Isn’t this pretty? The tutorial calls for pre-bought felted squares, but I’m sure you can think of a better source, no?
This is a traditional Danish design and is sooooo easy!
Click HERE for the tutorial on Weaving Danish Heart Baskets.
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Learn a Flower Bobble Technique to Knit a Fun Shawl
Generally I like knitting patterns where I feel like you can use whatever yarn you have (because my stash is big enough and I want to use it, thanks) and make a successful project. This is one of those times when a special yarn makes the process that much easier.
The Floral Bouquet Shawl from Xandy Peters uses a specific extended color pooling yarn from Feisty Fibers, which allows you to place the bobble flowers with increasing frequency as you knit the project.
It starts with a solid color yarn, then the two color yarn is added in, and you make a bobble whenever you encounter the color pops. This would be hard to replicate with other yarn that doesn’t have the extended color pooling built in.
The background of the shawl is ribbed, making the project reversible.
The shawl uses fingering/sock yarn and comes out to be an asymmetrical triangle that’s 54 inches/137 cm long and 36 inches/ 90 cm deep and 60 inches/150 cm across the top edge.
Xandy says the pattern is for intermediate to advanced knitters. Knowing how to work traditional bobbles would probably help, but there’s a great video tutorial for how to work the floral bobbles so you can practice on other yarn or even incorporate the bobbles into other projects.
The bobbles are five-petaled flowers but they also kind of look like starfish to me, which could be fun on a child’s cardigan or other pattern. They’d also be fun on the leg of a sock or around the brim of a hat for extra whimsy.
The pattern includes photo and video tutorials, and written and charted instructions. It also includes tips on what to look for if you choose to use different yarn for the project, and instructions on how to dye your own yarn to use in the project.
If you want to give it a try, you can find the pattern on Ravelry.
[Photo: Xandy Peters]
Being Swedish, I always made that type of paper heart baskets for Christmas as a kid. One fab thing about them is that it’s pretty easy to make your own design depending on how you cut the slits. You can make many narrow slits, just make one cut in the middle, mix narrow and wide slits or even make wavy cuts.
Some make more modern patterns as you can see here: http://www.hemmetsjournal.se/Hemmets-Journal-jul/Julpyssel/Julhjartan-pa-nytt-satt/ Click the red text under the photos for templates (it’s a pdf file). That site also have a lot of other traditional and modern christmas crafts under the tab pyssel.