If all the writing I’ve been doing over the past few months about using your yarn stash and odd balls hasn’t yet inspired you to take on a stash-busting project, maybe this set of patterns will do it.
I love Wool & Pine Designs because many of their designs are really thoughtful in the way they use stash to make something that doesn’t look like a scrap yarn project.
And so it is with the Voyage set. These coordinating patterns for a cardigan, hat and mittens feature bold bands of colorwork such that each section can be two different colors, or you can go through a rotation through the project if you have more of some colors that you want to use.
To take the patterns one at a time, the cardigan is worked from the bottom up, mostly in the round, using steeks for the center front and sleeves. The sleeves are worked seamlessly from the top down using short row shaping, and are shown in the same color as the edging of the sweater. It has 10 sizes, with chest measurements from 30 to 66 inches (76 to 168 cm) and is meant to be worn with no to 4 inches/10 cm positive ease.
The mittens and hat use the same kind of stitch patterns, and you’ll probably want to make sure you have enough yarn to make your mittens match. Or not, if that’s more your style. The mittens are sized for small, medium and large adults, while the hat comes in sizes from newborn through adult large (eight sizes in all). That’s plenty to go through all your leftover sock yarn, mini skeins, skeins that will never really become socks, and then some!
All of the patterns are available on Ravelry as follows: cardigan | mittens | hat. If you order all three at the same time you’ll get a 20 percent discount.
[Photo: Wool & Pine Designs]
