Tradewind Knitwear Designs

Shawls and Scarves

Fishtail Scarf by Lucy Neatby (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A truly holey scarf, with a slender section to wrap cozily around your neck. The best part: the holes are made without the need to cast on or bind off, and the scarf requires no finishing. Perfect summer knitting! Size: 60", adjustable Yarn: 100g Fingering / Light sport. Pictured in Kauni EQ. Techniques: Cable cast-on, Scallop decreases, Yarnover increases and lots of lovely holes. Skill Level: Intermediate Pattern price: $6.00 Cdn

Spindrift Scarf by Lucy (#474) (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A most spectacular and fast way of spreading your yarn $$$ or creating an intriguing fabric in jig time! (It incorporates more air into your knitting.) This scarf may be worked either widthwise or lengthwise according to taste: the two fabrics look remarkably different. Yarn: Any weight soft yarn; suits a hand-painted yarn such as Cat's Pajamas very well. Techniques: Scallop decreases, modified conventional bind-off. Level: Intermediate Pattern: $6.00 cdn, available as a .PDF (the GREEN option) or regular mailed pattern. No shipping charges on the PDF.

Spindrift Capelet by Lucy Neatby (#476) (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A sensual, one-piece, sideways-knit shoulder warmer, fabulous for day or evening wear. The holes are made as in the Spindrift Scarf. Minimal finishing required. Size: Adult S-L Yarn: Fingering/Sport 600 - 1000m Techniques: Varying size scallop holes, picots, short rows Skill Level: Advanced Pattern price: $9.00 Cdn Kit: Small contains pattern and 2 skeins Cat's Pajamas (Main and Handpainted). Price: $79.00 Kit: Medium -Large contains pattern and 4 skeins Cat's Pajamas (2 each Main and HP). Price: $145.00 (a really nice deal!)

The Abracadabra Scarf (#472) A simple, yet most magical, arrangement of beads distinguishes this scarf: vertical bead stripes on one side and horizontal stripes on the other. Suits any smooth fingering weight yarn, best with solid or mottled solid colours. Size: width 3.5" upwards, length to suit available yarn. Yarn: Fingering. Allow approximately 1000 beads, size #6. Techniques: Beading between stitches, yarn-overs at beginning of rows, spliced yarn joins. Level: Determined Beginner/Intermediate Pattern: $6 Cdn

Sea Lettuce Scarf (#468)(Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A spiraling, frilly short-row extravaganza, suited to hand-painted and printed yarns. Perfect travel knitting. Knit width-wise; just keep on knitting until you run out of yarn. Size - width 20 or 32 sts. Length, entirely up to you and your yarn. Yarn: any weight. Techniques: Picot edges, unwrapped garter stitch short rows. Minimal finishing. Level: Beginner/Intermediate Pattern: $6 Cdn.

Promenade Scarf. (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) To wear for your stroll on deck after dinner with the captain: beautiful simple seed stitch scarves from Celestial hand-painted yarns. Two versions are given, one knitted straight, the other on the bias. Minimal finishing required. Fringes or beads may be added for extra allure. Size: 6" x 60". Size may be easily adjusted in either dimension. Yarn: Celestial Merino Hand-painted Fingering (pictured) 100g (320m / 350 yds) of any hand-painted colour.These scarves may also be worked in heavier yarns; use fewer sts and appropriately larger needles. Techniques: Seed stitch, beaded fringes. Level: Beginner or Intermediate. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn. Kit: $30.50 Cdn. Kit includes one skein (100g) Celestial Merino fingering and pattern. Beads not included. Choose from our hand-painted colours: Aquarius, Blue Vesuvius, Fiesta, Sugar Maple, Seashell, or Fiery Fuchsia.

Chain d'Amour Scarf (#764). Of course, you have all been putting sheepbends in your hawsers waiting for a decent knitted chain-mail pattern: here it is, the colourful Chain d'Amour Scarf. Ready for preliminary release only: this means the pattern is now available to the hardcore must-have-it-now-or-else knitters but has not yet finished its rigorous pre-release testing schedule! ( i.e. It is not yet ready for wholesale production.) For the lunatic fringe! An eye-catching, grafted I-cord creation. Size: width entirely up to you. Yarn: - Worsted or other! (Warning: barbed wire will wreck bamboo needles.) Techniques: I-cord, grafting, patience, eating chocolates without getting fingers sticky. Level: Intermediate or desperate for something to fill the time. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn.

