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Howdy Ombré!

July 15, 2015 3 Comments

Get your hands on Howdy Ombré, the flexible bandana pattern from Hands Occupied.

A new pattern joins the Hands Occupied Pattern Shop today! An ombré bandana whose flexibility of wear, coupled with its beautiful color palette, make this a piece I cannot stop wearing. Despite its ability to be right at home in a casual or formal setting, I felt that calling this a bandana and naming it Howdy Ombré was in order. Why not? It’s a knitting pattern, so of course a cheeky name makes sense! You can get the pattern download in my Ravelry, Craftsy, and Kollabora shops.

Get your hands on Howdy Ombré, the flexible bandana pattern from Hands Occupied.

Howdy Ombré is a versatile, bias knit bandana featuring easy colorwork. It travels well in every sense. As a work-in-progress, it fits easily in a travel bag, and as a finished garment, it makes a handy accessory that works for casual layering as well as formal wear.

Get your hands on Howdy Ombré, the flexible bandana pattern from Hands Occupied.

There are so many ways to wear the Howdy Ombré! You can wear it cowl style as a neckwarmer or front-laying triangle bandana, and you can wear it wrap style in a variety of ways too. I call this one the Jane Austen. (Also, hi, library tattoo! She doesn’t often make an appearance on this blog.)

Get your hands on Howdy Ombré, the flexible bandana pattern from Hands Occupied.

In a palette inspired by marsala, the Pantone color of the year for 2015, this bandana is knit in doubled-up lace weight yarn. The mohair and silk blend yarn result in a lush finished piece with a beautiful fiber halo. You can get your hands on the Shibui Silk Cloud yarn at many a local yarn shop, but if online is more your style, A Good Yarn carries it here.

Get your hands on Howdy Ombré, the flexible bandana pattern from Hands Occupied.

Yarn support for this design was provided by Shibui.

Filed Under: Knitting, Knitting & Crochet, Pattern Shop Tagged With: howdy ombre, independent knitting design, indie design, knitting pattern, mohair

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. Julie

    July 16, 2015 at 8:35 am

    so, so beautiful!! I love how soft and squishy it looks in the mohair.

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  2. Judy

    October 28, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    Beautiful but am terribly allergic to mohair and angora. Any suggestions for yarn substitutions? Thanks in advance

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    • Heidi

      October 28, 2015 at 7:21 pm

      Sure! The great thing about Shibui yarn is that they carry the same colors of yarn in a range of different fiber types. I’d recommend going with another Shibui yarn, but with sheep fibers instead of rabbit. :) I think doing the Howdy Ombre in their Pebble or Cima, but they don’t have Pebble or Cima in Raspberry, so you’d need to get creative with your color choices with those yarns). You could go with their Baby Alpaca yarn if you want to stick with the colors I did the design in. Best! -Heidi

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Hi! I’m Heidi, an author, yarn craft designer and content creator specializing in knitting, crochet, latch hook & macrame. My work unapologetically features primary colors and vintage-meets-modern style. My first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is now available!

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