Raquel Nicolau

eBooks available as Ravelry Downloads

eBook : 7 patterns

Lollipop is a gorgeous collection that features 7 beautiful designs for babies from preemie up to 12 months. From a blanket to a cabled sweater, you certainly have it all!

eBook : 8 patterns

Luz is a beautiful collection that features 8 designs created to the modern knitter. Inside you will find a little bit of everything, from sweaters to cowls, fingerless mitts and more. In this color rich book, a knitter can immerse him/herself into this soft world.

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This nicely textured slouchy hat is soft and
Knitting: Throw
Storm is a soft super bulky blanket featuring
Knitting: Cowl
Stump is a cabled cowl designed to get
Knitting: Shrug / Bolero
Adventurer was inspired in an Irish garment I
Knitting: Pullover
Shannon is a bulky sweater with a 10-stitch
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
To me knitting has always been a journey, especially learning all the different techniques and discovering the beauty of yarn combinations, colors, and fibers. Journey is a shawl to relax, enjoy the process and find joy. I hope you feel the same way I felt during that making: bliss.
Knitting: Cowl
From this whole collection, Luz is my favorite knit. I love everything about it, the squishy feeling, the stunning colour and this gorgeous stitch. I’m in love with this one. It brings light to any outfit, hence the name Luz.
Knitting: Cowl
This cowl is perfect for a nice afternoon with a bit of a cool breeze. It has a perfect weight and it goes with any outfit you need on different occasions.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
I absolutely loved the result of this textured mitts with the yarn and colour. I wasn’t sure it’d turn out the way I planned, but I’m actually way more satisfied with the way it turned out. It wears beautifully and it’s quite soft on the hands too.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
I believe it’s safe to say that I’m crazy about cables. To me, they add so much elegance to pretty much anything. this particular design made me fall in love even more with texture and cables together.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
I love everything about this hat. The texture, the large brim, the fact that it’s a slouchy hat and this yarn and colour completely got my heart.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This hat is worked in a reversed stockinette stitch, has a gorgeous diamond cable panel and ribbed brim. It has style and it wears beautifully.
Knitting: Pullover
This sweater features an intricate cable panel on the left side of it and has nice textured edges in seed stitch. Worked mostly in Stockinette St, this beauty is quick and easy to knit, and it’s all worked in the round.
Knitting: Pullover
Soul is part of Luz Collection, a boatneck sweater with a gorgeous leaf panel covering the whole front, with delicate garter stitch on the edges. A versatile sweater that you’ll want to wear simply every day, everywhere.
Knitting: Cowl
Eagle is a simple ribbed cowl. A simple seaming when it’s done et voilà! You got yourself an amazing accessory. I hope you enjoy knitting it as much as I did.
Knitting: Cowl
Pinecone is a cute buttoned simple garter stitch cowl. It’s worked flat and it knits up very quickly. Perfect for a beginner and it looks just adorable with the wooden buttons.
Knitting: Cowl
Black Tusc is a simple garter stitch cowl. It’s worked in the round and I just love the texture. It’s a perfect project for beginners who’d like
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Bloom is a cute fingerless mitts worked in the round with garter st. edges. It’s a perfect project for beginners and it looks amazing. I just love how warm they are.
Knitting: Cowl
Squamish is a absolutely stunning cowl. The Staghorn cable is one of my favorites. It’s worked in rows and sewn at the end. I promise you will love to knit this one!
Knitting: Cowl
Alpen is a gorgeous diagonal cowl which involves some yarn overs in the making. I just love how this one turned out. It’s definitely one of my favorites.
Knitting: Cowl
Raven is an infinity scarf worked in Moss Stitch. It’s seamless and very quick to knit. You can choose to work with one or 2 colors. Example shown with 2 light colors. Its texture is intricate and just gorgeous.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Garibaldi is a giant scarf and wrap. It’s a simple yet gorgeous accessory. It’s incredibly warm and it really catches people attention. It’s just the perfect knit!
Knitting: Pullover
Firefly is a great sweater to wear on a chilly day. With the intricate cable panel, you are sure to get a lot of compliments. I just love everything in this sweater.
