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Simply Soft Heather by Caron Yarn

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CaronYarn Company introduced the newest member of the Simply Soft family of yarns—Simply Soft Heather. A true marriage of soft lustrous fiber with soft, sophisticated colors makes Simply Soft Heather a truly special new yarn for fashion garments, throws, pillows, even bags and totes. We’ve designed Heathers to complement some of our most popular Simply Soft colors and—even better—the gauge and weight of this new collection is identical to Simply Soft, so you can use it in all your favorite patterns.

One free pattern using the new Heather yarn is this child’s Aran pullover that is rated an intermediate pattern. This yarn is 100% Acrylic, has 280 yards in 5oz skeins and comes 8 new colors.

Looking for knitting patterns for knitted Cardigans? Check out these knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

Looking for pullover and sweater patterns? Check these books out.

Comments

  1. I just discovered this yarn and love it, but can’t find out if it has a dye lot or not. The regular SS does not have one. Any info would be appreciated.

  2. I can’t open the free pattern. Is it archived anywhere?

    It’s a great looking sweater!

    Please let me know.

    Thanks!

    Barbara

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]