Designer Laura Nelkin is one busy lady!  In addition to designing wonderful beaded accessories (you can find them as pdfs here), creating two new patterns for our Valley Yarns (Selata and Gears) and releasing a new collection of patterns based on a single stitch, she’ll be teaching here at WEBS in November! Even with all of that on her plate, Laura was excited to take some time to highlight a few of her favorite patterns for us.

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Ennoble:

Ennoble is a rectangular lace scarf with pre-strung beads worked at the bottom to create an elaborate border. The pattern has both charts and written directions, and lots of helpful hints for working with beads.  My class [on November 5th] will focus on teaching you the skills you’ll need to make this scarf AND develop a love for knitting with beads!

(Laura will also be teaching Beading 101 on November 4th.)

Cayden:

Cayden is an over-sized vest meant to throw on over jeans and a t-shirt, your favorite dress, or whatever suits your mood.  Seamless and worked from the bottom up, decreases occur along the bobble edge all the way up to the neckline so that the front hem falls gracefully downwards.  I knit Cayden with Fibre Company Road to China Light, one of my favorite yarns because of it’s incredible hand and fluidity.

Iota Collection:

My latest project, the Iota Collection, is based on the Iota stitch which I developed last spring.  The patterns in this collection play with this stitch, both in the round and flat.  The cowl and scarf pattern is written for three different sizes of yarn, Fingering, DK and Bulky and plays with working the stitch both in the round (cowl) and flat (scarf).  The capelet and sweater are both seamless, worked top down, and are written for worsted weight yarn, like Valley Yarns Stockbridge, or Swans Island Worsted.

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We are excited to be carrying so many patterns by Nelkin Designs and can’t wait to have her in the store as a teacher in November!  Thanks, Laura, for giving us so many options to put on our must-knit list!