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Let The Fur Fly…

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While searching for the perfect project to start my 3 pre-teen granddaughters on, Be Still And Knit boldly marched right up and saved me!

Isn’t this too fun? And talk about a stash buster, knit on size 13 needles, it would be a pretty quick knit also.

These three girls are all roughly the same age, the twins will be 11 in Dec. and the other will be 11 come April. And I have no doubt they’ll all come up with something totally different. One will be girly girl, one will most likely be sporty and the other will be a mish mash of favorite colors.

Can’t wait to get started!

What projects have you used to teach young’uns how to knit?

Comments

  1. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this idea! I got caught up in the fun fur phase when those silly little scarves were all the rage and find that I now have a ton of the stuff. This is an absolutely perfect way to use up the yarn in a very useful way (I hate to waste anything). I’ve been using the fun fur as trim for baby sweaters, etc. but this project will make a significant dent in my fuzzy stash of yarn! Thanks so much for featuring it!!
    Patricia

Have you read?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]