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So, I have 2 skeins of this awesomeness coming to my door, and I need some help deciding what to do with it.

It is a fair trade/fair labor product from Turkey. 95% cotton and 5% real silver, the name is Sifa (which means “healing” in Turkish). There will be approximately 150 yds and looks to be a DK/Sport weight yarn. I’m so excited to get this on the needles. But what to do with it from there?

I just can’t wait, going to go over to Ravelry and Drops (my two favorite “go to” sites for inspiration) now for ideas…….

Let me know what you think I should knit………

And in the meantime, check out this awesome new yarn, HERE, at Knit Outta The Box!

PS, I’ve decided to knit the Calorimetry Headband, over on Knitty! Need a headband to go under my bike helmet, so look for a review soon! cotton yarn

Comments

  1. This looks interesting! Anti-bacterial silver…… you could make dishcloths or very short socks or slippers. I love handknit cotton dishcloths -much better to use than papertowels!

  2. I agree that dishcloths would be nice since the yarn is antibacterial, but my first thought was that you should make some jewelry or hair accessories. I think that would be especially cute since you’re working with precious metals.

  4. Hmm. I’d make biking gloves with padded palms. Sort of gloves with half-length, open ended fingers, with a second layer on the palm. The reason is that like all exercise equipment biking gloves get sweaty and stinky. Anti-bac would keep them pleasant longer. -k.

  5. with warm weather knocking on our door, how about a versatile, yet simple, tank top that could be dressed up or down?

Have you read?

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]