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Free Pattern or Scrappy Yarn Supplement with one of the following purchases from Marianated Yarns: Gradient Blanket Kit, Scrappy Blanket Kit, or 4 skeins of Phoebe DK to choose your own colours! Note: limited quantities of the Scrappy Yarn Supplement.

Phoebe DK (75% superwash merino/25% nylon) is a great easy care option for blankets. Combines perfectly with all your sock yarn scraps!

Knit this Reversible One Row Pattern! Combine all your sock yarn leftovers into the Scrappy Version or enjoy the colour flow of the Gradient Version.

The “IF” command is used exensively in computer programming to simplify complex tasks. This command specifies a condition; the program does one thing if the condition is met and something else otherwise.

The (Un)Conditional Love Blanket uses a conditional knit stitch (Cond-K) and a conditional purl stitch (Cond-P). When working these stitches, look at the next stitch on your needle, IF it’s the same colour as your working yarn you work it otherwise you slip it.

Why do this? To create a 3 colour, reversible scarf with a DIFFERENT colour pattern on each side using the SAME stitch pattern for every row!

This sounds strange! Does this make it easier? Can I do it? You follow conditional instructions every day. You stop at a red light and go on green. It feels automatic. These conditional stitches will feel automatic within a few rows. Watch how it’s done!

Try this technique with the Conditional Love Scarf -- a free pattern from Knitty Magazine!

Gradient Version
Yarn: 2 colours of 2 skeins each of DK weight yarn & DK weight gradient set with total yardage of at least 2 skeins of DK weight yarn
Yardage: 488 yds/ 446 m of each colour & gradient
Gauge: 22 sts and 48 rows in 4 in/ 10 cm worked in garter stitch
Finished Size: Width 37 in/ 94 cm; Length 32 in/ 81 cm
Recommended Yarn: Marianated Yarns Phoebe DK Gradient Kit Mango Blast, Hidden Peak & Fairy Tale Gradient

Scrappy Version
Yarns: 2 colours of 2 skeins each of DK weight yarn & fingering weight scrap totally twice the yardage of each other colour
Yardage: 488 yds/ 446 m of 2 DK weight colours & 1000 yds/ 914 m of fingerweight scrap
Gauge: 22 sts and 48 rows in 4 in/ 10 cm worked in garter stitch; working 1 row each of Colour A, Colour C and holding 2 yarns of Colour B together.
Finished Size: Width 37 in/ 94 cm; Length 32 in/ 81 cm
Recommended Yarns: Marianated Yarns Phoebe DK Scrappy Version in Morning Mist & Torrential Downpour; Practicality Fingering weight scraps in an assortment of colours.

Solid Colours Version
See Conditional Love Scarf for colour inspiration
Yarn: 3 colours of 2 skeins each of DK weight yarn
Yardage: 488 yds/ 446 m of each colour
Gauge: 22 sts and 48 rows in 4 in/ 10 cm worked in garter stitch
Finished Size: Width 37 in/ 94 cm; Length 32 in/ 81 cm
Recommended Yarn: Marianated Yarns Phoebe DK Tidal Pool, Sting & Hoth

Variegated Version
Yarn: 2 solid colours & 1 variegated colour; 2 skeins each of DK weight yarn
Yardage: 488 yds/ 446 m of each colour
Gauge: 22 sts and 48 rows in 4 in/ 10 cm worked in garter stitch
Finished Size: Width 37 in/ 94 cm; Length 32 in/ 81 cm
Recommended Yarn: Marianated Yarns Phoebe DK Mango Blast, Dragon of the North, Tide Pool Tantrum

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