"Variations on a Theme" e-book

 "Variations on a Theme" e-book is now available on Ravelry and my blog.

The idea for “Variations on a Theme” e-book was born while I was working on another design. I was inspired by the slipped stitch pattern I was using and wondered how will it look in a shawl. However, I was not done exploring the pattern. I designed another shawl with a different construction that uses the same slipped stitch pattern and latter I added two more designs to the collection, two cowls.
This e-book includes 3 patterns:
1. “Caprice No. 24” shawl is seamless and knitted bottom-up.
Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices, and a famous work for solo violin.
The caprice has provided a rich seam of material for works by many composers. One of them is “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” by Sergei Rachmaninoff and it gave a name to the next pattern in the collection.
2.“Rapsodiya” (which means Rhapsody in Russian) shawl is seamless and knitted sideways.
Franz Liszt composed his The Grandes études de Paganini based on the compositions of Niccolò Paganini for violin. His composition gave a name to the next pattern.
3. “Grandes études” pattern is a set of two cowls knitted in a simple slipped stitch pattern. The slight tweak to the pattern gives an option of knitting two cowls that look completely different while using same slipped stitch technique.

Happy knitting,

Diana 

New Shawl design: "Caprice No.24"

This shawl has been knitted a few weeks back, but I had no time to take pictures, write a pattern or blog about it until this weekend.
I started knitting this shawl during the time I was sitting home with my son, who had terrible case of flue. I was knitting another project," Rhapsody in Grey" actually, while my son slept with very high fever. I had a feeling then, that I just do not want to knit anything grey. I wanted some color-therapy to lift up my mood. I just received this gorgeous Cashmere 4/14NM DK Weight  yarn from ColourMart that I wanted to try and idea of this shawl came together very quickly. I absolutely in love with this stitch pattern and this shawl :-))

This pattern is going to be a part of the e-book “Variations on a Theme”.
Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices, and a famous work for solo violin. The caprice has provided a rich seam of material for works by many composers.
Jascha Heifetz plays Paganini Caprice No. 24

The pattern is ready to be test knitted. Let me know through Ravelry mail if you are interested and can complete this test knit within 3 weeks. You will need a 4ply, sport, or DK weight yarn for this project.

You can find my project "Caprice No.24" on Ravelry here.

Happy knitting,

Diana