Whit's Knits: Springtime Bandana
I've been making regular visits to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden this March to check on spring's progress. The month started slowly with the first spindly yellow wisps of witch hazel and gained momentum, finally delivering the bursting buds of the dogwoods. I made this Springtime Bandana to celebrate these early spring efforts. It reflects the very tip of a daffodil bulb pushing up out of the earth and the millions of tiny bright green dots twinkling off of every twig of every tree.
Alchemy's Haiku mohair and silk blend is an amazing yarn for capturing nature's beauty. Its rich hand dyed colors are reflected by the silk and softened by the mohair. To add to the complexity of color, I striped a soothing seagreen with a bright acid green. The result is a like a beautiful watercolor of spring's essence.
The idea for a bandana came from my fifteen month old son who has something of a drool habit. I feel that bibs outside of eating time are a little undignified (isn't the drool bad enough?), so, instead, Bear is never without one of his many bandanas. His are the traditional western kind, but they got me thinking that bandanas are a really underrated accessory and that a knit one would cut the bite of this early spring chill (and, who knows, maybe catch some drool every now and then).
For instructions on how to make your own, please visit our Springtime Bandana Project Journal. Thanks! - Whitney
March 28, 2010
Reader Comments (19)
(btw, love the wallpaper in the background too)
un abrazo,
SIONA
You can find the special directions at the top of the pattern at this link:
http://www.purlbee.com/springtime-bandana/
If it's easier, here is the note on the pattern copied and pasted:
Note on the Pattern
Each row in this pattern starts with the instructions to either "Turn" or "Slide" the work:
"Turning the work" means to do what you would normally do when knitting rows with a circular needle. That is to say, put the needle in your left hand into your right and the needle in your right hand into your left, and flip the work around so the opposite side is facing you.
"Sliding the work" means to keep the same side of the work facing you, and to push all the stitches to the right end of the circular needle. Without turning the work, start the new row as you normally would.
You will know that you're doing this right if the yarn you need to complete the next row is magically there waiting for you!
Genevieve