December 15, 2015
2015 was a great year. Ysolda first ever yarn club focussed on shawls and club members eagerly filled their knitting needles with some great projects. The club featured custom spun, or dyed yarns unique to members, each with its own pattern. As excitement builds about next year’s club (there are more details here, and still spaces!) I thought it would be a good time to show some of the lovely shawls the club, and knitters, created.
All the patterns will be available individually to all a year from when they were first published, so you can look forward to the first shawl being released in February 2016 – not long!
This is Caer Idris, a long asymmetric wrap, as knit by Lozetteu. Caer Idris has a fascinating and fun shape, which you can see in the picture of Jorunnellen‘s version below. Her version also shows the shape and length which makes it a great one for tossing round your neck and layering.
Crockern Tor was the third installement in the club, a semi-circular shawl knit in a gorgeous lace yarn spun especially for club members by John Arbon. Pictured above are versions by IsabelES and sadtomato.
Stac Shoaigh was the very first yarn and pattern to drop through members’ letterboxes, and the Shetland, Soay fibre blend spun especially by Blacker Yarns seemed to be the perfect thing for dreary winter days. Above is Elizza‘s shawl in a very beautiful location! One club member decided to use the natural yarn as a base for colour, and dyed her skein a stunning green. There are more details on SnowWhiteMama’s project page here.
Osebury Rock is an easy colourwork scarf, knit in the round with an ingenious way of creating a steek to form a fringe at either end. The inspiration for this yarn which was dyed by John of Easyknits.co.uk on his new Squidge base was roasted vegetables, the pinterest board for which can be found here! Above is Mr Puffy‘s stunning version, and iws‘s scarf below shows off the fringe, which I can’t wait to make when I cast on my own.
The yarn for Malton Oolite, a two colour shawl with brioche was the result of a great collaboration. Our friends at Baa Ram Ewe custom dyed their own Titus yarn in a lovely mustard yellow, and then Victoria of Eden Cottage Yarns over-dyed smaller skeins of that yellow to create the contrast. Shown above are shawls by debkmsb and finnsbydog – lovely work!
The final pattern, Lunna Voe was released last week. Although knitters are quick, there’s not been quite enough time to show you finished versions, knit up in a stunning Shetland laceweight dyed by Lilith of Old Maiden Aunt. You can keep an eye on the projects in progress here, and we’ll hopefully be sharing final shawls soon!
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Learn brioche with the free Daniel's Hat pattern
Tombreck - a free chevron beanie pattern
Working the brioche neck detail on the Polwarth sweater
Decorative Channel Island Cast-on
3 Easy Stretchy Bind-offs (p2tog bind-off; k2togtbl, k1 bind-off; Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind-off)
Tubular Bind-off for brioche stitch
Paired increase methods compared
Brioche stitch double decreases
How to Knit in the round using Magic Loop
How to Knit in the round using DPNs
Avoiding ears when binding off
Tighter purl stitches for neater cables and ribbing
Cabling without a cable needle
Understanding "continue in pattern"
Joining the body and sleeves on a seamless bottom up sweater
How to pick a garment without a model for you (specifically addresses finding garment patterns when your gender identity isn't represented and the styles you want to knit might not be sized to fit your body)
How does ease affect inclusive size ranges?
Identifying and fixing mistakes in lace knitting
Getting started with stranded colourwork
Understanding colour dominance
Working stranded colourwork over small circumferences
Decreases in stranded colourwork
Holding the yarn for stranded colourwork
Ladderback Jacquard (a neat way to deal with long floats)
Cabling without a cable needle
Cabling without a cable needle on the wrong side
How to knit cabled decreases
Closed ring cable increases and decreases
How to work brioche stitch in the round
How to begin your first large cross stitch project
How to finish a cross stitch project with an embroidery hoop frame
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