Sooza's Knitting Stuff

Snow, snow and look! More snow. Still perfect weather for spinning, knitting and keeping warm next to the heater. Here's some yarn that got finished last week. I'm calling it 'Sunkissed' because someone on Ravelry commented it reminded her of well planted garden with all the flowers in bloom on a bright sunny day in summer with big fluffy clouds in a clear blue sky.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in 2005 I published a knitting pattern on my blog that was inspired by a pattern called 'Birch' designed by Sharon Miller. But instead of being worked from the top down with 300 and some stitches to be cast on my shawl was worked bottom up. No more miscounting while trying to get slippery Mohair yarn to behave. No more running out of yarn. Just knitting until the shawl is as large as you want it to be. Since then the pattern became known as 'Bottom-up Birch'.

The instructions were very basic though and the charts not very pretty. Since people are still asking for clarifications and according to the Ravelry database the pattern is still quite popular it was high time for a revision of the pattern. I managed to make up the pattern in a prettier form with nicer charts and hopefully better explanations. On top of that the pattern now contains also an asymmetrical version that's knitted sideways. The new format also called for a new name - Birch Leaf Shawl.



If you're on Ravelry you can download the file for free and add it to your Ravelry library. As an alternative you can also download the pattern directly from this server.

• Download 'Birch Leaf Shawl' pattern from Ravelry


• Direct download of 'Birch Leaf Shawl' pattern