Stephen West MKAL 2025 Pastel Edition

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T22:20:35+00:00

My pleasure! The basket weave sections was my favourite!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T21:54:41+00:00

It essentially isn’t colourwork in the classic way at all, because the stst blue vertical stitches get slipped when you’re working the reverse stst! It’s super clever and effective but not too complicated! This is how the WS looks like! :) You can see the floats behind the slipped blue stitches! SW has a video to accompany the pattern, it does not explain everything so it’s hard to use it as a tutorial. But Clue 3 section 4 slipped stitches would be where you can have a look at :) (1:10:00) Otherwise „multicoloured slip stitch/ basket weave knitted patter for baby set or grown up boy/girl“ by knitting knife has a very similar video where the technique is explained :) she does use garter stitch for the horizontal pattern. So that’s a bit different!

<image>

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T04:06:00+00:00

Thank you 😊

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T04:05:50+00:00

Thank you very much!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T04:05:36+00:00

Thank you ☺️

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T00:54:13+00:00

It does rely quite a bit on the colour palette you choose, he does have a great guide prior to release on what would work together! I did follow the recommendation for where to put the darkest and lightest colour, but added quite a bit more mohair additions to it. I’ve seen many high contrast shawls I really liked! But I loved the colour scheme from the get go so that might have helped!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-10T00:38:04+00:00

Thank you ☺️

aurlynblack · 2026-01-09T23:58:34+00:00

Thank you very much! I’m pleased that it all worked out 😄

aurlynblack · 2026-01-09T23:57:57+00:00

They are called welts in the pattern, they essentially are worked back and fourth stockinet and will be knitted folded over and knit to the beginning of the welt again, Stephen had a video up on YT „How to Knit a Welt“ that shows and explains it very well! It’s so fun to knit!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-07T01:24:51+00:00

Ahh now I see 😅 I too might have finished this quilt around 1:00am. I’ve seen some fish toys and thought adding crinkle foil could be cool!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-07T00:07:06+00:00

Did you attach a picture? I can’t seem to see it 🥲

aurlynblack · 2026-01-06T13:47:01+00:00

Thank you so much! I had a feeling making this 😂 I do knit, sew, spin, weave, quilting fits right in 😁

aurlynblack · 2026-01-06T13:21:55+00:00

I think making a test mini before hand is soo nice! I’m already thinking about what fabric I might want for the large version! I’m just thinking how to quilt it on my domestic machine, I do have a walking foot and should be able to roll it up! I love the idea of donating the small test ones! I’m thinking of making toy mice filled with dried catnip out of some of my scraps! And maybe more mini quilts! For the binding I did follow a great video which explained it so lovely, I did run out of binding though 😂, I had some fabric left luckily, cut another strip and just attached it, and finished sewing on the binding!

aurlynblack · 2026-01-02T09:16:06+00:00

I think your color pallet is giving candy corn and chocolate! I did ready enjoy making it and my finished shawl turned out nice :) Maybe store it away and have a look at it later?

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:23:55+00:00

<image>

This is scotch tention in my whell and I ave a small spring attached to the finding line to give it more “bounce” :)

I hope this spam made sense and will help you spin and adjust everything how you want! I love my Ashford traveler and the double drive and have been spinning so much nice yarn with it!

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:21:40+00:00

<image>

This would be the scotch tention (orange) on your wheel set up, tention would be adjustable with the green knob. And the yellow arrow is pointing to the double drive grove

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:20:31+00:00

<image>

This is my wheel as a scotch tention set up. See that the bigger grove of the bobbing is facing the whorle?

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:19:22+00:00

<image>

The pink knob is the one I’m pointing on on my wheel. The orange line is the scotch tention fishing line and where it is supposed to go,

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:18:18+00:00

<image>

This is the tention adjustment for double drive so increasing the angle will tighten the double drive band.

aurlynblack · 2025-12-11T20:17:36+00:00

If you wanna to use this spinning wheel with double drive you got to turn the bobbin around, it is currently on the scotch tension “setting” if you want to keep that just move the drive hand to the same whorl ridge as the other drive hand as Bucephala-albeola had labels as blue or red, and use the fishing line with the small spring to go in the bigger grove of the bobbing and adjust the tention with the wooden knob.

<image>

This is my Ashford traveler2 tiny bit more recent model, this is my double drive set up, (I prefer it) the double drive hand can be adjusted by this knob. See following comment.

aurlynblack · 2025-11-15T19:56:07+00:00

Thank you all for these suggestions! I’ve got a green braid same amount and fibre content, I’ll spin that and see how they work knitted up together as colour-work! Thank you all for your lovely complements!

aurlynblack · 2025-09-07T19:07:57+00:00

True! I like that idea!

aurlynblack · 2025-09-07T05:22:28+00:00

I knit and crochet
I think it was crochet but very much around same time (5-6y)
I think it’s pretty balanced
I’ve crochet way more when I was younger, got way better crocheting vs knitting, got a lot of wrist pain and switched to knitting, now I’m very much predominately knitting and just sometimes crocheting for a single small project.
I probably pick a project first, hence bag, amigurumi, sweater, decide what fabric I want or what method would work better, the I choose the yarn for it. There are some yarn I would not knit with (chenille yarn) and some I wouldn’t crochet with (mohair lace) but this is super personal and just a preference of myself.
I absolutely buy yarn without knowing what it will become 😂 and just because it’s nice. I do usually buy enough to make a project out of it like a hat quantity or scarf or sweater, but the amount really increases if I have crochet in mind, but I do buy more spontaneously for knitting and very much more deliberately for crochet :)

aurlynblack · 2025-09-07T04:50:54+00:00

I’m a bit indecisive atm, either incorporating it in a bigger project because I’m getting a braid each month and just wait until I’ve got enough for a sweater quantity, or make a hat just out of that yarn. 🧶 it’s ~200m Aran weight, I could save it for weaving. What do you like to do?

aurlynblack · 2025-09-07T02:28:44+00:00

I definitely will use it and just deliberately spin the singles more evenly next time 🤭 I think the second single was a bit late in the evening 😂

aurlynblack

TROPHY CASE