Janie Crow Oonagh Knitted Cushion Pattern

This A4 booklet guides you through every step of how to design and create this fabulous cushion cover. Its glossy pages are full of easy to follow instructions and photos so you can make your own beautiful creation. The pattern includes written and charted instructions in UK terminology.

Jane designed this cushion cover for a workshop trip to the west of Ireland. As the focus of the trip was the knitting heritage of the Aran Islands, that sit at the mouth of Galway Bay, she chose to use traditional cable stitch designs and textural patterns. To give the cover a more contemporary twist, and because she adores a bit of bling, she also added some beads using a slip-stitch method that enables the beads to create a cross pattern.

She used traditional cream yarns as the shade for the first cushion cover with gold and green beads to echo the national colours of Ireland, but had a feeling it would also look great in red with silver beads, so she set about creating a new version especially for the festive season. 

• 2 x (010) Natural Cream

or

• 2 x (556) Crimson Red
• 1 pack of Debbie Abrahams Beads
• 35cm Square cushion pad
• 20mm traditional leather shank-style buttons brown

• 3.75mm & 4.00mm needles
• Stitch markers
• Knitters sewing needle
• Cable needles
• Fine sewing needle and thread for threading beads