New pattern – Kassiopi Scarf

I love knitting in cotton at this time of year. Florida is just way too sticky for working on wool projects, especially if you are trying to knit outside! Plus, I always feel the need for some new cotton knits for the end of summer. And have you noticed that the evenings are getting cooler? Even the hottest of days can feel slightly chilly when the sun dips below the horizon. Autumn is clearly just around the corner. 

So here are three cotton scarves to help bridge that transition – perfect for days down at the beach or meeting up with friends for an afternoon picnic in the park. 
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And perfect, too, if you are unable to wear wool. There used to be such poor options for non-wool yarn but things are much easier these days, with a wider range of options and on-the-dot fashion colours.

This is the Kassiopi Scarf and it features a wonderfully textured reversible pattern from our Reversible Knitting Stitches book. The stitch is called Seeded Chevron and is one of my favourite stitch patterns in the book.

Kassiopi is a lovely fishing village in the island of Corfu and indeed, these scarves are reminiscent of the scents and sounds of that beautiful part of the world – the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, lazy summer days and evening cocktails by the pool.... 

There are three scarves in the collection. The slim scarf has been worked in a lovely fresh lime-green colour using a Sportweight cotton/Modal yarn. This gives a lovely draping fabric for a long, slim-line scarf. The medium scarf, meanwhile, is in a delicate aqua shade and has been worked in a 100% cotton Aran/heavy worsted-weight yarn. This is so soft and cozy! I made this version a little shorter and love the way it drapes around your shoulders to keep away the evening chills.

Both of these feature deeply-incised chevrons interlaced along the length of the scarf to give a wonderfully dynamic design. ​

The third scarf uses the same 100% cotton yarn but this time in a gorgeous soft apricot colour. I absolutely love this shade. It's a colour that was featured strongly in a number of the fashion shows for Autumn 2020 and it's easy to understand why it has become so popular. It's not a colour I have worn much in the past, but I can see some fun shopping ahead for some new items to go with this.

This wide version has two repeats of the chevron design which gives a beautiful sense of balance, symmetry and calm. The result is a wide statement scarf with just the right degree of coverage for bare shoulders in a cool restaurant. 
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And of course, all the scarves are fully reversible which makes them easy to drape, wrap or tie in place.  

For more details about the Kassiopi Scarf, please click here. The pattern is available for immediate download from the website.

Also, to read more about our Reversible Knitting Stitches book, please click here. In addition to the Seeded Chevron pattern featured in the Kassiopi Scarf there are more than 250 other double-sided stitches to explore.

Until next time – Keep smiling and keep knitting!

Moira

Last Blogpost: In with the new, updating the old... Next Up: Room for one more... Our book: Reversible Knitting Stitches My Website: www.wyndlestrawdesigns.com Many thanks again to my husband Tim for his great photos! To see more of his work, please click here.

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In with the new, updating the old ...

A quick update on the new edition of our Reversible Knitting Stitches E-book! Thank you so much to everyone for your great comments and e-mails after my last blogpost announcing the new edition of the book. I am so pleased that everyone is as excited as we are to have more than 50 new reversible knitting stitches in the collection, so there will now over 250 stitches in total!

Anna and I have been on the look-out for exciting new reversible stitches since the start of the year as you can read here, and it's great that we have been able to add so many new examples to the book.  We never expected to get to such a grand total and hope you will enjoy these new additions. The photo above shows one of these, Granite Stitch, and I have really enjoyed working on some winter knits using this pattern.

Editing for the new edition is progressing at a pace and we have just completed another major task, which was to update every one of the stitch charts in the book! As you can imagine, that was quite a big job. However, there has been such an improvement in the software we use for drawing up stitch charts over the last few years, so we wanted to incorporate that into the E-book. 
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This is, of course, doubly important since tablet and phone resolution has improved markedly over the years, so we wanted to make sure that all the charts were really crisp and easy to read.

So all being well, we will be on target to release the new edition of the E-book in September. We will, of course, send this out as an update to everyone who already has the first edition so you can start using it as soon as it is ready. I’ll post more details here when we have some better idea of dates. 

To purchase a copy of the book, then please click here, and to see a gallery of example pages, then please click here.

Hoping everyone is keeping safe and healthy. I’ll be back soon with news of some cotton scarves I have been knitting!

Until next time – Happy Reversible Knitting!

Moira

Last Blogpost: It started with a placemat Next Up: New pattern – Kassiopi Scarf Our book: Reversible Knitting Stitches My Website: www.wyndlestrawdesigns.com Many thanks again to my husband Tim for his great photos! If you would like to see more of his work, then please click here.

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