"A Little of What You Fancy" Scarf (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A kind-to-the-brain slip-stitch scarf, knit sideways. It is just perfect for using fanciful (read: expensive) yarns most economically. This scarf features two elegant but different sides, one with a horizontal woven appearance, the other with vertical columns of colour. Only one yarn is used at a time, and details for the optional but tempting beaded fringes are given. Size: Adjustable. Yarn:Worsted weight in two colours: one plain, one very fancy. Techniques: Slip stitches and beaded fringes. Skill level: Easy. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn.

Doubly Delicious Scarves A collection of six entertaining designs for some very impressive scarves, beautifully patterned on both sides, remeniscent of fine old quilts. Scarf D is shown. Size: A variety of widths from 23 to 30 sts wide. Yarn: Techniques: Basic double-layer knitting, optional tubular cast-on and bind-off. Level: Intermediate/ advanced. Pattern (contains all 6): $9.00 Cdn. Kits: $45.00 Cdn. Choose Kit A or Kit D. Kit A: Pattern (contains all 6) plus 100% Celestial BFL dk: 110g Natural and 110g Hand-painted. Choose your colour from our selection. Kit D: Pattern (contains all 6) plus Black (or Natural) Celestial BFL Aran (125g), and 2 x 50g Noro.

Mirror, Mirror Scarf. (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) This is a delightful piece of knitting; the scarf is very easy to knit once you have familiarised yourself with the technique of double-knitting (a detailed description is included in the pattern). Larger-than-usual needles are used, allowing the yarn to go much further than expected; this makes it an ideal project for those odd balls of crazy yarn you just had to buy. WARNING: This pattern is addictive knitting: with the current explosion of exotic and fancy yarns, it is very difficult to stop after just one scarf! Yarn: You will need two yarns of very different texture, sport/DK weight or heavier. A small scarf can be made with 80+ m/yds of each yarn; for a longer scarf, allow more yarn. Suggested combinations: Noro Kureyon (50g=100m) and Salsa Colour (50g=90m), Furore (50g=82m) and Cometa (25g=50m), Noro Kureyon (50g=100m) and High Touch (50g=45m) Techniques: true double knitting. Level: intermediate with advanced options. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn

Faroese Flower Shawl. (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A graceful, shoulder-hugging Faroese-style shawl, knit in one piece from the neck down. Features floral lace stitches and an unusual petal trim at the bottom. Yarn: Fingering-weight soft wool, DK /sport yarns, fine mohair blends, alpaca. Techniques: - lace patterning, optional knitted-in edge beading Level: Intermediate Pattern: $12.00 Cdn Kit: $72 Cdn

The Emperor's New Scarf An unusual technique for incorporating fresh air in your knitting gives a scarf with sinuous fish tail/ tree root ends. Knit sideways, very easy knitting with some crochet chain finishing required. See also the Emperor's New Vest. . Yarn - ideal for DK /sport yarns with a little loft. The original pictured was worked with one skein of Kimmet Croft 60 /40% wool /angora. A little contrast yarn will be needed to highlight the holes! Techniques : Cast-off cast on, waste yarn openings (Both illustrated). Level: Beginner/intermediate. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn

Falling Leaves Scarf . (Available as a PDF from Patternfish) A sophisticated reversible scarf revealing an interlocking leaf pattern on one side with architectural ogees on the other. Pattern includes variations including adjustable width and Ascot styles. Adapts to fit the available quantity of yarn, no finishing required. May be worked as a quick and easy project with larger needles or a more detailed event when worked with more repeats in a fine yarn. Size: Any Yarn: Suitable for any weight of yarn, for maximum effect choose a light color, solid yarn or a subtle hand dyed yarn. Techniques: - Various incs and decs and yarnovers. Level: Beginner/intermediate. Pattern: $6.00 Cdn

Fir tree Shawl A spectacular cozy wrap, fir trees and sunsets. Easier than it looks. All rows are right-side facing, no ends to darn. Two colors per row. There are a mouth-watering 27 different hand-dyed shades in all. An excellent stranded knitting project for those new to this technique. Note: Kit shawl is one tree deeper than pictured. Size: 81" x 36" excl. fringes. Yarn: Shelridge wool, wool/cotton Techniques: Two colors per row knitting, ssk, k2t. Level: Advanced beginner / Intermediate Kit $107.95 Cdn

