Simple Cable Knit Pillows

Simple Cable Knit Pillows

6mm 60" Cable needle

2 balls 100g chunky yarn. I used Deramores Vintage Chunky

2 stitch markers

C6F =  Put 3 sts on cable needle, hold to the front. Knit 3 stitches from your left needle, put the stitches from the cable needle back on your left needle and knit. This makes the cable cross.

Cover for 16x16 (roughly) square pillow cover

Cast on 108 sts 

Join in the round (careful not to twist the stitches)

Row 1: Knit 5,( P1, C6F, P1, K10) x2.  P1, C6F, P1 K5. Place a stitch marker to mark front.  

Knit 5,( P1, C6F, P1, K10) x2.  P1, C6F, P1 K5. Place a stitch marker to mark Back.

Row 2-7: Knit the knit sts and purl the purl sts.

Repeat until you almost run out of yarn, Bind off, put pillow in and sew up ends. 

RAF Roundel Blanket

Inspiration for this is the RAF roundels from the WW2 era. I used 2 versions. 

Roundel #1. Red, white, blue, Yellow:

Type A.1 as seen below on Vera, the Lancaster in Hamilton Ontario's Warplane Heritage Museum (she still fly's.. sometimes over my house :) ) Used on camouflaged surfaces  of fighters, Spitfires, Hurricanes etc. Bombers -Lancaster's, wellingtons etc. 

The other is type A as seen on the spitfire below. Used by fighters during WW2, usually under the wings. 

Its not easy getting a shot from under the wings!

The Pattern:

Please note I am not the best pattern writer and I hope you already know how to crochet, otherwise please look up tutorials on youtube. 

5mm Hook

Materials: 100 gram balls of Acrylic. I used:

Super Soft Aran (Sirdar)

4x Dark Denim Blue

2x Denim Blue

1x Poppy Red

Uptown Worsted (Universal Yarns)

2x White

2x Sage Green

2x Dijon Yellow

Colour Sequences:

Roundel #1 Make 24

Row 1: Poppy Red

Row 2: White

Row 3: Denim Blue

Row 4: Dijon Yellow

Row 5: Sage Green (the colour of a spitfire to incorporate a fighter plane in the design and to add the last round, not actually a colour of the roundel its self )

Roundel #2 Make 37

Row 1 and 2: Poppy Red

Row 3: White

Row 4 and 5: Dark Denim Blue

With Row 1 yarn:

Chain 4, join a ring

Ch 3 (counts as first DC). DC 11 into circle and join.

With Row 2 Yarn:

Ch 3. (counts as first dc). DC 2 more in the space.

*ch 2, 3 dc in next st* repeat 11 times

ch 2 and join to first cluster. 12 clusters

With Row 3 Yarn:

Attach yarn in a chain space, chain 4 (counts as first tr). 2 tr in the same chain space.

*ch 3, tr 3* in each chain space from row 2. Join to first cluster. 12 Clusters

Row 4 Yarn:

Attach yarn to a chain space. Ch 3 (counts as first dc). 2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc in same chain space. 

*3 dc in next space than dc 3, ch 2, dc 3 in next space* 5 times, 3 dc in last space and slip stitch to first cluster. You now have 5 distinct sides 

Row 5:

Attach yarn in a corner space. Ch 3. *1 dc in next 9 sts, in corner : 1 dc ch 1 1 dc* around. When you get back to the first corner, 1 dc and ch 1. Slip Stitch to first dc. 

Sew together in a circular pattern as pictured. I did a boarder in dark denim just doing DC in each sts all the way around (in the corners I did 3 dc to make it smooth)

Enjoy!

Abi's Bunting

My beautiful niece Abi gave me a ball of red yard for Christmas, I turned it into bunting for her room

The ball of yarn!  It was DK acrylic

I made 2 sizes of hearts:

Small I used a 4mm hook and yarn held single

Large I used a 6.5 mm hook and yarn held double

Leave a long tail. Chain 4

In the first chain (First chain you made) work:

3 tc, 3dc, ch1, 1 tc, ch1, 3dc, 3tc, ch3. Join to center hole with slip stitch. Leave a long tail

Add Beads:

I use a piece of beading wire folded in half to put on beads. I had to dig through my stash to find beads with large enough holes. I found a few 2/0 and 33/0 seed beads for the small and 33/0 and some ceramic beads for the large. 

Catch the yarn in the fold of the wire:

Thread on beads to the ends:

Pull through. If its super tight I use some pliers to help 

Push the beads down and overhand knot, don't make it too tight. 

I tied another overhand knot about 2cm above the first one and trimmed the yarn. That created the loop to thread onto the base chain. 

Base Chain:

With 6.5mm hook and yarn help double. Chain until required length. Mine was about 2 meters. Overhand knot the ends and trim ends. 

In total I made 6 small and 5 large hearts.