These past couple of week I’ve been working on the Red Heart
Pattern So Cozy Warmer, by designer Cathy Payson. The pattern is labeled skill
level “easy” which is perfect for me since I still consider myself a beginner
knitter. It is also worked in the round making it my first knitting project to
be worked in the round. If you can knit, purl and work in the round, you won’t
have any trouble with this fun pattern. The colorway I am using is called
Wizard. It is mostly dark green with hints of blues, reds and browns. The
colors are all very complimentary.
The pattern calls for size 8 circular needles. I needed to
use a size 9 circulars to get close to the gauge of 14 stitches = 4 inches. I know,
I know, we hate to check “gauge”, but do it anyway you won’t be sorry.
This pattern can be downloaded from the Red Heart Website,
but I found my copy at the local Michael’s Craft Store as a free tear sheet. On
the bottom of the tear sheet it says this project should take about 7 hours to
complete. Ha!! So far I have about twice that amount of time invested and I’m
about half way done.
This is a picture of my work in progress. When I have the wrap finished, I'll see if I can get my very pretty niece Amanda to model it for me so I can show you the finished product.
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THE YARN: I love the new Boutique line of Red Heart yarns. The
yarn I’m using in this project is Boutique Magical. It is 93% Acrylic, 6% Wool, and 1% Metallic
Polyester. As you knit or crochet with this yarn, it will self-stripe, and is
quite soft to the touch when worked into fabric and very light weight.
The yarn is advertised as four yarns in one; that
description is apt. As you work with the yarn you will experience metallic
thread, which turns into a bouclé type
of yarn, which then gives way to multicolored fuzzy yarn, and then to a smooth
yarn. It certainly is not boring. If you
don’t like knots in your yarn, you may not like this yarn as each yarn
transition is knotted together.
Each skein has a generous 190 yards, which should be
sufficient to make a nice scarf if you would like to experiment with just one skein
before launching into a larger garment using this yarn.
I hope you enjoy Red Heart’s Boutique Magical yarn.
