An IYC community promotion series.
Hello Everyone and welcome back to the IYC blog!!
After a very successful mysterious MAL, we are here with out next series with some lovely featured designers from our amazing community of crafts.
All along the month of August, India yarn circle is giving an opportunity to knit and crochet designers to feature a design on our blog.
Each week we are going to promote an Indian Designer and one of their famous patterns with all the details about their journey and love for crafts, to the detail of the design and thought process.
This week we kick off this series with a lovely designer and artist – Kavitha Raman.
Kavitha and her family moved to Northern California from India in 2015. She had just then decided to become a SAHM. She had worked as a Wireless Communications Engineer before that and knitting and crochet were her hobbies. While raising her two kids in a new place, she found that designing was a good way to intersect her fiber hobbies and math skills. She started self-publishing around 2016 as CraftDoodling Designs and contiues to explore fibers and techniques in her work. She loves reading, sketching and long walks.
You can find her on instagram at @craftdoodling
She also shares her thoughts and process in the world of crafts on her substack page HERE.
Today we are going showcase Kavitha’s gorgeous design Nasha 2.0.
Nasha 2.0 is a kite-shaped fingering weight shawl that captures the sweet vibrations and a sense of renewal that is associated with spring. The sideways construction in bias lets the little flower lace motifs fall about gracefully when the shawl is draped.
PATTERN FEATURES
– Nasha 2.0 is designed to use 2 skeins of fingering weight yarn.
– The body of the shawl is worked in garter, mesh, and flower lace stripe stitch patterns.
– The pattern incorporates 2-stitch i-cord edging and an i-cord bind-off.
– A row tracker (tracks WS rows only) is provided as a separate pdf.
– Written as well as charted instructions are provided for the
flower lace pattern.
CONSTRUCTION
The construction begins at one tip with just a few cast-on stitches and is increased on both sides of a center spine until the depth of the shawl is reached. After this, the fabric is continued in bias, by increasing on one side of the spine and decreasing on the other, resulting in a kite shape.
PROJECT DETAILS
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Length (along the longest edge): 69” / 173 cm.
Depth : 23”/ 58 cm.
YARN USED IN SAMPLE
2 skeins of Madelinetosh Tosh Sock Fingering, 100% Superwash Merino Wool.
395 yards / 361 m per 100g / 3.5 oz in Weighted Blanket colorway.
YARN REQUIREMENTS
786 yards / 719 m of fingering weight yarn.
NEEDLES USED
4 mm / US 6 circular needles, minimum length 24”/ 60 cm.
GAUGE
20 sts and 46 rows = 4”/ 10 cm in garter stitch, blocked.
NOTIONS
1 locking stitch marker, tapestry needle.
Optional: 1 (additional) locking stitch marker.
TECHNIQUES USED
Garter, eyelets, yarn over, double yarn over, k2tog, k3tog, ssk, sk2p (Marker movement for Sk2p), I-cord edging, I-cord bindoff.
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