Lykky

This jolly cushion is adorned with bobbles knitted using scraps of yarn in various colours. A nice addition, for example, to a child’s room! “Lykky” is a Finnish dialect word for stitch. **SIZE:** One size FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Height: 15.75"/40 cm Width: 15.75"/40 cm **MATERIALS** **Yarn:** Approx. the following amounts of DK-weight yarn: MC: 176 g/401 yd/368 m. CC: Approx. 90 g/205 yd/188 m of DK-weight scrap yarns in various colours (small differences in weight won’t affect the result). Each bobble uses about 1 yd/85 cm of yarn. The sample cushion used 10 different CCs. The sample was knitted in Madelinetosh Tosh DK (MC) in colourway Paper, a hand-dyed superwash merino yarn in DK-weight. **Needles:** US 6/4 mm needles. **Notions:** One 16 x 16"/40 x 40 cm cushion insert. **GAUGE** 20 sts x 27 rows to 4"/10 cm in St St, after blocking. **CONSTRUCTION** This cushion is knitted flat in Stock­inette Stitch with 5-stitch-wide bobbles worked in scrap yarn. For each bobble, five rows of Stockinette Stitch are worked in CC, and on the final row, the bobble is attached to the previous MC row. Two identical pieces are knitted for the cushion, which are then sewn together.