Welcome back to week 2 of the Easter Comfort Cushion KAL! I promised that this week would be a little more challenging and hopefully enjoyable. We will be completing the first half of the front panel.

I am not a fan of color working, so I often reach for self-striping or variegated yarns to do the work for me. Cloudspun did its job beautifully and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. My usual colorwork technique of using floats didn’t work with the flat panel construction and made the pillow look unnecessarily bulky. I did a lot of frogging for this project but both yarns were durable enough to withstand my abuse without pilling or looking overworked. Eventually, I switched to the intarsia technique and it turned out to be the right (and easier) option for this project.

Hopefully I go the hard part out of the way, and this goes a lot easier for you.

Notes:

Stockinette stitch is worked by alternating rows of knit and purl stitches. When using the intarsia technique, you will want to pull the new strand over the old one

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