of the Soma Cube (which also happens to be the name of the pattern), which was invented by Piet Hein in 1936 while he was listening to a lecture about quantum mechanics.

There are seven different pieces of various shapes that can be fitted together to make a cube. But the really cool thing is that there’s not just one way to put it together, there are in fact 240 different solutions! So you or your kids or anyone who happens by can play with it over and over and come up with different ways to make the cube.

It looks like this project is made with worsted weight yarn, though the pattern page on Ravelry actually doesn’t say. It looks like people have used fingering weight, DK and worsted weight yarns, which would make cubes of different sizes but the pieces should fit together all the same. There are even a couple of crochet versions!

I was looking at different projects and one person commented that it’s worthwhile to knit the pieces in the order they are given in the pattern because some of the later pieces are “strange and bewildering.” Which sounds like something I absolutely want to sign up for!

Despite the weird shapes there’s not a whole lot of finishing on each piece. The designers used polystyrene beads to fill their blocks, but you could also cut pieces of foam to fit.

The pattern is available on Ravelry.

[Photo: Pat Ashforth & Steve Plummer]

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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