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

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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 …