This knit is designed to make the most of highly variegated yarns while being a fun, gratifying and super quick project that makes a great gift or project to take a break from complex knitting.
I love those beautiful pops of colour and using slipped stitches that get crossed highlights these little bands of colours. This adds to the fun of the knit… which colour will end up being the next highlight?
These little cables make that wild yarn sing!
It’s also a fantastic introduction to cables making it a great confidence builder for beginner knitters, especially as all the cables are demonstrated in video tutorials (with or without a cable needle)!
I’ve included video tutorials on all the cables including how to work them without a cable needle.
Inspiration behind the name
After fighting cancer for 4 years and it being the most consuming exercise ever, I wanted to start looking at what was next. I read that it was important to have goals to look forward to so that I’m focused on living but what I never dreamed of was being able to design a pattern others could knit.
And so I felt my first pattern of this next chapter in my life was the right name to epitomize a change, something new and emerging. Like a book of my life, this next chapter yet to be read will be an interesting one, one I look forward to with hope and joy!
We all face a new chapter at some point in our life. Perhaps even just at a new year, or a new season. What will your next chapter be?
Notes on the Cables Used
On viewing the pattern it may seem that the cables are wild and complicated. They’re actually probably the easiest cables I’ve ever worked with and are very intuitive once you start working them.
As one of my test knitters (Linnyloo7) said, “The pattern is easy to memorize and the symbols for the cables make perfect sense once you’re working them (they sounded pretty wild to me before I started though)”
DIMENSIONS
To fit wrist size: 6”-9.5” (15cm-24cm)
Cuff width: 1.5” (4cm)
Finished cuff length:
7” (8”, 8.5”, 9.5”, 10”, 11”, 11.5”);
18cm (20.5, 22, 24, 25, 28.5, 30cm)
YARN
Worsted weight / 10 ply
6”-11.5” (15-30cm)
15-30 yd/ 14-28 m (7-14 g)
Sample knit in:
Malabrigo Rios (Worsted weight/10 ply, 100% Merino, 210 yds/192 m per 100 g), Diana
NEEDLES
US 6/4mm circular needles, or size required to obtain gauge
NOTIONS
Cable Needle
(these cables are so easy to do without a cable needle. I’ve also included links to tutorials in the Abbreviations section below)
1” (2.5cm) Button
Needle for weaving in ends
GAUGE
8 sts x 7 rows = 1”/2.5cm in pattern st, blocked
(although I’d recommend just starting this pattern as it’s so small and if the gauge is way off, you can just rip it out and start over)
This pattern has been test knitted.