Bex Knitty Design

   Today sees the release of the  'Trawler Shawl' ,  available in my Ravelry store ' Bex Knitty Design ' and shortly also on LoveCrafts.com! This shawl is full of traditional elements and cosy goodness, making for an engaging and developing knit, and which is both lovely to look at and easy & comfortable to wear.  This shawl is constructed as an asymmetrical triangle. It heavily features twisted stitches and cables to add interest and texture to the knitting process, interspersed with seed stitch and garter bands to give small frequent “restful” stitches to provide ease between them. I used two colours but to suit your choices of yarn options you can use one or as many colours for the different sections as you wish As usual with my releases, it will be FREE for the first day or so, which means until end of day (CEST - Central European Summer Time) on the 29th October 2022 and then with 25% off until end of day (CET - Central European Time) on the 4th Novem...

  Today sees the release of the  'Woven Cowl' , available in my Ravelry store ' Bex Knitty Design ' and shortly also on LoveCrafts.com! This cowl 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 side produced with bands of Linen stitch, as well as twisted stitches, bobbles, cables and garter stripes, creating an almost olden world woven look, from another era but also timeless in its snuggly promise. It is a fairly close-fitting cowl that you knit as a single layer for something a bit lighter or a double layer version, offering a more substantial cosy option. A provisional cast on is used at the start for that version and then opened once all the patterning part is worked leaving only stockinette fabric to be worked up to match the length of the patterned half you have already worked, to be joined by using a 3rd needle like a kind of halfway 3 needle bind off. Both versions are the...

                                             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 ...

    New Knitting Adventures... For me, at least, the bulk of knitting releases I have always launched during the later half of the year and so now that 'busy' time is soon upon me... I am all ready to go actually, with most test knitting wrapped up, so it should be a fairly smooth ride, with 6 new patterns to release over Sep/Oct/Nov, the first of which will be The Woven Shawl on the 30th September 😀 I love the texture of this shawl, it has a very traditional homely woven look - hence the name lol - created by utilising both sides of Linen stitch, as well as squishy Garter stitch which for me is the quiet hero of knitting. In other news... All of this preprepatory organization has paid off as planned, in that it has left me free to work on my most scariest and probably due to be longest project so far - the sweater I am currently knitting up  At first it was alot of throwing myself into the maths side which totally daunts me and even more of knitting 2 rounds just to rip...

  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 ...