So happy with my latest knitting project! This is the wonderful Ombrellone by Melinda Vermeer.
I started this out with just the light purple and darker purple color striping, but I thought it looked too much like 7-year-olds girl's bedroom. So, I changed the pattern a bit using some of my stash: I frogged what I had and began again with some KnitPicks Swish DK in my new favorite color, Sugar Plum. Then changing the pattern, I started my stripes on Row 24 with some Naturally Caron Country in gray. I continued with these stripes to Row 37. On Row 38, I switched from the light purple to dark purple stripes (Ella Rae Classics Heather) and continued with the gray. Then on Row 56, I switched the gray to KnitPicks Swish DK in Lost Lake Heather (green) with the purple. LOVE this green!
Sadly, I didn't have enough of the Lost Lake to do the full border, so I had to end with Row 83. I think the border is still wide enough and it looks fine. I did lose a little length though by not making the border as wide as the pattern stated.
To bind off, I used a semi-stretchy stitch on the next RS row. To do this:
Knit the 1st stitch. Then,
1. Slip next st to the right side needle knitwise.
2. With these two stitches on the right needle, knit them together tbl.
3. Knit the next st.
4. Bind off next st as normail.
Continue working through steps 1-4 until you have 1 st left. Then cut your yarn and pull it through the last st. Ta-da!
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