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!

Wrapping

A couple of upcoming designs will include a "wrap" or "cluster" stitch. This is where you wrap the working yarn or contrast yarn around a set of stitches. Sometimes this technique is used for smocking but I'm using it more for texture than to draw in the knitted garment. 

Here's a short tutorial on how to do a wrap stitch demonstrated on my upcoming hat pattern, Currant.

WRAP TECHNIQUE

Start by slipping 3 stitches from the left hand needle onto a cable needle.

Take the working yarn or contrast yarn and wrap around the stitches on the cable needle from the back of the work to the front. 

Wrap the yarn 3 times around the 3 stitches on the cable needle. 

Knit the 3 stitches on the cable needle onto the right hand needle. 

Carry the contrast yarn loosely behind the work until you reach the next stitches to be wrapped. 

Happy Knitting!