Alegria Grande Pattern and Project Inspiration
Alegria Grande is a worsted-weight yarn perfect for bright, beautiful, and durable projects! This is a yarn that offers opportunity to play with color or to spotlight textured stitches. Enjoy this round up of patterns and projects in Manos del Uruguay Alegria Grande!
The Dovetail Sweater is a worsted-weight colorwork sweater featuring Alegria Grande Bocados! Bocados, Spanish for little bites, are 25g/49yd worsted-weight mini-skeins of Alegria Grande. With 10 colors in the Bocados palette, there are plenty of beautiful 5-color combinations to inspire! The colorwork section is written rather than charted, so it’s approachable for any level of colorwork knitter.
Here are a few additional color combinations to inspire you: (left to right and top to bottom):
- Cactus Flower, Magenta, Turmeric, Spirulina, Juanita
- Spirulina, Kohl, Tahiti, Magenta, Turmeric
- Juanita, Cactus Flower, Turmeric, Kohl, Spirulina
- Spirulina, Oceano, Turmeric, Cactus Flower, Juanita
AlexandraSteenson used Alegria Grande in the new colorway Ushuaia for her version of Isabell Kraemer’s Textured Jumper.
The Tinsmithswife used the Scraptastic Cowl by Ambah O’Brien to showcase an assortment of Alegria Grande Bocados! They note, “Using two of C1 and just one each of the other 4 colors. Yarn knits up so beautifully! Definitely thinking of a sweater!” The color palette here is C1-Spirulina, C2-Tahiti, C3-Cactus Flower, C4-Oceano, and C5-Magenta.
Winterstitches knit the Antler Pullover by Tin Can Knits for her little one using just 2 skeins of Alegria Grande in the Carmine colorway.
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