Make a Scarf to Document Your Team’s Season

October 3, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Stitch a Scarf with Dreamy Waves

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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