A close-up of me wearing a green kerchief dotted with tiny pink flowers
Knit Picks has recently started doing Independent Designer Showcases, in which they gather up seasonal designs from independent designers and feature them during a certain time frame. I decided to submit a kerchief pattern to their spring-themed showcase, because I thought it would be more out of the ordinary than socks (which is what I originally wanted to submit…).
I’m pleased with what I came up with - a soft and practical kerchief that keeps hair out of your face and looks super cute! It’s also an extremely fast knit, which is good when the design involves things like straps, which are supremely boring to knit but required for the piece to wear properly.
Each color needs less than 50g of sport weight yarn - for the contrast color you seriously only need 5 yd/m, so you could easily pull from stash.
There are some fiddly bits, but I wouldn’t say this pattern is particularly difficult. There are some double increases/decreases (meaning you make 2 or decrease 2 when working an increase/decrease, rather than the usual 1), and the flowers are worked using stranded knitting. That said, the stranded knitting only occurs on right side rows, and said rows are not that long.
All in all, I think this pattern is pretty straightforward. It’s a little outside of my usual style, which was a fun challenge, but I think that’s also keeping me from being super passionate about it, as compared to a sock pattern. That’s okay, though - I still had fun designing it!
The same green kerchief laid out on a wood floor, with lime-green plants artfully arranged behind it