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It’s always ourselves we find in the sea. Stormy or calm sea, waves stroking the beach…we wanted to capture it with our shawl design. How It’s Made Though the construction appears to be uncommon, it is clean and easy to knit. The shawl is made of 3 sections: Two rectangular scarves surround a center square, …
Like many people, I adore hand painted yarns, and like many others, I adore large, intricate lace shawls. But it always leaves me singing the blues that so often those two loves just do not work well together. How It’s Made This top-down semi-circle shawl, in four “sizes”, starts with bold petals that give way …
Straw into gold? We know this story! Or do we? This is not Rumplestiltskin, but Naomi Novik’s fantastic novel Spinning Silver. This is a story with a twist: the heroine has to transform silver, not straw, into gold. She does this not by spinning, but through her own cleverness and courage. Fiber artists need not …
We’re thrilled to have Ellen Sandin as a guest writer for this month’s issue! She’s the founder of EarthFaire.com and is truly an authority on adding beads to knitting or crochet! Let’s see what Ellen has to share with us… Beads are tremendous fun to add to knitting and crocheting. They add sparkle and glow …
Heliantheae is the third largest tribe in the sunflower family, with the name derived from the genus Helianthus, which is Greek for sunflower. Each “flower” of a sunflower is actually a disc made up of many flowers – tiny disc florets in the center and ray florets on the outside. While the majority of sunflowers …
This cowl uses the simple and whimsical cabled owl motif in different sizes to represent the “Owl Family.” Each owl in the family is unique, created using different cable stitches. It’s a great way for a beginning cable knitter to learn and practice those different cable stitches in a simple formation. It’s a neck warmer …
Ah, Bruschetta! Tomatoes, olive oil, bread and maybe even some mushrooms–the perfect meal on a hot summer day. A lightweight, bias knit wrap with just a hint of beads—the perfect accessory for a spring or summer day, especially if it is knit in the colors of my favorite summer meal. Drape this beautiful wrap around you …
A lacy, feminine cowl with just a few beads in a gorgeous yarn, perfect for spring and much easier to work than it looks! Subscribe and get access to ALL premium patterns! – OR – Yarn Space Cadet Celeste (100% superwash merino; 490 yds [448 m]/100g [3.5oz]): Plume, 1 skein Thanks to Space Cadet for …
This shawl is a combination of some of my favorite techniques: It starts by treating the slip knot as a chain stitch – this gives a really smooth beginning point. The main body is worked side-to-side, allowing the rows to be relatively short and giving a vertical stripe texture to the piece. Subscribe and get …
This is a one-skein. crescent shawl with a difference. There are no stockinette or garter stitch sections – instead, graceful lace flows uninterruptedly outwards towards the very tips, and downwards towards the beaded diamond border. Perfect for that single skein of luxury yarn, it was designed with lace addicts and frugal-minded knitters in mind – …
The Delphi shawl is named for the location where the Pythian Games, one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, were held. These games honoring Apollo were held every 4 years, 2 years after the Olympiads, and the winner was awarded a laurel wreath (the Olympic games honored Zeus with an olive wreath as the …
I designed this shawl to feature the KnitCircus lmpressionist yarn in the colorway Space is Big, Really Big. From the KnitCircus website, a description of the colorway: Inspired by the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trilogy by Douglass Adams, this color celebrates the vastness of space, “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is, I …
Get our free shawl patterns as well as 2 different cowls, a cardigan and a fun pair of fingerless mitts!
A fritillary is a very pretty butterfly that I had the honor of befriending this past summer. The Oxford dictionary lists fritillary as a butterfly with orange-brown wings that are checkered with black. This shawl certainly has the orange of the butterfly’s wings and a checkered pattern. The yarn featured in this design is a …
The Madeira Shawl is a fingering weight, crescent-shaped shawl featuring Old Spanish lace stitch patterns such as the Madeira Cascade and Madeira Mesh, adding some exquisite, lacy charm to the shawl. The shawl is worked bottom up, beginning with the lace border, followed by the mesh pattern and then knit into a crescent shape using …
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus “Second Spring” is a fingering weight, crescent-shaped shawl featuring a leaf lace border. The shawl is worked bottom up, beginning with the lace border, and then knit into a crescent shape using short rows. The shawl is embellished with beads in …
Our annual tutorial issue! Enjoy 4 free patterns and 10 tutorials! Several are companions to the patterns to help you out with the more challenging bits.
Crafting in the summer months can be a challenge! We have several designs that work well to either use or work on in the warm months. And of course, several tutorials as well!
In my memories, childhood summer was a magical time of never-ending sunshine, trips to the pool or park and hours spent riding bikes or just playing with my friends. Carefree times of just “being”. Dressing up for special occasions meant trading flip-flops and shorts for sundresses and flirty white ankle socks, with cuffs that turned …
We’ve given you several ways to add beads to knitting, and we go into the pros and cons of each: Beading by pre-stringing (this page) Beading with a crochet hook Beading with Superfloss We suggest that you read all 3 (they each have their benefits) and even try each of them on a swatch. We’ll be …
We’ve given you several ways to add beads to knitting, and we go into the pros and cons of each: Beading by pre-stringing Beading with a crochet hook (this page) Beading with Superfloss We suggest that you read all 3 (they each have their benefits) and even try each of them on a swatch. We’ll …
Add a little frill to your bind off with the Beaded Picot Bind Off! It does use quite a bit more yarn than a standard bind off, so make sure you have enough yarn. And of course, you’ll need beads. For our examples, we’ll CO 3 sts, k1, place bead, BO 6 sts, slip 1 …
