SoleMates

It’s an easy blog post on the day when Stephen West releases a new pattern. He has many, many pictures and you know that I love pictures.

Photos © Stephen West

This semi-circular shawl features seven colors of fingering weight yarn striped together. Textured stitches and eyelet stitch patterns decorate the large shawl shape. Each section is simple and addicting, so you are always looking forward to the next color and stitch pattern. The instructions include video tutorial links to learn how to work the I-cord Tab Cast On, the Elongated Criss Cross stitches, and I-cord Bind Off. Choose seven colors with a high-contrast color relationship for a bold and graphic striped shawl. You can also select seven shades that have a softer low-contrast effect for a subtle textured shawl. The border is decorated with chevron eyelets, resulting in a large, light, and flowy Westknits shawl. 

The pattern is available for purchase on Stephen’s website. 

We don’t have these colours of LITLG in stock but I am very certain we can find colours that are very close in Madelinetosh Merino Light or in Hedgehog Skinny Singles.

Yardage 
1900 yds/ 1737m total 
Color A - 300yds / 274m 
Color B - 240yds / 219m 
Color C - 400yds / 366m 
Color D - 400yds / 366m 
Color E - 180yds / 165m 
Color F - 200yds / 183m 
Color G - 180yds / 165m 

The Shawl Smorgasbord is here and it is a feast for the eyes! This shawl is like a platter of all your favorite stitches and techniques that come together to create this stunning masterpiece. I'm so in love with this design because it incorporates lots of eyelet elements and there are endless possibilities for dynamic color palettes. This semi-circular shawl features seven colors of fingering weight yarn striped together and you can choose high contrast colors for a bold, graphic shawl or softer, low contrast shades for a more subtle textured shawl. I can't wait to see all of the beautiful color combinations you come up with to knit your own Shawl Smorgasbord!

Take a look at some of the finished shawls on Ravelry.

Tina from Freia Fibers shared this picture on Instagram today.

It's waaaaay to hot for socks right now but I couldn't resist sharing this picture with you of some of our samples in our (Fall release) SoleMate sock sets! 

You're not seeing double! These little guys are tracked all through production from start to finish to ensure each pair stays with it's mate - giving you the pair of perfectly identical SoleMates! These are dyed on a Shaniko Merino Superwash base that just gets softer with each wash - and they are already soft to begin with. You will ooh and ahh when you have these on your feet. 

At the H+H trade show I strong-armed shop owners into trying on the socks and everyone was awed at how dreamy they felt on their feet. We will have over 80 colors to pick from.. Which color will you be starting with?!?

I finished the recommended number of rows on my Elah cardigan last night during The Amazing Race Canada. I wasn’t up to putting the stitches back on a needle and knitting the back so I pulled out my Jade Scarf.

This is the finished scarf. I’m at the halfway point. I was hoping that the scarf would be ready for Camp. That isn’t going to happen. It might come out in the fashion show on needles 😀