I loved this yarn when i pulled it out of the pot.
The brown was so creamy (and i definitely prefer milk chocolate over dark) and the pink was pretty and thankfully didn't look like the pink elephant in Mercy's crib.
I had originally dyed the 60" skein in these two colors at a 1:1 ratio. If I knit socks out of this same yarn, I would have had thin, relatively equally spaced stripes of pink & brown. While this appealed to me, I instead decided to use the yarn for a new scarf pattern.
My limited math-brain couldn't have foreseen exactly what would have been the outcome, but I had a hunch...
Yea! I love the way this yarn created this awesome zigzag pattern in my already zigging & zagging fabric!
I'm making this pattern available here on the blog. Special thanks to Shari for testing it for me! If you'd like to make this pattern using a TurtleDove Yarn, let me know with a quick email & I'll let you know what current colorways should give you a similar pattern effect. Of course, this pattern would work up nicely in any semi-solid or variegated yarn. Usually a rigidly vertical lace pattern (especially one as simple as this one) will not get lost in a variegated yarn. But I know it would look lovely in a semi-solid as well.
This particular colorway is sold out. But I'm dying up another batch of CuppyCake for the shop during the next couple of days.
This particular colorway is sold out. But I'm dying up another batch of CuppyCake for the shop during the next couple of days.
Cuppy Cake Scarf
Materials:
1 skein TurtleDove Pigeon Sock (or appx 400 yds of a fingering weight yarn)
US 5
darning needle
Cast on: 52 sts.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2 & all wrong side rows: K1, Purl across to last stitch, K1.
Rows 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, & 13: K1, *K2, ssk, K2tog, K4, (YO, K1)twice, repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.
Row 15: Knit
Rows 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 & 27: K1, *K3, YO, K1, YO, K4, SSK, K2tog; repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.
Row 29: Knit
Repeat these 30 rows (row 30 is a purl row) until scarf measures 60" or desired length.
Bind off all sts loosely.
Weave in all ends.
Block, or don't for a fuller look.
Materials:
1 skein TurtleDove Pigeon Sock (or appx 400 yds of a fingering weight yarn)
US 5
darning needle
Cast on: 52 sts.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2 & all wrong side rows: K1, Purl across to last stitch, K1.
Rows 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, & 13: K1, *K2, ssk, K2tog, K4, (YO, K1)twice, repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.
Row 15: Knit
Rows 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 & 27: K1, *K3, YO, K1, YO, K4, SSK, K2tog; repeat from * to last 3 sts, K3.
Row 29: Knit
Repeat these 30 rows (row 30 is a purl row) until scarf measures 60" or desired length.
Bind off all sts loosely.
Weave in all ends.
Block, or don't for a fuller look.
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