Knit a cozy balaclava with leftover mohair yarn.

This warm and lightweight balaclava is easy to knit with garter stitch. It’s a fantastic scrap yarn project that lets you use up any leftover bits of mohair yarn you have at home. The changing yarn gives the hat a lively texture.

Materials

• 5 skeins of Novita Tuuli mohair yarn or 125 g of any other mohair yarn. The balaclava is knitted with five strands of mohair yarn held together. You can use leftover yarn and add your favorite shades as you go, whenever a strand runs out. For the sample knit, we used mainly three strands of Novita Tuuli yarn in the shade ‘Säde’ and two strands in the shade ‘Heijastus’.
• 5.5 (US 9) mm and 6 mm (US 10) circular needles with a 40 cm cable.