Locks and Keys wear it like a shawl

Locks and Keys

Lindsay Lewchuk2025 New Releases, Announcements, How-to Videos, Luxury in Lace (2025 theme), Scarves, Shawls, Stitch in Focus Leave a Comment

Locks and Keys takes the delicate structure of the Lamprocapnos spectabilis and transforms it into an elegant shawlette. A base structure of brioche blossoms into Stockinette Lace combined with Brioche Lace to mimic leaves and flowers. Like all delicate structures, this one is full of knitting adventures and tricks to provide for stability while creating a seamless design. Customize Locks and Keys into a smaller kerchief or larger full-sized shawl.  The tech edited and test knit intermediate level design is fully written with the lace written and charted.  Several how-to videos are available as well. $8.50 Finished Measurements:Shawlette – 60”/ 152.5cm across by 5”/ 12.5cm deep Materials:1 skein Five Wise Owls fingering weight yarn shown in color Firestarter Single skein …

Brioche Step Shawl full length

Brioche Step Shawl

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, How-to Videos, KNIT knitworthy 'n intriguing techniques (2024 theme), Patterns, Shawls Leave a Comment

Dip your knitting needles into brioche shaping with the Brioche Step Shawl.  This fun extra-long crescent-shaped shawl is perfect for snuggling.  Keep an eye out for three special features.  There are no brioche purls!  With the clever use of brioche knits and slip stitches, you’ll get the look of purls without any of the work.  Despite the colorful results, this design is actually a single-colored brioche shawl – no slipping back for that contrasting color!  Finally, don’t fear the crescent mustache – a secret design element eliminates it from the start! The tech edited and test knit easy level pattern is fully written.  The pattern includes links for 4 video tutorials – brioche wrap and turn, brkfyof, kfyobyof, and a …

Turning Points Book Cover

Turning Points

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, How-to Videos, Patterns, Shawls

About Turning Points: Travel through the Blue Ridge Parkway from Grandfather Mountain to Ravens Rock Overlook, NC, with photos and stories of Lindsay’s knitting and wildlife adventures from the comfort of your knitting perch.  The exciting “short row swing shawls” introduce new shawl shapes as well as providing some fun stitching on familiar shapes.  You will delight in the wrap and turn short rows while working illusion knitting, lace, stockinette, stripes, and garter.  Each design is uniquely textured to excite, relax, engage, contemplate, and energize your stitches.  Turning Points includes five art-piece shawls to cover wardrobe needs from causal to elegant. Introducing: 1. Sunrise Summit – an illusion knit in an unusual, but wearable, shape that transforms from a shawl …

Curious Climber shawl

Curious Climber

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, Patterns, Shawls

Smooth cliff top surfaces contrast with craggy rock faces texturally in Curious Climber.  Garter and Stockinette interplay with short row swings in a fun and relaxing way to create a fully reversible shawl.  Designed as an introduction to the swing shawl concept and with a working title of “Basic Swing,” relax as you create this cozy comfortable shawl.  The easy (not beginner) level design provides a chance to practice short row swings with familiar stitches on a familiar shape, with a few little surprises to level up your I-cords. The tech edited and test knit pattern is fully written with several how-to videos and a schematic. Find Curious Climber exclusively in Turning Points. Available both in print and digitally! Finished …

Panoramic Spire Capelet

Panoramic Spire

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, Patterns, Shawls

Play with color to enhance the visual effects short row swings create in Panoramic Spire.  Either end sports a spire effect while a long smooth vista travels through the middle.  Dubbed “Swing Theory” – work solid stripes through the middle section and alternating thick / thin stripes on either edge, where the wonderment of short rows does all the hard work.  The half-donut shape comprises easy Stockinette knitting with a touch of lace to provide a little knitting interest. The tech edited and test knit intermediate level pattern is fully written with a how-to video for transitioning from the I-cord to the body and schematic. Find Panoramic Spire exclusively in Turning Points. Available both in print and digitally! Sizes: Small …

Valley View shawl

Valley View

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, Patterns, Shawls

Mountain peaks and gullies kiss the sky’s edge in Valley View.  Mimicking the hollowed-out valleys, the gentle curves of Valley View are created with a bevy of short rows.  Outline the horizon with your favorite accent color.  Short rows transform a sharp geometric shape into a softly curving shawl.  Internal short rows create an undulating line to highlight the accent color.  Like geology hidden in the landscape of time, the short rows will only be known to the crafter and those with a very keen eye.  The tech edited and test knit intermediate level pattern is fully written with a how-to video, schematic, and diagram. Find Valley View exclusively in Turning Points. Available both in print and digitally! Finished Measurements: …

Peacock Ridge Shawlette

Peacock Ridge

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, Patterns, Shawls Leave a Comment

Spy the eye of the Peacock in the lace while an abstract fan of feathers appears in the swings between lace and Stockinette Stitch sections.  Beautiful central quadruple decreases create a lovely lace patterning offsetting structural stockinette in Peacock Ridge.  Let your stitches take flight while you show off your favorite yarns and beads.  Parade your skill with short rows with this unexpected asymmetrical construction.  Construction begins with a short row top edge cast on and transitions into long wingspan length rows.  Learn a few new skills as you sashay across the base with mini short row bind offs. The tech edited and test knit intermediate level pattern is written with the lace both written and charted.  The pattern also …

Sunrise Summit

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Announcements, Patterns, Shawls

Dawn breaks on Sunrise Summit creating streams of light through your stitches.  Transitioning between single and double stranding methods, hold your shawl up to the rising sun to reveal the beauty of the swinging short row design.  Illusion knitting takes a sweeping approach tracing the shape of this shawl / poncho design turning this unique shawl shape into an optical delight.  Optional beads on the I-cord tie add another layer of illumination.  It’s not just the light that plays with Sunrise Summit – the shape shifting design transforms this shawl into a fun poncho with the addition of an I-cord tie.  The tech edited and test knit advanced level pattern is fully written with a how-to video, schematic, and tying …

Turning Points

Turning Points Preview

Lindsay LewchukAnnouncements, Pattern Related, Shawls Leave a Comment

Over the next week or so Turning Points will be available on different sites. The “Turning Points” book page will be updated as each new platform becomes available. In the meantime, check out the attached PDF for a preview of what’s to come! To view full pages in your browser, click the box with up and down arrows (beside the % +).

Downtown Burnsville pattern cover

Downtown Burnsville

Lindsay Lewchuk2024 New Releases, Cowls, KNIT knitworthy 'n intriguing techniques (2024 theme), Men, Patterns, Shawls Leave a Comment

Downtown Burnsville features Downtown Cowl and Burnsville Shawl.  My favorite LYS is along the way to the dentist, so we always leave a bit early and stop by to see Wendy at Yummi Yarns.  An old-fashioned building with brick walls and worn hardwood floors is enlivened with brilliantly colored yarn, hand made art pieces, and local mountain crafts.  Knitting or crocheting at the social center is Wendy, the owner of Yummi Yarns.  The last time I was in, a rare find of cotton and linen caught my eye among all the gorgeously dyed wool.  In honor of my friend Wendy and as a farewell to my favorite NC LYS, I designed Downtown Cowl and Burnsville Shawl with 3 skeins from …