Tag: bold beginner knits

  • design spotlight

    design spotlight

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    rectangles, triangles, cardigans

  • downstream

    downstream

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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

    Triangular shawl construction

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    Kate Davies Designs
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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

    footfall

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    Kate Davies Designs
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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

    Corryvreckan

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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”

    “join body and sleeves into yoke”

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    Kate Davies Designs
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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

    float upstream

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    Kate Davies Designs
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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…

  • Bold Beginner Knits

    Bold Beginner Knits

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    A few months ago, when Jane decided to learn to knit, I thought it might be nice to design a few things just for her. Simple patterns aimed at beginner knitters are sometimes not terribly exciting, either in the making or the wearing, so I set myself the challenge of designing some simple patterns that…