Dryad Beanie: available now on Ravelry

The Dryad beanie is now live on Ravelry.

It is a simple 10ply/aran weight beanie that knits up fast. Simple cables add some detail while providing inspiration for the name. Slightly slouchy in design, the pattern provides options to add extra slouch as suits your style as well as decoration such as a pompom. Four sizes are provides, toddler, child, small adult and large adult. The smallest will fit a toddler with a head circumference of 43cm and the largest will fit a head circumference of 63. (I know this as I had my husband try it one).

It also seems that I have hit 500 followers on Instagram. So why not have a quick promotion?

Using the code IG500 you can get 50% off all my patterns. It will be live for a week.

Click here to see my pattern store.

Here is a picture of an adult wearing the hat. My eldest took it so it is slightly blurry but it shows the extra “slouch” option nicely.

Until next time.

Pattern Release: The Limerick Shawl

Today my new shawl pattern has been released. It is currently available on Ravelry and is called Limerick.
The idea behind this shawl was to create a very simple textured shawl that a beginner could knit. It uses stockinette, garter and drop stitches to create a rhythmic pattern. And this is where the name Limerick came from.
Today is also the 6th anniversary since I married my husband. So from today until September 12th you can get a 25% discount with the code 6YEARS.

I hope you have enjoyed your day and I hope you enjoy my patterns. I am off to spend the day with my husband and sons at the beach before a special dinner to celebrate.

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.