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Knitting: Poncho
Adamantite is a circular poncho. It is started from the center and worked in the round, top down, evenly increasing the stitch count until the outer edge is reached. You are always knitting on the right side of the fabric (RS), until you reach the edge portion of the poncho. The work is begun with short circular needles and continued with longe...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Aletheia is a circular shawl. It is started from the center and knitted in the round, evenly increasing the stitch count until the outer edge is reached. You are always knitting on the right side of the fabric, until you reach the edge portion of the shawl. The work is begun with double pointed needles and continued with circular needles as the...
Knitting: Cape
Cadence Capelet is a lacy cabled capelet. It is started from the neckband and worked flat, increasing evenly until the outer edge is reached. The capelet is framed by garter stitch and fastened using a hook and eye. There are seven identical cable panels and six identical lace panels.
Knitting: Scarf
Callidora was designed originally for Clotheshorse magazine and published on their Winter 2012/2013 issue. Now the pattern is available also on Ravelry, in Henna’s store. This fully revised and re-written pattern includes both charted and written instructions.
Knitting: Vest
Consonance means “harmony or agreement among components”. I felt the name suited this vest because of the harmonious way the cable pattern flows.
Knitting: Cardigan
Epidote, a buttoned cardigan, is worked seamlessly from the top down. First the back is worked to the underarm, using short rows to shape the shoulders. Then stitches for each front are picked up from the back cast-on and worked separately to the underarm, where they are joined with the back and worked back and forth to the hem. Sleeve stitches...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This square-shaped shawl is made up of four identical triangular sections separated by narrow columns. It is worked from the top down and finished with an I-Cord bind-off.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl begins at the center back neck and is worked down to the lace border. The stitch pattern is charted only. The chart is quite large.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Sunray Shawl was designed in the middle of a dark and cold winter. The lace pattern and the colorway vividly reminded me of the sun during these long months - hence the name. I am not a big fan of purling, so this time I decided to design the shawl on garter stitch ground. There is zero purling and the shawl is reversible.
Knitting: Cardigan
Viator is Latin, meaning “traveller”. I felt the name belonged to this cardigan because of the cables travelling from the bottom back hem, over the shoulders and to the front hems.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Wheelwright is started from the upper edge and knitted flat, evenly increasing the stitch count until the outer edge is reached. The lace pattern is worked on RS only, the WS rows are purled.
Knitting: Scarf
Named for the lines winding through the scarf’s one end to the other, this scarf is knitted in two identical pieces which are then joined using kitchener stitch. The lace pattern is worked on the right side only and it is framed on both sides by three stitches of garter stitch.
Knitting: Pullover
This pullover, featuring wide cable panels on both sides, is worked seamlessly from the top down. Sleeve stitches are picked up around the armholes and sleeve caps are shaped using short rows. The cable patterns are given in chart form only.
Knitting: Cardigan
This pattern is offered for free as it is. The pattern has NOT been tech edited or test knitted.
Knitting: Scarf
This scarf is knitted in two identical pieces, which are joined using kitchener stitch. In this way the shawl will become symmetrical.