Maple Leaf Shawl A versatile lace pattern with Maple Leaf motifs, adaptable to many yarn weights from cobweb on up. Size may be tailored to suit the available yarn. Shapes: either square or zigzag-edged ( with a 3/4 version of either, an option ) ! Worked in the round from the center out, or the 3/4 version is worked back and forth to give a shoulder-hugging shawl. The pattern is both charted and written row by row. Little finishing needed, but requires blocking. Size: infinitely variable to suit yarn / time constraints Yarn: Cobweb weight yields a shawl; Aran weight yields an afghan Techniques: basic lace knitting, mitered corners Level: Intermediate / Experienced Pattern: $12.00 Cdn

Lotus Shawl An easy, dramatic, stash-eating shawl. Garter stitch with short rows molds this shawl to fit the wearer beautifully. Designed to be worked in two halves for perfect match and to eliminate the risk of running short of yarn. Intended to extract the maximum impact from small amounts of fantasy yarns. Suits many yarn weights, minimal finishing. Size: from neck warmer to full evening shawl. Yarn: ideal for brushed mohair for main, fantasy yarn for contrast. Techniques: Short rows, yarn overs at beginning of rows. Modified three-needle bind-off. Level: Advanced beginner Pattern: $9.00 Cdn

Radiant Shawl A tassel-trimmed garter-stitch shawl, shaped with short rows to give a radiating pattern. So as to use only as much yarn as you have available, it is worked from the points towards the center back on each side. The shawl features long ties with sexy tassels for easy wearing and falls to waist length. Size: Adult. Size may be easily adjusted by the yarn/needle combination chosen. Yarn: DK/sport or fine mohair blends and a small amount of sparkly yarn. Techniques: Short rows, modified three-needle bind-off, and tassels. Level: Intermediate Pattern: $9.00 Cdn

Ikat Garter Scarf An easy idea for extracting pleasing effects from a space-dyed yarn. Adapts to fit the available yarn, minimal finishing. An ideal gift project. Size: anything you wish Yarn: ideal for space-dyed yarn with color segments in excess of 6" Techniques: yarn-overs at beginning of rows, k2t. Level: Beginner Pattern: $6.00 Cdn

Poinsettia Shawl (Available as a PDF from Patternfish)) Based on traditional counterpane squares, this is an impressive and cloud-soft piece of knitting. Easier than it looks. Worked on 6mm / US 10 needles. This shawl has been exhibited in the Museum for Textiles, Toronto. It is assembled from four squares with a lace edging, all joined with a simple netting stitch. The pattern is charted and written row by row. Size: 1.24m sq. Yarn: mohair yarns; fine fuzzy yarn yields a light shawl; heavier weights yield an afghan Techniques: basic lace, textured sts, bobbles, incs and decs Level: Intermediate Pattern: $12.00 Cdn Kit: please enquire for yarn information.

Cloud Scarf A light, soft neck scarf. Lace patterned, with garter st diamonds up either side; matching garter triangles trim the ends to match. All worked as one piece, no joining up. ( Cashmere version pictured ) Size: length to suit available yarn. Yarn: adaptable to many weights. Techniques: basic lace knitting, short rows. Level: Intermediate Pattern $6.00 Cdn

Rainbow Scarf Kit Worked sideways in all the colors of the rainbow. It uses a slip stitch pattern giving two great and amazingly different sides. Completed with a rainbow of tassels. Soft and cozy. Size: 70" x 9" Yarn: Shelridge wool, wool/cotton, 8 colors Techniques: slip sts, one color per row Level: Advanced beginner Kit: $26.95 Cdn

Entrelac Scarf An ideal gift- size knitting project, this pattern makes the best use of a variegated yarn with a long color gradation. 2 x 50g hanks of Noro silk/mohair blend ( 50g = 80m) make a scarf measuring 28" x 8". Little finishing required. Size: dependent on gauge; may completed as the yarn runs low Yarn: adaptable to any weight - ideal for handspun or Noro Techniques: Entrelac Level: Intermediate Pattern: $6.00 Cdn

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