Lynette Meek

Look up, waayyy up. Looking to the sky from the forest floor. Seeing the blue sky through the sunlight dappled leaves and branches was truly uplifting. The smell of damp earth and cedar boughs was heady. What a way to start the day.

It was a walk in a forest kind of day!
Looking up while walking at Morrell Sanctuary this morning.

#goodstart #beautifultrees #morrellsanctuary #lookup #photography #treesandsky #naturephotography

Brilliant purple pink hydrangea is surrounded by greenery. Up close the flower centers are browning and not looking perfect! But still perfectly beautiful.

The hydrangeas are aging beautifully!

Quickie 2 The Hydrangeas are from my new garden - they aging spectacularly! Note - I made a couple of changes the original blog post - stitch count is 364 at the end of the last row. I also suggested a different style of needle to make the first rounds work a little more easily. Here are the next two rounds. The body pattern should be ready by Wednesday.

Quickie 2

The Hydrangeas are from my new garden - they aging spectacularly! Note - I made a couple of changes the original blog post - stitch count is 364 at the end of the last row. I also suggested a different style of needle to make the first rounds work a little more easily. Here are the next…

A Quickie… A few months ago I was interviewed by Stitchmastery. Stitchmastery makes the knitting program that I use to create my charts! I was really stoked when this came out! Look at all those pretty lace patterns, all charts created by Stitchmastery. Interview series 51 – Lynette Meek – Stitchmastery Pattern is on Ravelry, High Summer KAL. I love working with striping yarns.

A Quickie…

A few months ago I was interviewed by Stitchmastery. Stitchmastery makes the knitting program that I use to create my charts! I was really stoked when this came out! Look at all those pretty lace patterns, all charts created by Stitchmastery. Interview series 51 – Lynette Meek –…

Its been a while… Its been a while... But I am still knitting... I've been busy. Selling my home of 30 years, downsizing, and downsizing some more. There is still a storage locker so there will be more downsizing to come. But I am still knitting. Borealis Mitts for a November Class. It has been a tumultuous couple of years, both personally and in the world at large.

Its been a while…

Its been a while... But I am still knitting... I've been busy. Selling my home of 30 years, downsizing, and downsizing some more. There is still a storage locker so there will be more downsizing to come. But I am still knitting. Borealis Mitts for a November Class. It has been a…

Not usually. It is more common that large yarn companies will pay the designer to design and then knit the paytern. They will supply the yarn and usually give the designer a set amount of time to produce the pattern and knit the sample. They then hold the right to use the pattern as they wish.

A tailors dummy is displaying a lacy little cowl, knit with a 100% buffalo down yarn and embellished with beads. The cowl drapes and folds beautifully around the neck. The yarn is a deep brown and beads are gold.

#showmwyourknits guest host @samantha-west.bsky.social has asked for #cowls this week.

This one is A Little Something Something, knit with a beautiful, soft fingering weight yarn and embellished with some ✨💖 sparkling beads.

#letissietdesigns #skyknits #embellishments #sparkly

Thank-you 🤗 and the pattern is up on Ravelry

Funnel Cowl with Bonus Mitts pattern by Lynette Meek This pattern is mostly written with a small chart for the textured section

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Well, I have been knitting for about 45 years, so I am faster than many. It probably took about 6 hours.

Thank-you for the kind words.

Wow! Thank-you again! I am lucky enough to be able to do what I love. Comments like yours mean a lot! 🤗🥰

The display form is showing a turquoise blue cowl. The bottom edge of the cowl has garter stitch and pivot details that moves into stockinette with a dropped st detail. Welting and a simple textured body make up the bulk of the cowl. It is finished with eyelets and I-cord.

#showmeyourknits guest host @samantha-west.bsky.social is looking for #cowls.

The Funnel Cowl is a quick knit in a DK weight yarn. Pick something soft and warm as it sits close to your skin. This one was knit with a merino/yak blend from my stash.

#letissierdesigns #skyknits

Thank-you 🤗🧶

A thick, warm cowl, double knit so that there are two versions. This is the "light side" where the background is lighter than the patterns. The colours are burgundy tones. The edges are created with openwork stitches.

Welcome to the dark side of the cowl. Beautiful in a different way.

#showmeyourknits guest host @samantha-west.bsky.social has asked for #cowls this week.

My latest and most favourite cowl, two for the price of one!

Fall Garden Double Knit Cowl
Knit with Ancient Arts Merino DK

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#letissierdesigns #doubleknit #colourwork

Raspberry cloche with two shades of grey stripes. The light grey stripes are beaded for a suble shimmer. The cheeks are highlighted by chevron shaping in the stripes.

The chevron points frame the face beautifully.

Vintage style in Raspberry and grey.

Shimmer Cloche is complete.

