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The Leadenhall Sweater Pattern is available now on Ravelry and Payhip!
Urban environments can provide many excellent design inspirations, and external staircases on tall buildings are particularly dramatic examples. This sweater uses twisted stitches and contrasting textures to create the effect of a wide staircase making its way between building levels. Each building level and staircase return is highlighted with a stripe in a contrasting shade.
The Leadenhall Sweater knitting pattern is a beautifully textured design that combines twisted stitches, cables, and stripes for a sophisticated look. With a crew neck and long sleeves, this intermediate-level pattern is worked flat and seamed, featuring a bottom-up construction. The pattern includes both written and chart instructions, as well as a schematic for easy assembly. Available in 7 sizes to fit bust measurements from 81-86cm/32-34in up to 142-147cm/56-58in.
Yarn: Cat and Sparrow Oh So Fine! DK (DK weight, 55% superwash Bluefaced Leicester wool, 45% silk; 212m/232yds per 100g skein)
Shade A: Spice Market 6 (7:7:7:8:8:9) × 100g skeins
Shade B: Sleeping Dragon 1 (2:2:2:2:2:2) × 100g skeins
Find out more about designing the Leadenhall sweater in my interview with Rachael on the Cat and Sparrow Blog!
The Gentle Rain Shawl Pattern is available now on Ravelry and Payhip!
Inspired by the poems “A Drop fell On The Apple Tree and “Like Rain It Sounded Till It Curved” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the Gentle Rain Shawl represents the individual raindrops that often precede an intensive rain shower. The poet Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1800 poems during her lifetime and many of her poems contain detailed references to the natural world and the weather.
The stitch pattern builds up gradually from textured eyelets worked within garter stitch to larger eyelet holes on a stocking stitch background. Each stitch pattern represents the changing intensity of a rain shower, with the final drops worked as a picot cast off edge. The shawl is knitted with one skein of merino silk 4ply yarn and one skein of alpaca silk lace yarn held together throughout, with the alpaca fibres gently blurring both the yarn shades and the stitch patterns.
Yarns: Irish Artisan Yarn Hand Dyed 4ply Yarn (85% Non-superwash Merino, 15% Silk, 450m/492yd per 100g skein) Shade Flax; 1 × 100g skein held together with: Irish Artisan Yarn Hand Dyed Lace Yarn (75% Baby Suri Alpaca, 25% Silk, 420m/460yd per 50g skein) Shade Cornflower; 1 × 100g skeins.
Find out more about designing the Gentle Rain Shawl in my interview on the Stitchmastery Blog!
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Emma Vining
Emma Vining is a widely published knitting designer and author who is known for her creative use of knitted textures and cables.
Her designs regularly feature in magazines including The Knitter and Knitting magazine and she actively collaborates with yarn companies and independent hand-dyers.
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