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Knitting Pattern – Rainbow Window Decoration

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This Rainbow Knitting pattern is available for free via Deramores, all you have to do is select the “Digital Pattern” option in the drop-down menu to grab the pattern for free.

Rainbows have become a symbol of hope during isolation and people are placing them on their porches and in their windows to show solidarity during the COVID Crisis.

Sarah Murray from The Cornish Knitting Company has designed this Rainbow Window Decoration using the yarn Deramores Studio DK. Keep busy with this fantastic pattern that is fun for everyone to make and will keep your window looking special! This yarn is a wonderfully soft acrylic yarn which has been developed with anti-pilling technology.

Level: Beginner

Size: 24cm wide x 14cm high

 

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  1. shame on you! The rainbow knitting pattern should be free to help people at this horrible time.

  3. Thank you for making it free to download Sarah. I see the needles requirement state 4.5mm knitting needles but in the pattern instructions it states 4mm needles. Is it the 4mm we use please?

  4. It’s not my pattern so I’m not sure but in the supplies for the kit it says 4.5. I don’t think it would make a huge difference.

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Why Not Knit a Tiny Llama?

I’ve been enjoying knit amigurumi animal patterns lately (see also: this adorable knit pigeon) and of course being a knitter I love llamas.

So when I saw this little llama pattern I knew I had to share it.

The appropriately named Llama patter from Annie Ahn calls for fingering weight yarn, and it uses two colors for the body and three for the little blanket. The pompom can be made to match or in another color. All of these parts take tiny amounts of yarn so you can use whatever scraps you have left over from socks or other projects and change colors whenever you need to.

It might also be fun to use some mohair or other fuzzy or textured yarn on this one to give your llama a different look. In all the project uses between 100 and 150 yards, or 91-137 m, of yarn and the llama comes out about 10 cm/4 inches tall.

The body of the llama is worked in one piece, so this project is suited to intermediate knitters or those who have comfort working in the round and with all those little pieces.

This one is made to be small so you can carry it around with you (it would be super cute on a keychain or as a zipper pull) but I think it would be a lot of fun to knit this in larger yarn, too, to make a bigger llama. You could even make a whole family in different sizes just by using different weights of yarn and corresponding needles.

The details are so cute, from the shaggy hair to its little accessories, but you could make it plain or change it up by knitting a tiny scarf or even working a little fair isle pattern on the legs or body. So many fun possibilities!

The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and Korean.

[Photo: Annie Ahn]

 

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