I have always encouraged and found that inspiration is everywhere. This cowl pattern takes it’s inspiration from The Red Hot Chilli Peppers song ‘Can’t Stop’ and specifically the music video!
It is a cowl knitted in the round in sock weight yarn. You can knit all one colour or stripe as the example. The choice is yours. It has tubes around the right side which are not visible from the wrong/side next to your skin. It can be worn in several ways, looping twice around your neck, knotted to worn loose. It suits all…have fun.
It requires 450m of sock weight yarn. For the two coloured version 225m of each colour.
The Lace Knittery HQ is in South Somerset and I am often crossing the Somerset levels, travelling towards Greylake I am often the only car on the road and I am joined by a barn owl ghosting along the road next to me. There is nothing for it but to slow down and enjoy the flight of this wonderful bird.
The wrap has an all over feather pattern. It is knitted straight on 4mm needles and requires 800m of lace weight yarn. The yarn in the pattern is extra fine merino, silk and sparkle yarn hand dyed by The Lace Knittery.
The Lace Knittery is based in rural Somerset and it is cider country. We even toast the trees at wassail. The Lace Knittery Baby Apples Wrap was inspired by the apple orchards around the studio in spring. The wrap has an all over leaf pattern with a ruffled edge. This is optional. The colour of the yarn in the photo is hand painted by The Lace Knittery and is the colour of baby apples when they are first set on the trees.
It requires 800m of lace weight yarn. The yarn in the photo is hand painted kid mohair and silk and is available from The Lace Knittery.
We keep bees at The Lace Knittery and the inspiration for this beanie hat comes from the old fashioned skeps. It is knitted in the round and multi sized. It can be knitted in multiple weight yarns and requires around 100m.
The yarn used in the photo is a DK weight merino, silk and sparkle mix hand painted by The Lace Knittery.
This is the mobius version of The Lace Knittery Ebbtide Scarf. It was inspired by the shoreline and lochs of the west coast of Scotland. The central lace pattern echoes sand on an ebbing tide and is knitted straight. It is joined and the ruffle seaweed edging is picked up at the end. This allows you to leave it without or not.
It is knitted in lace weight yarn but the pattern is adaptable up to DK weight yarn. It takes 420m yarn and the yarn in the photo is a hand painted kid mohair and silk from The Lace Knittery.
This The Lace Knittery pattern was inspired by a trip to Argyl in the west of Scotland. I spent an enjoyable and vast number of hours just watching the tide and walking along the strand line of Loch Fyne and wandering around the wooded shores of Loch Awe.
The scarf has a main lace pattern and the ruffled edge is picked up at the end. This gives you the opportunity to add it or not. It is knitted in lace weight yarn but as always with The Lace Knittery patterns I like them to be adaptable so it can be knitted in up to DK weight yarns using the same needle size and instructions.
The yarn in the photo is kid mohair and silk and is hand painted by The Lace Knittery.
I have lost count of the number of these mitts I have made. The Lace Knittery Embellished Mitts are just fun to make and wear (and give away!). They are knitted in the round and then let your imagination go wild. I have beaded, embroidered, appliqued, all three or just left plain. Go wild.
They can be knitted in lace weight to DK weight yarn and take 20-25g.
At The Lace Knittery I like to think outside the boundaries…why should we knit lace with lace weight yarn. The Lace Knittery Exmoor Snuggle Aran Scarf is one of my Big Lace designs, inspired by Simonsbath in the heart of Exmoor and not far from The Lace Knittery HQ. It is a triangular wrap knitted in aran weight yarn. You can leave at scarf size or carry on to a wrap size. It has a bobble edging that is knitted as you go along. Wear front or back it suits everybody and is a nice easy knit.
It requires 400m of aran weight yarn.
The photo yarn is merino and donegal nep hand painted in Exmoor colour way and is available from The Lace Knittery.
The Inspiration for The Lace Knittery Frosted Leaf Shawl came from a New Year’s Day walk. It was frosty and then we reached the lovely West Bay. The sea was crashing on shore but it was bright sparkling sunshine.
It is a triangular shawl with a picot edge. It is knitted from the lower edge. This allows the knitter to decide the finished size from scarf to enormous wrap. It requires 800m of lace weight yarn but can also be knitted in DK weight yarn using the same needle size and instructions.
The yarn in the photo is a merino, silk and sparkle lace weight, hand painted in Stormy Sea colour way and available from The Lace knittery.
I designed The Lace Knittery Great British Baby Blanket to be as useful as possible. It is cot size making it usable from the car seat to the pram, has an all over heart shaped lace pattern and has the moss stitch border knitted as you go. It is knitted in a lace weight yarn but would work in DK weight too.
The yarn used in the photo is a superwash blue faced leicester yarn…a British only breed! It is available from The Lace Knittery.
This The Lace Knittery wrap was inspired by our local river here in Somerset. One day in June the air was so still and clear and walking along by the river you could see fish, frogs and fry all along the river. The air was full of dragonflies, damselflies and the haunt of kingfishers.
The wrap is rectangular and is an allover lace pattern. It requires 800m of lace weight yarn. Sample photo is a kid mohair and silk hand painted yarn by The Lace Knittery.
I designed this The Lace Knittery pattern to make something cute, warm and wearable. It is also a great stash buster using only 10g of yarn. It has an allover lace pattern and can be worked using up to DK weight yarn.
I find inspiration everywhere and The Lace Knittery Lavender Fields Wrap was inspired by a holiday to the south of France. We had two small children in the back of the car and pulled off the autoroute and then stopped dead for two hours in a traffic jam. Within ten minutes we had exhausted I spy, and had been asked ‘are we there yet’ along with ‘I need a wee’, ‘she hit me’, ‘no she hit me’, ‘I’m hungry” and ‘are we there yet’…they only survived because I was looking over long lines of purple lavender with mountains beyond!
It is a lovely pattern that is eight rows. It has been worked in any weight yarn from lace to aran. The pattern is written for lace weight and if using up to DK weight yarn follow exactly. Above this weight just go up on the needle size. It requires 800m of yarn.
At The Lace Knittery I am slightly addicted to scarves. They are pretty and practical and are small enough projects to take with you. This The Lace Knittery Pattern is our best selling mermaid wrap in a scarf form. It is knitted straight and then joined into a mobius shape at the end…or not!
It is knitted in 400m of lace weight yarn but the pattern will work up to a DK weight. The yarn in the photo is kid mohair and silk hand painted by The Lace Knittery
This The Lace Knittery wrap pattern is based on a Shetland stitch and was inspired by a rockhounding day on the Bristol Channel. The sea was like glass, there was no one in sight and I had just found out that razor clams were called mermaid combs on this patch of coastline. I was pondering this as I wandered along and some porpoise broke the surface a few feet from shore…magical!
It is a rectangular wrap and is knitted using 650-800m of lace weight yarn. The yarn in the photo is a hand painted blue faced leicester and silk mix from The Lace Knittery.
One of the first patterns I designed and still one of my favourites. It was inspired by my daughters and the hours they spent at Warwick Castle trailing the peacocks hoping that one would drop a feather. We eventually found three…my daughters have left home but I still have the feathers in my studio.
The wrap is rectangular and has a border pattern with the main body in a peacock feather motif. It is knitted in lace weight yarn and requires 800m.
The pattern has both written and charted instructions. You can use either.
The yarn in the photo is a hand painted kid mohair and silk by The Lace Knittery
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