I’m feeling so “spring-y” this week! (I guess it helps that it is 75 degrees with a little humidity in the Deep South today.) I get the urge at this time of year to cast off the heavy woolens and lighten up a little in my knitting. To help you get started on the road to spring, I’d like to offer a little discount on some of my favorite springtime knits.
Marion Tee
A youthful, modern shape and a bright spring yarn characterize the Marion Tee. With a lilting, slightly swingy silhouette and delicate inset lace panels that are graduated in length, Marion makes a great go-to pop top for everything from jeans to shorts to casual skirts.
It is sleeveless with sweet picot edging and features a wide bateau neck. Upper and lower edges end in a crisp picot hem that provides a little structure for the A-line shape. Worked in soft and silky Bamboo Pop, every lacy stitch is defined while the overall effect remains cool and breezy. Marion is worked from the bottom up and makes for a quick and easy knit with enough interest to delight the knitter.
Maizie Pullover
Maizie is a sweet, simple lightweight sweater designed to be knit in easy wearing linen. Worked seamlessly from the lacy yoke down, Maizie features a rolled edge with twisted ribbing. A wide picture neckline and 3/4 length sleeves complete this hip summer sweater.
Linen yarn is so crisp and cool in the hand and creates garments that are dry and comfortable to wear while providing excellent drape. The boho paisley-inspired lace motif is a pleasure to knit in linen. Its stiffness imparts a very rustic and natural quality to the openwork stitches yet creates superb drape through the fields of flat stockinette. And it gets softer each time it is laundered, taking on a brushed, suede-like quality with age.
Maypole Shawl
The Maypole Shawl is an easy, semi-circular shawl that begins with a gentle stockinette body. Increases worked every other right side row at 8 points across the shawl produce an almost half-moon shape that is deep and snugly at the center and gently tapered at the points.
Evenly spaced increases create very pretty directional shaping lines that put me in mind of a spider’s web or the spokes of a wheel. The lace border in a whimsical lace pattern of big polka dots floating in mesh is knitted continuously, pretty to look at and fun to knit. To finish, an exuberant loop-the-loop edging of I-cord creates a clever scallop.
Juniper Pullover
A modern twist on traditional seamless yoke provides a sassy backdrop for some fun details in this feminine sweater. Juniper is a great transitional knit and what a fun and easy way to get the most from stripes!
While the lightest shade frames the face, multiple shades in kicky stripes curve upward around the yoke, creating a long, slow gradient that grows darker as it reaches the lacy hem. Its swingy, flared silhouette begins with an open neckline. Three-quarter length sleeves are worked downward from the yoke and are also edged in sweet-as-pie cone and fir lace.
Starting today, March 13 and running through next Friday, March 20, take 40% off these pretty spring knits. Just hop on over to my Ravelry shop, pop your favorite patterns into your cart and enter coupon code SPRINGFLING at checkout.
I hope you’ll enjoy early spring knitting! See you next time.
Love,
Cheryl
