Bex Knitty Design

  Today sees the release of the ' Woven Hat ' , available in my Ravelry store ' Bex Knitty Design ' and shortly also on LoveCrafts.com! This Hat is packed with texture and interest so there’s hardly a dull moment as you create a squishy cosy fabric utilizing both the Right and Wrong sides of bands of Linen stitch, as well bobbles, cables & garter stripes, creating an almost olden world woven look, from another era but also timeless in its snuggly promise. A provisional cast on is used at the start, if you are opting for a picot edging for the brim, and then opened and the picot bind off worked, once you have worked your way through the body of the hat and completed the closure of the crown. You can add more ‘slouch’ amount by working extra garter ridges before commencing with crown decreases. Knitting skills & techniques used: Intermediate - Advanced: Casting on/provisional cast on using crochet hook method and waste yarn, binding off (with picot option), knitti...

Today sees the release of the  'Trawler Hat' ,  available in my Ravelry store ' Bex Knitty Design ' and shortly also on LoveCrafts.com! This hat is a combination of an intuitive and dense geometric pattern of twisted stitches for texture and interest and the warmth of a squishy fisherman’s rib brim, making for toasty warmth in the cold weather. The result is an engaging knit and a hat of cosy goodness, which is both lovely to look at and great to wear .  After working a snuggly Fisherman’s Rib brim, knit up in either 1 or 2 colours, you’ll work continuously to the crown decreases in the diamond patterned chart made up of alternating Right and Left leaning twists. Due to the nature of these stitches, it is a fairly tight-fitting but is open to various size adjustments. You can add more ‘slouch’ amount by working extra repeats of the chart pattern before proceeding to crown decreases, and in circumference by adjusting the cast on amount, as explained within the Finished ...

                                             Knitting up the leftovers... Over the last few years of designing, I have filled my leftovers drawers with perfectly useable amounts of wool that just have to  grow up to be designs of their own! So I had a good rummage through, came up with some ideas and have already made a start. This gorgeous West Yorkshire Spinners Illustrious Yarn jumped out at me to become a shoulder hugging cowl, the kind of which my daughter has wanted for a while, so this will also make it into her Christmas knits gift pile.  Taking inspiration from its mother pattern - the Moorlands Romance Shawl from which the yarn was left over from - as I wanted to keep elements from that shawl, and because I always feel a more all over pattern works better on a cowl then more individual motifs that require more of laid out canvas to ...

  Back on the Blog... So it's been another long hot Summer and on the knitting front that has not stopped me knitting away on all things woolly! Apart from personal projects and gift knitting (Christmas knitting of jumpers and socks in July! 😅) I managed over the last year to crank out 3 shawls, 2 cowls and a couple of hats that are all due for release late 2022/early 2023 - 3 of which made it into last years Christmas gift knits pile and another will dive into the steadily rising pile for Christmas 2023! I love knitting up a stockpile of designs - as you know- whilst my wonderful stitchsaving test knitters work through prior designs, but that does always mean I will get to the point where I have to put my needles down in order to write up all the patterns so that they can become my next test knitters projects in time for them to finish them before release due dates come around...Not the bit I love 😒 but can't be avoided! So mid-late August was all about that for me, writing ...

  There's always another shaped canvas to choose from...   I started designing with one shawl in mind. It was my ' Fairfield Harvest Shawl ' and it was worked mainly in garter stitch to keep it simple, but it included some slipped stitch patterning, because as you may be able to tell from a few of my designs, I love working slipped stitch patterning. But most importantly it was a triangular shaped shawl which tends to be my most worn shawls, and probably one of my favourite way of creating triangular shawls, it was a long/shallow triangle worked side to side. I like this method of constructing a triangle shaped shawl as I feel it really allows for control over the dimensions, allowing you to modify this a bit, such as in the amount of depth to be allowed for the frontal point. Strangely, I haven't made one since, and maybe that's because it sometimes doesn't seem as simple and I am always thinking how to keep things as simple fo the lovely knitters that choose ...