FO - hat & scarf w/ i cord trim

#1

a girl i know asked for me to come up with a creative use of 2 colors she chose for a hat and scarf set. ugh. creative? a scarf? a hat? im cabled out lately… but, im slightly addicted to icords, at least for now. soooo… here is the end result… overly creative? not really, but i do like the color combo & the cool thing is that the light teal changes colors a different angles to match the icord trim.

lion brand homespun is the fibre of choice. :slight_smile:



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#2

Very nice! Definitely diggin’ the color combination! :happydance:

#3

Great job!! I :heart: the colors! :inlove:

#4

whats icord trim?
how did you knit the second color on the outside of the scarf onto the first color?

#5

Oooh, very pretty!

#6

SOOO pretty! :cheering:

[size=2](Those disembodied heads really freak me out, though!! :shock: )[/size]

#7

:cheering:

#8

Lovely! I love those two colors together! :thumbsup:

#9

:thumbsup: Great job and loves the colors!!!

#10

Very nice!

#11

i knit an icord, then i attached it by sewing with a quilting needle & the contrast color. i have actually knit an icord onto a bonnet once, but i truely forget how and from what i do remember, i had a lot of tearing out. hehe…

#12

Very cool colors! Love the combo with the stripe/i-cord on the sides of the scarf.

#13

thank you ladies!

#14

[color=blue][size=7]Way COOL![/size]

You hand stitched the cord ALL the way around the scarf???
Sounds like a whole lot of work. [size=1]whew[/size] [/color]

#15

haha!! actually it only took about 10 min to stitch it around. making the cord took longer! :thumbsup:

#16

[color=red]That would translate to “dog minutes” for me. [/color]:roflhard:

#17

[color=red]That would translate to “dog minutes” for me. [/color]:roflhard:[/quote]

it sounds more intimidating than it actually is! i promise!

#18

Gorgeous colors!! What a great set! :thumbsup:

#19

Looks great, and I admire you for making it all the way through that scarf with Homespun!!! I have a really hard time knitting with that.

Oh, and for those asking about i-cord trim. I’ve done a ton of it, and there’s a way where you can pick up stitches & knit it directly onto a garment. It’s really not difficult at all. Let me see if I can write them out as I do them.

If you already have live stitches

  1. Cast 3 stitches on to the right-hand needle
  2. Slip those three stitches – as if to knit – onto the left-hand needle
  3. Knit the first two stitches
  4. Knit the 3rd together with the first live stitch through the back loop
  5. repeat steps 2 through 4 until you come back to where you started
  6. Bind off i-cord, sew ends together.

If you don’t have live stitches, you can either pick them all up before you begin, or you can pick them up as you go.

Elizabeth Zimmerman uses this a lot, and her instructions can be found in Knitting Around. I believe she has tips on making the i-cord fit better around corners, plus she may have some advice on how to seam the ends together so they look nice. I haven’t had to worry about this yet since I’ve been using these mostly on felted bags.

#20

That is a really pretty color combo. :slight_smile: Love it.