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Make a Scarf to Document Your Team’s Season

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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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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]