Hope & Happiness Make-A-Long

The Hope and Happiness Make-A-Long is a 6 week knit and crochet event starting today (June 1st) and hosted on Ravelry. 10 designers and 5 indie dyers from around the world came together and created 14 inspiring summer projects for you to create. 

Below is the look-book of all the designs and yarn used in this collection. Each pattern is available on Ravelry from the individual designer and yarn can be ordered from the indie dyer's websites.

Komfort Stole is a crochet pattern created using Sweet Paprika's Grazioso lace weight yarn in colour Spring. The stole is created in two halves worked from the center out to the edges. It features crossed double crochets, picots and shells. 

Komfort Stole - photography © Paulo Chow

Komfort Stole - photography © Cheryl Chow

I hope you will join us on Ravelry for this make-a-long!

Knitscene Winter 2016

Have you seen the latest Knitscene magazine? Winter 2016 edition has Fête Cardigan designed by me, pictured on page 26 and 27. 

Knitscene Winter 2016

It's a top down, raglan sleeved cardigan with lots of pretty cables and a touch of lace too.

Fête Cardigan

If you plan to knit this cardigan, I've created a tutorial for the pkyk stitch that is only available to newsletter subscribers. Sign up for my newsletter and you will find a link to the tutorial inside the October edition emailed on October 12th.

Photo by KLMPhotos.com

There are lots of beautiful patterns in this magazine, so I hope you check them all out!

Happy Knitting!

Japanese Lace Stitch

In a few of my designs I use this pretty lace stitch that I found in a couple of Japanese stitch dictionaries. It's really easy to work and creates a different fabric depending on if you work only one stitch or multiple stitches in a row. 

I call it the pkyk stitch for Pass Knit Yarnover Knit

On my Strolling Cardigan it is worked multiple times in a row to create a lacy lattice.

On this grey cable and lace cardigan it is worked once in a column with 2 purl stitches on either side to create a faux cable.

To work this stitch (pkyk):
Worked over 3 stitches.

• Pass the third stitch on the LH needle over the first two stitches and off the needle
• Knit one stitch
• Yarn over
• Knit the second stitch

Work to where you want to create the pkyk stitch

  

Slip 3rd stitch purlwise  

Slip stitch over first 2 stitches and off the needle

Creates a "bar" across the first 2 stitches

Knit one stitch

Yarn over

Knit one stitch

Result of finished pkyk stitch

Knit to end of row

Pkyk stitch with 3 rows of stickinette in between on a stockinette background

Happy Knitting!

Socks

For the most part I like to knit sweaters, specifically cardigans and for smaller projects hats. In the past I knit a lot of socks but got away from knitting them as my sock drawer was full. Now, since the weather is warming up, I was looking for some smaller projects to work on and fell back in love with knitting socks. 

I had a tub full of sock yarn, mostly leftovers but also some full skeins just waiting for the perfect pattern.

The first socks I knit were some plain jane socks with some yarn my mom gifted me for Christmas last year. They are so comfortable!

Then I started thinking about creating 5 or 6 new sock patterns and creating an e-book. So, with 5 patterns designed and another 1 or 2 to do, the e-book is in the works. I will add each individual sock pattern to the Ravelry database as it is finished being tested but expect the e-book to be complete by the end of June. 

Perfect small projects for summer knitting.

On The Needles

I received some yarn from Solitude Wool, this gorgeous Border Leicester Sport, naturally dyed in Osage Orange colourway.

What will it become? That will be a surprise as I'm not allowed to say. Here's a sneak peak ...

 

Happy Knitting!

Lace Hat

Resu, a pretty lace hat knit in 100% linen yarn. This is another pattern in my summer series that I hope to release at the end of May. Currently it is being tested on Ravelry here.