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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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Comments

  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.

Have you read?

A Blanket Knitting Pattern Where Yarn Selection is Everything

Many times when I write these posts I will say something like “you can use any yarn you want” or “this would be a great stash-busting project.” That’s just how my mind works. And my stash, too, since I probably have sweater quantity of two or three yarns at most, but tons of singles and odd balls and leftovers.

Blankets are generally a really good way to use up those bits, but in this case, I think you’re going to want to plan it out a bit better.

Looking at photos of the Color Study Blanket from Purl Soho, it looks like it’s made with two yarns held together, and that block in the center is worked with one of each color from the adjoining sides to make a mixed up color.

But that’s not actually how it’s done. This is three separate colors (four, really, with the neutrals in the corners) chosen form a yarn with an expansive palette so they play off each other. The project calls for a worsted weight superwash wool, which is a great choice for a blanket that’s both warm and washable.

This pattern was originally designed by Laura Ferguson and was updated by Hiromi Glover. It is worked in one piece in garter stitch intarsia, which is a great way to learn the intarsia technique if you don’t already know it. It comes in crib or throw sizes.

Despite the introduction to this post, I am going to go ahead and say that, yes, of course you could do this blanket with scraps or odd balls or even just choose five colors that don’t blend together so easily. But I really do love the look of the color play, and I think it would be worth your time to find colors that play well together to get a similar effect.

This pattern is available for free from Purl Soho.

[Photo: Purl Soho]