This shawl is an ode to cold, calm, and white snowy days that winter gracefully give us sometimes. The shawl starts at the centre edge and is worked as a half-pi shaped shawl. Its double yarn over stitch pattern progress throughout the body of the shawl getting more scattered as you progress. The stripy lace border is then worked in German Short Rows. Short rows are really simple to work and they are almost invisible on stocking stitch. This way the border almost blends in the shawl body.
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Clouds and rain drops does get along pretty well, am I right? Even if they might not be your best friends when they gather in the sky, I’m pretty sure you’ll love to warm your feet in them. I called the pattern Soaked to the Skin and you can find it for free on Knotions website.
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I have a deep love for single yarns and speckled yarn. Why? Oh, I’m glad you asked! To keep things sweet and short, I’m mesmerised by it.
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One of the best part of being a designer is seeing YOU knitting the patterns I designed. Here are a few example to inspire you the next time you’ll be in search of a sock pattern.
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Evolving from a little spring sprout to full-grown foliage over the knitting, the Jeune Pousse shawl will wrap you and keep you warm and cosy throughout the cold winter months and allow you to bloom again when the Spring comes back.
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Being a one-woman company can sometimes feels a bit like being an orchestra-woman. I’m taking all my pattern pictures by myself, with my camera and a tripod. And sometimes it gets really tricky… And funny!
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Brioche knitting allow us to add some vertical stripes in our knits, something which is not so easy to implement otherwise. Near the end of this shawl I felt the need to balance all this vertically with horizontal stripes. Because what’s better than stripes ? More stripes!
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Don’t you love to cast-on new projects? When working on a new design, starting to knit the sample is far from being the first step of it. It’s both a rewards for all the work which have already been done and an exciting moment.
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One of the things I learnt over the years, is that a good scale is an essential tool for knitters. Even more if you’re a knitting designer or pattern tester!
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For this particular project, I wanted an overall cohesive look. But it gets difficult to achieve when you have to match both seven colours together with high contrast colourwork requirements! So I opted for the safe bet with pink-red-orange shades. Building a colour palette tips and tricks.
This new shawl was an asymmetrical triangular shawl design, with lace on the inside and a huge garter stitch border in a contrasting colour. Well, it turns out that this shawl was not meant to be. As beautiful as it could be, I did not felt it was right with this yarn.
Blue has grown on me lately. I’m getting to some point where I really like pastel blues, turquoises, or even blue mints. And it does pair beautifully with one of my favourite colours, coral!