ready to enjoy the first sunrays in the garden! :-)

about the pattern:
kaffe fassett wrote in ‘knitting with the colorguys’:
“here is an easy solution to the many complex color changes that i used in those original designs SEVERAL DECADES AGO.”
so the recommended yarn of rowan ISN’T the original kaffee used, just a good ‘replica’.

the pattern isn’t that difficult. but…sorry… the colour-layout- diagram in the book isn’t worth to look at…i guess the one creating the pattern, never ‘re-knitted’ the blanket with his/hers recommended shades and amount of skeins of rowans colourscape chunky.


so first:

wind up the yarn in partitions of shades… but don’t cut them off!!! (i used rubberbands)

…after the first 4 pineapple-halfs you should manage the colour-combinations on your own while looking at the fotos, because the layout-diagram doesn’t refer to kaffes plaid as shown in the book
(on the couch-foto the blanket lays upside down!!!).

my way:

needles: 8 mm (7 mm in the book)

gauge: 14 x 20 = 10 cm2 (14/18 i.t.b.)

half a pineapple = 1.560 stitches = ca. 50 m

i knitted two rows pineapples more than told in the book, to get nearly the requried length…
i ordered following skeins and colours therefor:

5 skeins camouflage (437)

3 skeins candy pink (434)
4 skeins ghost (435)
2 skeins cloud (443)

2 skeins misty (440)

2 skeins bracken (441)

2 skeins frosty (433)

2 skeins storm (439 /i took instead: misty 440)

1 skein spring (442)

1 skein carnival (430)
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24 skeins in total of colourscape chunky!!!

remaining yarn you’ll need for the edging!
in the end you’ll have some (perhaps dull-shaded) yarn left.

i’ve choosen 2 skeins of misty extra for the edging (with all the stitches knitting in rounds!), because it shows the natural shades of my slightly weathered deckchair in the garden. :-)
the finished blanket weights accurate 2.300 grams.

i bought the rowan-yarn at knitblissyarns…another way to get it perhaps cheaper:
http://www.texere-yarns.co.uk/texereshop/Olympia_Chunky_b... other names of the shades…but it will end in the same mill, i guess.