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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

 

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.

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Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]