Tag: Scheepjes Design Collective
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 7, Joining Motifs
For the Festival of Lights CAL for Week 7 I am finally going to talk about Joining (and Blocking). On here and in the video tutorial and this week I go into a lot of detail about how I like to block the motifs and the joining method, including some tips for troubleshooting if/when you…
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Chasing Starlight Wrap
May I introduce you to my newest pattern, “Chasing a Starlight”, this pattern is a motif-based crochet pattern with a unique construction technique involving a join-as-you-go method. Once you have learned the technique, I think that it is a simple yet satisfying pattern to make. The pattern is for a wrap, but the motifs could…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 6, Extended Diamond Motifs
Happy CAL day! This is the last week of motifs and there are only 8 of them to make. We will finish up the motifs by making the Extended Diamonds. This motif may look familiar to you because they are the Popcorn diamond motif with an extra few rows added to them. These extra-large diamonds…
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Scheepjes Unity “Jessica” Colorway and Pattern Sneak Peak
I have something very exciting to tell you! Scheepjes has renamed the former “Our Tribe” yarn to “Unity”. At the same time, some of the colorways are being renamed for some of the newer Scheepjes Designer Collective members, our wonderful facebook moderators, and featured community members. So now I have a Scheepjes Unity color way…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 5, Diamond Motifs
This week we are making all the Diamonds. This motif is a much plainer diamond that provides some breathing space or a harmonious pause to all the texture of the square and popcorn diamond. So once again we will be focusing on shape this week and using the same techniques to get those nice sharp…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 4, Popcorn Diamond Motifs
It’s CAL day again! This week we are making all the Popcorn Diamonds. This motif is about the texture and the shape. We will be using a lot of the same tricks to get nice pointy corners that were used in weeks 1&2 with the triangles, and it is also full of back post stitches…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 3, Square Motifs
It’s CAL day again! This week we are making all the squares. The triangle motif was all about the shape, the square motif is all about the texture. It is full of back post stitches and popcorn stitches. Take a moment to read the tips on gauge this week as we now need to make…
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Main Information Page: Scheepjes Festival Of Lights CAL
Welcome to my main page for the Scheepjes CAL 2024: Festival of Lights! Here you will find lots of important information and helpful tips and tricks. Don’t worry if this is a lot of information at once, I will also be posting helpful tips and progress pictures for each part of the CAL along with…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 1 & 2, Triangles Motifs
Hooray! It’s CAL Day!!! Welcome to the official start of the Scheepjes Festival of lights CAL. For the first part of the CAL we will be working on the triangle motifs. There are a lot of them, so this section is going to span over two weeks. The written PDF of the pattern can be…
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Delta Scarf Knitting Pattern
Can I admit that I have been sitting on this pattern for a while and have finally worked up the courage to publish it? This is my first knit pattern, I had originally set out to design something simple in knit to try out the new, at the time, Arcadia Yarn. However, as I kept…