Make a Scarf to Document Your Team’s Season

I love the idea behind the Winning Season cowl pattern from Brian & Terri Haynes of AT Haynes House Yarns. It’s like a temperature project, but for your team’s season.

The version Terri is modeling was designed based on the 2022 season of the Baltimore Ravens. It’s a pretty easy knit worked in the round that you can work on while you watch the game (if you’re behind on the season or working from a previous season). Each straight color section is 4 inches/10 cm, because that’s how much she was able to knit while watching the game. You can make yours longer or shorter as you like if you’re not knitting during the game, or if your sport has a lot more games than professional football does.

It uses five colors of sport weight yarn: one to mark the beginning of the season and a bye week, one for home wins, one for home losses, and one each for away wins and losses.

There’s probably a way you could work the score into the design, maybe by doing a round of purl stitches at each end of that color block to indicate your team’s score and the opposing team’s score? If that’s something you want to document I’m sure there’s a way it coul dbe worked in.

This is so cute to do in your team colors, and you’ll always have something appropriate to wear to the game and a fun conversation piece at watch parties or on the sidelines.

This would be so cute to do if you have a kid in sports and they can keep a representation of their seasons long after they’ve stopped playing, or as a gift for their coach.

You can download the pattern from Ravelry, or buy it directly from the AT Haynes House Yarns website. Maybe you’ll find some great yarn to knit your version while you are there.

[Photo: Brian & Terri Haynes]

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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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