Brioche Fade Coaster
This simple pattern is a fun and functional way to test out color choices for any brioche stitch pattern with a color fade. It is the same instruction found in the gauge swatch section of the Blooming Brioche pattern. While working this small project, you’ll learn how to work a slip stitch selvedge and create a color fade in brioche stitch. It contains written and charted instructions and a few video lessons. The pattern makes a coaster or trivet using scrap amounts of fingering weight yarn.
Leaf and Star
These patterns are designed to teach the Stacked Stitch technique and to help you get comfortable with the increases and decreases.
The Oak Leaf is a fun little introduction to stacked decreases. This technique can be used to create lobe shaped edging, flame stitch motifs, and shaping. You may have seen it in other patterns like Fox Paws which use the wavy stitch in colorwork. Stacked decreases are worked by slipping stitches back to the left needle to work them again.
The stars are a fun way to learn stacked increases. You may have seen these in the Fox Paws patterns and wondered how they work. You can use these fun stars to practice stacked increases before jumping into a more complex project, or just make them because they’re a lot of fun. Stacked increases are worked by slipping stitches back to the left needle to work them again.
Mom's Request Shawl
My mother requested that I make her a light, soft and warm shawl to cover her shoulders. I set out to find a pattern. Then the obvious occurred to me to ask my daughter, a designer, to create a pattern for her grandmother. I told her that I wanted it to be simple to knit and chic enough to wear out. It had to wrap around her shoulders and stay put, even if worn without a brooch to secure the ends.
A marled grey yarn, which perfectly complemented her interests in graphic arts, architecture, and black and white photography, makes up the body of the shawl. The solid black border with just a hint of silky shine perfectly finishes off the edge.