After scrolling through a bajillion pages of the current fad for greige 10 mohairs held together plain sweaters, I have finally found a designer worth buying patterns from! If only they had this scale pattern on a sweater!
Ok. This is pretty neat. Makes me wish I knew how to knit.
Tragically, all the good tentacles are crocheted, not knit.
BTW, if anyone knows other Ravelry designers who give off similar vibes to Lavish Craft, I want their names! Or just your favorite designers in general as long as they aren’t PetiteKnit.
I’ve seen a lot of designs that are incidentally named after things from fantasy books, but the actual look of the piece wouldn’t tell you what it’s inspired by. I’m more interested in designers doing dragon scale designs or at least sweaters I can picture on a hobbit.
Fabel Knitwear has some pretty stuff, but I hear her gauge is weird af and her patterns are confusing. I have the Montmartre but haven’t made a serious attempt at it yet, so we’ll see what I think. I’m not finding the instructions bad, but I agree with all the nitpickers that her own knitting is that trendy airy bullshit where the needles are 5 sizes too big and you’re making up for it with hairy yarns. My sense is that she’s one of those designers whose shots of herself in samples are by far the best thing about the designs.
I’ve spotted a couple of things I want from Skeindeer Knits. Lots of classic looks there that I can’t easily get from a store.
Norah Gaughan‘s more whimsical designs, like this one and this one, might be up your alley. (She has a lot of really basic stuff too, including at least a couple in the vein of the trend you mentioned, but she’s also a bloody wizard with cables and other interesting design elements.)
Oh man! I had not realized those were by the same person! I’ve run across both separate times and found them intriguing.
You may like Dragon Lore? Or any of Alexandra Davidoff’s other dragon projects?
Her other knits are a range of “normal” to “fantasy-esque”, but I think they’re neat. :)
Heavener Scarf
Azul
Niiiice
Some of Nim Teasdale’s designs give off similar vibes!
She also has a lot of lacework in some of her shawl designs but all are very pretty.
I’ve made her Goldleaf and Corozona patterns and I’ve found them easy to follow.
May I introduce you to my knitting crush Tania Richter?
Her designs aren’t things a fantasy character would wear, necessarily, but *I* sure want to wear them as a lover of fantasy. (I haven’t sprung for any yet so I can’t speak to the pattern drafting functionality, but she seems to be popular which is a good sign.)
Ooh, I don’t think I’ve seen these yet.
I’m very excited about the recs you’re all giving me, especially the ones I’ve never seen.
When searching on ravelry, you can put a minus before a search term like so: -mohair. This will remove any patterns that identify as using mohair. This might make avoiding those kinds of patterns easier.
Here are some cool fantasy-ish pieces I’ve seen:
Olivia’s Cape by Amy Gunderson
The Seer by Ninja Chickens
Silversmith Hoodie by Meiju K-P
Dragon Scale Mitts by Colette Smith
Sekiryu Kimono Sweater by Tania Richter
Long Cardigan by Little Bunnyxx
Firebird by Inna M (a colorwork chart)
Tahesha the dragon (ess) by Ina Wendrock (cable chart)
Interesting. I didn’t realize Ravelry search respected - notation like that.
Ooh, I’ve spotted Olivia’s Cape before, and I do indeed love it. Nice list here!
do you like lace? Because I just discovered Sharon Winsauer
Imperial Dance of the Dragon & Phoenix
Running Free
The Zodiac
@emi–rose
If you look at the search filters when you use the check boxes for the advanced search, you can see not just the notation, but what terms it uses as the tags.
I like the stuff Lucy Hague is doing in replicating traditional carved Celtic knot patterns as cables:
Note from the designer: The written instructions for the cable pattern are now available to download for free from my blog!
This is the second design in Illuminated Knits, a series of patterns inspired by illuminated Celtic manuscripts, using beautiful shades of
And she has this sweater everyone recolors to be Arwen’s Evenstar
This is the fourth, and final, design in Illuminated Knits, a series of patterns inspired by illuminated Celtic manuscripts, using beautifu
