Prym Living Instructions for Cushion

Snuggle cushion – knitting at lightning speed! Fancy a change in your own four walls? Then why not knit yourself some snuggly cushion variations. The new knitting mill MAXI lets you create your own designs in next to no time. Threading up, cranking, binding off – done! For a cushion cover measuring 35 cm x 22 cm, simply knit a tube. Depending on the running length, one ball of wool is often enough. Insert the cushion filling and sew up the sides by hand. Loomed wool flowers give the cushion a particular charm.

Enjoy! Your Prym team

Snuggle cushion

Material: 50 g new wool each in red, pink and purple, for size 4; 50 g fleece yarn in red, for size 4; knitting mill MAXI, article number 624 170; scissors, article number 611 511; wool needle, article number 124 119; flower loom, article number 624 156; cushion filling of suitable size or polyester filling (wadding) article number 968 210.

Degree of difficulty: easy Time required: 1 hour

Here’s how to do it:

1. First slide the mode switch of the knitting mill MAXI to the down position for “knitting a tube”. Turn the crank clockwise until the coloured hook is slightly to the right of the yarn guide. Knit the cushion with double yarn using new wool and fleece yarn in red to produce a tighter knit. Feed approx. 40 cm of the double yarn into the centre of the knitting mill MAXI.

2. Thread the yarn from right to left under the opened coloured hook and then pass it behind the next hook. Slowly turn the crank in clockwise direction until the third hook opens. Pull the ends of the yarn until taut and thread the yarn under the third hook, before passing it behind the fourth hook. Continue to turn the crank clockwise until the fifth hook opens. Proceed in this way until you are back to the coloured hook.

3. Thread the yarn under the coloured hook and under the next 5 hooks – do not skip any hooks. Now pass the yarn through the gap in the yarn guide until seated in the groove. From there, thread it into the first hook of the tension piece. Now keep taking approx. 3 m of yarn off the balls and continue turning the crank in clockwise direction. The cushion will grow as if by magic.

4. After approx. 10 minutes, you will near the end of your wool. Turn the crank until the coloured hook is slightly to the right of the yarn guide. Cut off the yarns leaving a length of approx. 1.5 m, remove them from the tension piece and the yarn guide, and thread them onto the plastic needle. To bind off the last row, slowly turn the crank anticlockwise. Now insert the needle from the back to the front through the stitch to the left of the yarn guide. Turn the crank to the next hook and continue the process until all the stitches are caught. Finally, turn the crank clockwise again until all the stitches drop off the hooks.

5. Sew up the yarn ends by hand. One side of the cushion cover is sewn together in a parallel line 3 cm from the edge. Insert the cushion filling or fill the cover with polyester filling (wadding). Now sew up the second side at a distance of 3 cm from the edge. The edges automatically roll outwards. Finally, use the flower loom to produce 3 flowers in purple, pink and red, and sew them onto the front of the cushion.

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General tips

1. Always take approx. 3 m of yarn off the ball to ensure that runs smoothly through the yarn guide.

2. Depending on the wool, the knitted piece will look rather loose. For a tighter knit, use double yarn. Always test the material first. Fleece yarn is ideal to carry along, as it has a low yarn diameter but adds volume due to the length of the tuft.

3. When knitting large, unicoloured panels, the yarns can simply be tied together. If the knot is a little bigger, lift it over the yarn guide to the front, tauten the yarn again and continue knitting.

4. When knitting a flat panel, make sure that the yarn is taut before starting a new row to produce a neat edge without ladders.

5. . If a stitch gets caught at the side in a hook over two or three rows, use the plastic needle to lift it over the hook. After binding off, ladders can be mended in the same way.

6. If you find binding off your knitted piece too tedious using the plastic needle, simply add another two or three rows. Then take the knitted piece out of the knitting mill MAXI, undo the rows, and loop up the stitches with a knitting needle. Finally bind off the stitches as if hand-knitted.

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