I had the idea to knit a yarn cozy for some of the larger size yarn cakes that are 140-200 grams of 3 weight and 4 weight yarn. What I came up with is what I’m calling My Big Cake Basket. It’s knit with 3 weight yarn and US 6 needles. This is knit in the round and has a basket weave body. Where you see sl2wyib you will slip 2 stitches purlwise with yarn in back. I haven’t tried this yet but I’m guessing you could also knit this in 4 weight yarn and US 8 needles and get maybe a little bit bigger yarn cozy that will still be able to hold this big yarn cakes. For this My Big Cake Basket I used some Premier Yarns Colorfusion DK in the color Grape Vine.
This is a rough copy of what I wrote up for how I constructed My Big Cake Basket. I haven’t decided yet if I will put this into a downloadable pdf pattern. That I will decide in the future but for now here is the pattern to knit My Big Cake Basket.
cast on 8 stitches
base section:
round 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-12: knit all
round 3, 6, 9: (k1, yo) repeat () to end of round
round 13-16: (k2, p2) repeat to end of round
body section:
round 1-2: (sl2wyib, k2) repeat () to end of round
round 3: knit all
round 4-6: (p2, k2)
round 7-8: (k2, sl2wyib) repeat () to end of round
round 9: knit all
round 10-12: (k2, p2)
repeat body rounds 1-12 3 more times
finish section:
round 1-2: (k2, p2) repeat () to end of round
bind off
