We're here to help you stitch sustainability into every aspect of your making.
With our carefully curated selection of non-superwash, plastic-free yarns and notions, we have everything you need to get started on your next project - and the one after that.
Here's to a wardrobe of knits we love and want to wear for years to come!
We're here to help you stitch sustainability into every aspect of your making.
With our carefully curated selection of non-superwash, plastic-free yarns and notions, we have everything you need to get started on your next project - and the one after that.
Here's to a wardrobe of knits we love and want to wear for years to come!
The Alluvium Shawl was inspired by the idea of the seashore as the place where two worlds meet. It uses brioche increases and decreases to mirror the crashing ocean waves, then has the branched delta in brioche on a two-colour garter stitch background.
It's generous size and asymmetrical triangular shape make Alluvium to an extra-comfy and super wearable shawl.
Jenn Lampen
Walcot Yarns Opus
This listing is for the single PDF pattern. You'll get an email with a download link immediately after purchase.
This pattern is available in Making Stories Magazine Issue 11, Seashore.
BC Garn's Semilla Melange is a wonderful organic allrounder yarn. It's 100% wool, and woollen-spun, which makes it lofty and warm at the same time.
Semilla Melange is GOTS certified, which ensures the highest organic standards when it comes to how the fiber is grown, washed, spun, and dyed. The fleeces come from mulesing-free farms in South America, the spinning and dyeing is done in Turkey. Like all our yarns, it's non-superwash and plastic-free.
Semilla Melange is also a wonderful companion to our favorite color-changing yarn Zauberwolle and the delightfully fluffy Bérénice!
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
• Width: 165 cm / 65”
• Depth: 73 cm / 28.75”
YARN
Walcot Yarns Opus (70% Argentinian Merino, 30% baby alpaca; 350 metres / 384 yards per 100 g)
700 metres / 770 yards each of MC and CC
Sample shown is knit in colourways Splashed White (MC) and Cove (CC).
NEEDLES
3.75 mm / US 5 circular needle with a cable length of at least 80 cm / 32” (or needle size to obtain gauge)
GAUGE
25 sts x 47 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (worked flat, in two-colour garter stitch, after blocking)
24 sts x 25 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (worked flat, in charted pattern, after blocking)
27 sts x 37 rows = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4” (worked flat, in stockinette stitch, after blocking)
When knitting brioche, one row is worked in MC, then the same row worked again in CC, and are counted together as one row.
NOTIONS
• Blocking tools (blocking mats)
• Darning needle
• Stitch markers
SKILLS & TECHNIQUES
• Long-Tail Cast-On
• Stretchy Bind-Off
• Picking up stitches
• Brioche
• Brioche increases and decreases
• Double brioche
• Two colour garter stitch
CONTRIBUTORS
• Model: Francesca Margaux
• Photography: Melinda Dela Costa
• Tech Editing: Jessica Schwab & Jen Hurley
• Graphic Design: Camille Romano
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