Deramores Pin Stripe Cushion Knitting Pattern

Deramores Pin Stripe Cushion

What is Being Made

The Deramores Pin Stripe Cushion is a beginner-friendly knitted cushion cover measuring 40cm x 40cm. This project creates a decorative cushion with a distinctive striped design that coordinates with a standard 40cm x 40cm cushion pad. The cushion features a front panel and two overlapping back panels that create a practical envelope closure, making it easy to insert and remove the cushion pad.

Techniques Used

This pattern employs fundamental knitting techniques suitable for beginners. The primary construction method involves knitting flat pieces on straight needles, then assembling them through a simple making-up process. The key technique featured throughout is moss stitch, a textured stitch pattern that creates a subtle, bumpy fabric surface. The striping effect is achieved through strategic color changes, alternating between two yarn colors (Sky and Frost) at regular intervals to create horizontal pin stripes across the cushion cover.

The pattern uses a straightforward color-blocking approach where yarn is broken off and rejoined to introduce the contrasting color. This method is accessible to beginners as it requires only basic yarn management skills. The overlapping back panels are positioned with wrong sides together to create a neat, professional finish while allowing the striped pattern to align seamlessly.

Stitches Used

• Moss Stitch: The foundation stitch for this entire project. Moss stitch is created by alternating knit and purl stitches in a specific pattern (K1, P1 on right-side rows, with the pattern reversed on wrong-side rows). This creates a dense, textured fabric with a distinctive bumpy appearance that adds visual interest and tactile appeal to the cushion cover.
• Garter Stitch (implied): The single knit rows between moss stitch sections create smooth transition rows that subtly break up the texture.
• Cast On and Cast Off: Standard cast-on and cast-off techniques are used to begin and finish each piece.

Materials

This project requires Deramores Studio DK Yarn, a double knitting weight yarn. The yarn quantities needed are 2 x 100g balls of Sky (Yarn A) and 1 x 100g ball of Frost (Yarn B), providing sufficient yardage for the front panel and two back panels with their respective stripe repeats. 3.75mm knitting needles are required to achieve the specified tension of 19.5 stitches and 36 rows over a 10cm x 10cm swatch in moss stitch. Additionally, a 40cm x 40cm cushion pad is needed to complete the finished cushion.

Pattern Overview

The Deramores Pin Stripe Cushion pattern, designed by Sarah Murray, consists of three separate knitted pieces. The Front panel is worked by casting on 77 stitches and establishing moss stitch, then repeating a sequence of color blocks four times. Each color block consists of 15 rows in moss stitch using one yarn color, followed by a knit row and a color change. The Lower Back panel uses the same stitch count and initial setup but repeats the color-block sequence only twice. The Upper Back panel repeats the sequence once, creating pieces of different lengths that overlap when assembled. This overlapping back construction allows the cushion cover to function as an envelope closure, making it practical for inserting and removing the cushion pad while maintaining the visual continuity of the striped design.