I’m so excited to introduce you to the Playing Dress Up shawl, which is released today on Lovecrafts.com and Ravelry.com. It is the first in a collection inspired by children’s playtime and came up during lockdown.
The thing with lockdown, for those of us with caring responsibilities, was that it meant we had a lot less time for ourselves. For me, knitting was a path through that. I needed my projects to be straightforward enough that I could pick them up and put them down, and could still knit while watching and even playing with my son – but still result in something beautiful.
And so the concept of the Playtime Collection was born. Projects inspired by play – and suitable to be worked on during play!
The Playing Dress Up shawl is inspired by the way children play with bits of household fabric and use them for dressing up and fort building, whether it’s a towel superhero cape, a sheet dress or… the only limit is their imaginations!
The photos I’ve shared are of both my project and those of my test knitters (my patterns are always tech edited and test knit!), and I loved them so much I wanted to show you the pattern in a variety of yarns. It is a crescent shaped shawl with bands of stocking stitch, eyelet mesh and a picot edging. It only needs a 100g skein of 4ply or fingering weight yarn and is a quick knit.
It’s available on Lovecrafts and Ravelry.
