A day at the beach

Photos ©Stephen West

This triangular shawl begins with a tiny triangle at the center of the shawl. Parallelograms are stacked on the three sides of the triangle hence the name Trianglegram. Each parallelogram shape is knit one at a time while being attached to the previous sections for an entirely seamless project. Repeat the stripes until you are ready to bind off. The small size features four colors of West Wool Bicycle and the large multi-color size features a variety of fingering weight yarns and some fluffy suri alpaca accents. Relaxing garter stitch makes this pattern easy to knit and striking to wear.

You can purchase the individual pattern or you can purchase the ebook that will have at least 8 patterns.

The Westknits Winter e-book contains 8 new knitting accessories and sweaters. Each Friday during December and January, you will receive pattern updates in your Ravelry library as the entire collection is revealed. 

The designs range from colorful hats and cowls to large shawls and fun-to-knit sweaters. 

The e-book is available for a discounted price of 25 EUR until the end of 2019. In 2020, the e-book will be 30 EUR. 

Five 100g skeins of yarn is enough to knit the large size or dive into your stash for a fun scrappy version! 

Multi-color Version You can use as many colors as you like if you prefer to knit a more scrappy multi-color version. I used mostly fingering weight yarn, but some of my stripes are sport weight suri or merino yarns. Try holding a strand of lace weight mohair together with a fingering weight yarn for a fuzzy accent stripe.

This is a great project for over the holidays. Bring out your stash and play with colours.

We have new gradient kits from Manos del Uruguay and this time they are worsted weight. Yay! Bigger needles.

Bocados, Spanish for "little bites," celebrates the fun of colorwork knitting! These 25g mini-skeins of Alegria Grande are perfect for projects that need a bit of colour, or a small amount of many colours. 

75% Superwash Merino, 25% Polyamide  

You can buy these in a kit with 10 skeins for $80 or you can purchase individual skeins for $8.

These fingerless mitts take 3 skeins and the pattern is free on Ravelry.

When your heart says “Spring” but the thermometer says “ugh”, turn to these cute little mitts. They knit up quickly with 3 Alegria Grande Bocados, with frequent color changes to keep you entertained. When they’re done, you’ll have warm hands and a cheerful reminder of warmer days ahead.

Rainbow Road (a free pattern) is knit with 6 Bocados.

Everyone knows the Road of Life is neither a straight line nor a simple arc. It zigs and zags, it swerves and meanders. Sometimes all that keeps us going is wanting to see the next color coming around the bend. For times like that (or anytime you need a quick and cheerful project), we recommend this Rainbow Road cowl.

We have another new yarn in the store - Alpaca Merino Chunky from Estelle Designs.

I love Ravelry but I have one complaint. When you are looking at yarn thickness they go from Aran to Bulky. In my world (I know not everyone lives in it😘) Bulky would be called Chunky.

This yarn is perfect for patterns asking for Bulky. Hats, mitts, scarves, cowls and sweaters.

Boscoe went to the beach yesterday. There were a lot of sticks to play with.