Faux Chenille Yarn

In May this year I bought some yarn I had not used before.  Little Purler Faux Chenille yarn. It felt incredibly soft.  My plan was to crochet baby blankets with it but I soon changed my mind!!  I tried but found it too difficult to see where to insert the hook.  I was nearly going to take the 7 balls that I had not used back to the store however I thought I would see how it knitted and I am so glad I did it is great to knit with :)

The first item I made was a baby blanket.

My starting row had 140 stitches.  This was knitted in simple garter stitch. Alternating every two rows with the Faux chenille yarn & Patons Big Baby 4 ply. I did blocks of 40 rows then changing the colour of the 4 ply yarn as I did not have enough of any one colour for the whole project.  I added a crocheted border in linen stitch using each of the Patons Big Baby yarns I had used in the blanket.

My second project was a scarf when a family member asked for some one to make her a scarf in really soft yarn. Starting row was 30 stitches and worked in simple garter stitch using up the whole of one ball of yarn.

My third project was two baby jackets for a Facebook friend's twins. I was starting to like this yarn so I bought some more balls of Little Purler Faux Chenille in plain white.  Like the baby blanket I worked it in simple garter stitch alternating every two rows with the Faux chenille yarn & Patons Big Baby 4 ply. 

I used this pattern with a few changes of my own. http://www.lionbrand.com/knitting-pattern-glamour-babys-first-cardigan-1.html 

Fourth project was two girls scarves.   I wanted to use their favourite colours red & blue but I was unable to buy any faux chenille yarn in those colours.  So I made them in red & white & blue & white.  The challenge doing this was I wanted each side to be the same.  This was achieved by using double pointed knitting needles & knitting one row of each the white & red or white & blue but only turning on one row & sliding the stitches along on the next row. Starting row of 28 stitches knitted in simple garter stitch.

Fifth project was a scarf for the girls mum.  Similar to the previous adult scarf I made but using the chenille yarn and a 5 ply mauve acrylic yarn in the same method as the girls scarves changing yarn each row.

My sixth project start yesterday a scarf for my granddaughter who wanted a scarf made in yellow & purple.  So I purchase some Sean Sheep Baby Chenille Yarn - Lavender Mint from Big W yesterday & have started making the scarf.  This different brand yarn is thicker but still lovely and soft. Starting row 22 & working in simple garter stitch.