Knitting: Legwarmers
Lullaby. One of my favourite things about babies is how their legs are cute, and chubby. It really makes me die a little inside! And what is cuter than their legs? Having them covered with these cute leg warmers. Absolutely amazing!
Knitting: Vest
Zig-Zag is a cute little vest that is sure to keep your little one warm and looking gorgeous. A simple lacy pattern on the front of the vest bring some charm to it. It’s a quick knit and it’s worked in the round.
Knitting: Blanket - Other
Cocoon came as a perfect project for me. I knew exactly how I wanted to design it. I have always wanted to knit a baby sac like that. And there it is, great, simple, with nice texture, and what I love the most, wood buttons! Can that get any better? Not for me! A cocoon is the coziest place of Earth, right? Sweet dreams little baby!
Knitting: Mittens
Peekaboo is like Braid’s little cousin! I wanted to design a different kind of mittens. I like it is square and it has the cables on it. I’m into reversed stockinette stitch and I’ve been addicted to cables lately. Baby mittens are always quick to knit and a very useful and beautiful gift for a baby shower or your own baby.
Knitting: Pullover
Braids is my first design for a sweater. It’s my baby so to say and it’s the pattern that started this whole book. It was designed for a special little man that came to my family, even though it’s an unisex sweater. It was inspired by Celtic designs, with the beautiful cables and the moss stitch on the edges. It made my top 5 list for sure! I t...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Caterpillar is a simple, yet gorgeous beanie. It’s a quick knit for a baby who is either coming or has just
Knitting: Baby Blanket
Lollipop is a colorful, textured and gorgeous blankie. It’s a very easy knit but intricate enough. The combination of colours is always uo to you. I particularly love this blanket, certainly one of my favourite pieces so far. I lve everything I do but sometimes you fall in love with one piece more than the other. It’s a quite simple knit but I ...
Knitting: Pullover
Palm is a simple yet gorgeous raglan sweater worked in the round and on a reversed stockinette stitch so the palm trees can pop up!
Knitting: Cowl
Jolly is a great pattern for beginners to work on their tension and learn to work in the round. It’s the perfect Christmas gift to tackle in just a few days. I hope you enjoy it! Cheers!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
September is the beginning of Fall and it was the first design that came to my mind. I absolutely adore the colourful season, it’s a nice transition to the hard-on-my-bones Winter. It prepares me for hibernation (I’m like a bear, I confess) and it brings me joy.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Stawamus was inspired by my new home, by the view of The Chief, this huge and powerful rock right across my window. It was thinking of Fall and smelling the pine trees outside that I came up with this design.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Autumn is perfect for a walk in the woods. It’s soft, warm, has a beautiful texture and charm too with wooden buttons.
Knitting: Cowl
Blue skies is a light cowl. Great first project for someone wanting to try some lace pattern. It’s quick and fun to knit. I truly hope you enjoy and share your projects!
Knitting: Cowl
This pattern is super fun to knit, specially because it knits so fast. A couple of hours and you are done, depending on your speed and availability to just sit and knit! Lovely texture with the bamboo stitch, awesome look!
Knitting: Cowl
This pattern is super easy and yet gorgeous. Perfect for beginners who want to learn how to work in the round and need to practice tension. It builds up quite quickly and it can be worked as a last minute gift.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Waffle is a urban slouchy hat, inspired by the streets of Vancouver, BC, the city I spent 7 years of my life and which I absolutely adore. I have fallen in love with this busy and extremely cool city in 2003 when I can to experience Canada and learn english. I couldn’t bare to be far from here. A hat during the cold winter days is essencial for...
Knitting: Cowl
This is a really easy and yet gorgeous cowl. It has a nice look to it and it kinda falls nicelly too. Amazing!!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This is a great pattern and a super cute hat. The texture of seed stitch gives a funky look and it’s beautiful too!
Knitting: Cowl
This is an amazing and yet simple pattern I came up with because I’m extremelly cold all the time and no scarf or cowl would really help me stay warm. So after finishing making my giant needles, I decided to make a super super chunky cowl.