Persian Dreams Worsted
This is for you - all you who loved Persian Dreams, but didn't have time to knit it in fingering.
In some of the photos, Worsted is shown beside the original Persian Dreams so you can compare. Worsted is the whiter one :)
Believe it or not, this is not a difficult project for experts only. Persian Dreams is made up of a set of individually worked hexagons, each in the round from the middle out. The hardest part is starting the hexagon with a seamless circular cast on. The colorwork is always right-side-out, so much easier to follow the pattern than when working back and forth. Each hexagon is small and easy to carry around. Once you have some (or all, it is up to you) hexagons complete, you can begin grafting them together, or use whatever seam you prefer. More than one person has learned how to do stranded colorwork making the original Persian Dreams in fingering weight yarn. This one is a lot faster and easier to see what's going on.
Persian Dreams began with the idea of doing a massive, epic, colorwork blanket. Rather than doing long rows and being constrained to colors in stripes, I decided to (actually woke up one morning with the idea in my head, and shortly thereafter, decided it was a good one) do the colorwork in hexagons. Easy to make, and distributes the colors beautifully.
If you want your Persian Dreams Worsted to look more like the original, only use the first 6 hexagon patterns and rearrange them to match the photos. I added 2 new hexagon designs, and rearranged the hexagons somewhat. Don't fancy white and bright? For color scheme inspiration, have a look at the Persian Dreams projects on Ravelry. From the dark and mysterious colorways to the soft tonal ones, there is something for everyone, and every house. Flipping through them, I want to make a second, and third, and fourth blanket, just to play with different colors.
Some colors used in the sample are no longer available. We have made substitution suggestions in the Kit Builder below.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Sizes Included: 80" x 60"
Yarn Weight: Worsted
Yarn Line: Wool of the Andes Worsted
Yardage: 4510
Fiber Type: Wool
Needle Sizes: US 5/3.75mm 24" circular needle
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