Maya Levitt Designs is now on Love Knitting

You can now find Luminous and Limerick on Love Knitting. The simple free bonnet pattern I designed a few years ago is also available. 

  
I am hoping to work on adding new patterns to both my Ravelry and Love Knitting store over the next few months. I currently have two shawl patterns (one about to go into testing), a beanie and two children’s pixie hats waiting to be written up.

But alas I am not very fast at knitting or do not have enough free time to fit it in.

But if you are ever interested in testing, please let me know. I am always looking for new people to try my patterns so I can iron out all the kinks.

The current project that need to be tested is called The Garden Gate Stole, a  parrellogram shaped wrap with a cable border.  

My knit design story.

Hello again,

I am terrible at blogging. But I am going to try to get it up and running again. There are few changes floating around, I have know changed the name of this blog to Maya Levitt Designs.

This is the name under which my Ravelry Store operates. I am hoping to be organised enough to open a Love Knitting one soon. After a few starts and stops I have finally found what I think is my little niche design wise. And it all starts with a set of shawl patterns on special. I don’t know about you but I can’t resist a special. I have numerous patterns in my Ravelry Library which I will most likely never knit, or knit only once due to being unable to resist a special (I am working on this). But back to the story. The sale was for a designer raising money for her mum.

So I bought one to try. It was called Mercury in Retrograde. Then I found the perfect skein. A wonderful green called Sprouting Greens by Meraki Studio in a merino/silk blend. And my love of shawls began.

But being who I am, I can’t help but play with patterns and lace once I learnt how to create the basic triangular shape. So I placed around and knit, frogged, knit again, frogged until I had a lace pattern I liked. And then I managed to snaffle one of Gradient’s Spring Rainbow skeins. (Amazing yarn). And off we went. I finished it and was amazed at how pretty it was.

And then I found was sent a private message on Instagram. I love Instagram for the craft and knitting community it has. Gradient had liked my design so much she wanted me to write up the pattern and have it associated with her colour way Spring Rainbow. I wrote it up. after testing it was released onto Ravelry. I’m still amazed at the feedback i received for a pattern I designed on a whim.

I won’t say it was easy, as the testing process took a lot of work. But here was my first lace shawl I designed.

And more were to come. I have another about to be released, another being written up and another waiting for me to finish the sample. But that is another story for another day.

The Luminous Shawl Pattern us available on Ravelry at Luminous Pattern.

Until next time.