Knit with #cadhmerereborn by #gatheringyarns beads by #miyuki

Chevron striping points and beautiful drape + shimmer. I am so happy 😄

#letissierdesigns #vintagestyle #shimmercloche

It is true of most things we knit 🧶. A person brings them to life. Thank-you 🤗

6 feet square of knitty goodness! Purple lace center knit on the diagonal. Floral fair-isle frame. Purple and green Lace striping border. Pointy purple lace edging.

Beautiful young woman, her hair is up and she is wearing a large purple shawl. She is wearing it squared with the center square folded to make a shawl collar . The fair isle band is double sided so that the shawl is totally reversible.

Same young woman her hair is down and she is staying a forest. Rear view! You can see both sides of the fair isle band.

#showmeyourknits #purple

My favouritist colour!

Lizzie's Hap or the Roamin' Shawl

Knit with #katedavies #millarchytweed

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#letissierdesigns #thecolourpurple #shetlandlace #fairisleband #hapshawl

Close up of Striping hat band. It started with a beaded cast on and moved to 3 striping colours, burgundy, dark grey and med grey. The medium grey stripes are heavily beaded.

A cloche style hat band with chevron style points over the ears. The cast on was beaded Colours are burgundy, dark grey and grey. The grey stripes are beaded.

Progress.

Cloche style hat band is done. Now it is plain sailing to the crown.

Knitting with Gathering Yarns #cashmerereborn a lovely recycled 95% cashmere 5% other.

#letissierdesigns #knittingwithbeads #vintageinspired #stripes #hatknitting #designing

Thank-you 🤗

Look at all of those beautiful balloons! Thanks for sharing!

White 🤍 background with a circle of burgundy yarn highlighted with jet beads. A couple of markers can be seen as well! A string of yarn runs from the knitting to the ball of yarn.

Celebrating the small Victories in life!
I finished a 200 stitch beaded long tail cast on with 9 inches of yarn to spare!

#letissierdesigns #knittingwithbeads #knitsky #smallvictories

Very nice, purple is fabulous!

Me too! I am sure there will be a hiccup or two, but right now I found time to take a breath. 😀

Bright, wide stripes highlight this Summer Kerchief. The stripes move pink to cream to green to cream and back to pink. The edges are small repeating points knit at the same time as the Kerchief body.

Rolling cables - just off the needles. Soft grey curves roll up the textured hat.

Lions mane daisies against the fence. The bright yellows and greens contrast strongly against the weathered grey wood of the fence

Life has been extremely busy. I am downsizing my home and it has been sold and a new home bought, still in the same town. In two weeks we will be moving. Also working and knitting through it all. Taking a little time to touch base and say hello.

A close up photograph of a Trillium flower. The white flower pops against the green leafy background. Everything about the Trillium is in groups of threes, petals and leaves. Today it was raining so the leaves and petals are dotted with raindrops.

A small treed meadow, close to Nanaimo river. The ground is muddy in the path. Beside the path is bright green undergrowth that is dotted with a profusion of white flowers - curly lilies.

Brown earth and tree trunks dominate the foreground in this photo. The background is more about the deep bright green moss and the fresh green undergrowth. In front of the brown trunk are two white Fawn Lilies standing tall on slender stems.

Early Spring on Vancouver Island means Fawn Lilies in the wild places. These are often called Curly Lilies.

These were found at the Cassidy Canyon swim hole. A few Trilliums are starting as well!

#vancouverisland
#fawnlilies
#spring
#flowerphotography
#photography
#skyphoto
#letissierdesigns

A shaggy bear, with creamy, curly fur sits up straight. The bear has a well defined nose and his eyes are black and close set. His paws are a deep brown. He is wearing a beige and brown vest with a faux argyle pattern. The vest is v-necked and the arms and waist band are finished with a two by two corrugated ribbing in deep brown and turquoise. The front band is a deep brown, to match with his paws, and it closes with multi coloured buttons.

A Bear with creamy, curly fur is wearing a vest is holding a matching vest in a much larger size.

#showmeyourknits
#skyknits
#letissierdesigns
#babyknits

A special gift for a special Grandson. A handmade bear (not made by me) needed a handmade vest. My grandson got a matching vest.

Knit with Patagonia Organic Merino.

I think we will be waiting a while. Worth it though.

A wooden bowl sits beside me on the couch. The edges gleam in the light. The bowl was turned by a local crafter. It is broad and not too deep. The wood is oak from Buttertubs Marsh. It was harvested from a downed tree. The bowl holds my current project, one of them anyway. It will be a beautiful, brightly coloured fair-isle sweater, perfect for my new great niece. The are 5 colours in the sweater - all very bright - the 💙 turquoise background, 🩷 pink, 💜 purple, yellow 💛 and green! All of the colours are moving in patterned stripes around the sweater.

One of my current WIP's! A class teaching project that is doing double duty.
1.) a Fair-isle intensive class project - colour theory, steels and finishing.
2.) I have a new great niece that I think might need a pretty little sweater and bonnet this winter.

Knit with B.C. Garn Bio-Shetland.

So happy 😊 to read this. Thank-you 🤗🧶

Thank-you 🧶💕