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downstream

By: July 7, 2019July 7, 2019

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Downstream, a simple top-down cardigan with raglan shaping, is a sleek and wearable knit.
Progressing through the Bold Beginner Knits patterns, I find my confidence in my knitting has grown…

Triangular shawl construction

By: Kate Davies Designs June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

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A Bold Beginner Knits Tutorial Shawls can be constructed in many different ways, using many different shapes – triangles, rectangles, combinations of triangles and rectangles and other geometric shapes. Footfall is a triangular shawl with a top-down construction which begins by casting on a few stitches and ends by binding off many. This shape is…

footfall

By: Kate Davies Designs June 19, 2019June 19, 2019

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Are you a beginner knitter who is wary of lace shawls? Does the very idea of putting holes in your knitting scare you? Or does a lace shawl just appear too complicated a thing for you to consider attempting? Well, Footfall – the latest pattern release from Bold Beginner Knits – offers you a deceptively…

Corryvreckan

By: June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

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This week’s release from Bold Beginner Knits was borne out of the need to swatch.
How on earth are these crazy waves made?!

“join body and sleeves into yoke”

By: Kate Davies Designs June 9, 2019June 9, 2019

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A Bold Beginner Knits tutorial for the Upstream pullover When you are knitting your first sweater an instruction to “join body and sleeves into yoke” might appear especially bamboozling. You have, on your needles, one body and two sleeves. How on earth do you combine these three separate tubes so that they magically become one…

float upstream

By: Kate Davies Designs June 8, 2019June 8, 2019

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Hello! Kate here. It’s time for another release from the Bold Beginner Knits collection – the Upstream pullover. Seamless yoked pullovers are a great first sweater project for a beginner knitter to tackle, and I knew I wanted to include one in this collection. And loving the muted marl-y palette of Àrd-Thìr, I was keen…