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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.

get the nasha pattern here

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Community Activity, IYC

Mysterious Make Along – Prompt 1

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Week 1 – Prompt one.

Now that you have registered, are you ready to begin??

So here we are…. drum roll please….. with our very first prompt!! Are you excited??

Grab your hooks and needles and your yarn and get started!!!

Choose your project.

Decide what type of make you want to begin with – either a scarf or a shawl.

For a scarf keep the width of your project at around 8 to 10 inches

For a shawl keep the width between 12 to 15 inches.

Based on your project you can start/cast on with the desired number of stitches or chains.

Knitting Prompt 1 – Group A:

Work on any ONE of the following stitches as per your choice of project.

1. Garter stitch:
Garter stitch uses only one stitch – the basic knit stitch. You knit each and every stitch on every row (right side and wrong side), simply stopping to turn your work over when you’re ready to begin a row anew.

2. Double Moss stitch:
Cast on an even number of stitches
Row 1 and 2: *K1, P1; repeat from * to end of row
Row 3 and 4: *P1, K1; repeat from * to end of row
Repeat Rows 1-4 for Moss Stitch flat

3. Moss stitch / seed stitch:
Cast On an Odd Number of Stitches
Your knitting pattern ( * K1, P1 * K1 ) is repeated on every row.

4. Rib stitch 2*2:
Cast On: number of stitches divisible by 4.
Row 1 (RS): (k2, p2) till the end of the row.
Row 2 (WS): (k2, p2) till the end of the row.
Repeat these two rows.

Crochet Prompt 1 – Group A:

Work on any ONE of the following stitches as per your choice of project.

1. Moss Stitch:
Ch an even number of sts.
Row 1: Sc in 4th ch from the hook, *ch 1, sk 1 ch, sc in next ch, repeat from * across.
Row 2: Ch 2, turn. Sc in the next ch-1 sp, *ch 1, sk 1 sc, sc in next ch-1 sp, repeat from * across.
Repeat row 2.

2. Extended Single crochet:
Insert your hook, YO and pull up a loop, YO and pull through one loop, YO and pull through remaining two loops

3. Herringbone hdc:
To make the HHDC stitch:

Yarn over, insert hook into next stitch and pull up a loop (3 loops on hook)
Pull first loop straight through the second (similar to a slip stitch)
Yarn over, pull through two remaining loops on hook.

In our first prompt, we have given multiple options for you to choose from. You can use any one stitch to work your first part. Now, work according to this prompt until we reveal our second prompt.

Reminder: be consistent with 4-5cm of knitting/crochet daily. By the end of week, you would have easily completed 20 -25 cm of your project!!

So you will enjoy the fun of revealing the second prompt.

Lets get started and All the best!

IYC

ABOUT US – IndiaYarnCircle.

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India Yarn Circle is a voluntary group of makers, who have come together to create a community of people for yarn crafts. Our vision is to build a community of makers who interact, share, learn and evolve. Our ambition is to keep the craft alive, encourage people to take up all yarn crafts with ease.

Our Mission

Nuture Passion for all Yarn Crafts and Crafters !

Objective of India Yarn Circle

India Yarn Circle, has a vision to bring all makers from different facets of life closer building a strong community which laughs, cries, parties and cheers for each other. A place where makers support one another, interact, share experiences , learn and evolve. Creating this open bond and passion for yarn crafts is what builds valuable relationship and gives us a deeper sense of belonging.

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The IYC Team

We are a team of 12, with experience in various yarn crafts and varied skills. We are a power packed team with different professional backgrounds, however the passion for yarn crafts bind us together. You can check out their instagram profiles in the links below.