Shop Update

I have listed 2 new shawls in my Etsy shop this week - have a look!

The Rainbow Shawl 
Have to say I'm really proud of this one! The colors are great and I love the design. It's a semi-circular shawl hand knitted with pure wool yarn.

Purple Plum Shawl
This shawl is knitted with one of my favorite yarns - Zauberball. Love how the colors change creating a lovely striped pattern. This shawl is based on my own pattern as well.

A bit of brown and purple

I just finished these lovely shawls last week - had no time to publish new posts as I've been quite busy with custom orders. I'm working on 2 custom pieces - one for a bride and other one for a groom's mother. How cool is that?

The Purple One
I knitted it using one of my favourite fiber blends, 80/20 merino/alpaca, hand dyed in lovely lavender violet.
You can find it in my MadelinesWardrobe Etsy shop.

The Brown One

This one was knitted using very soft yarn, 70/30 merino/cashmere, in lovely chocolate brown shade. The design is my own. The shawl also available at MadelinesWardrobe shop

New shawl is added to my shop

Here it is! A new shawl just added to my Etsy shop. A large and amazingly soft shawl knitted sideways, with a ruffled edge. It was the first shawl I knitted using this method but I'm already in love with it - just have to think about a clever way to combine knitting sideways, short rows ruffle and more lace!

This shawl is available at MadelinesWardrobe Etsy Shop for $79

Custom ordered shawl is finished as well!

Yes, I know you've seen this design a million+ times, but I really love knitting it and my customers seem to like it a lot :-) This shawl was knitted for a lovely lady who contacted me via Etsy. I have to say I like it a lot! 

I've used all my merino snow white yarn to knit this shawl - time to order some more!*

* I know I said I'm not gonna order any more yarn in a month but I'd like to have the white one stored "just in case"

Remember the pink mohair shawl? It's finished

It took me ages to photograph this shawl! I love how soft and delicate it looks, will be great to wear with a dress. It was handknitted with extra fine mohair yarn, hand painted in shades of raspberry pink and whites.

I'll add it to my Etsy shop in a couple of hours.

Lime green shawl is officially finished and looks great!

It's one of my favorite patterns to work with and the lime green yarn makes it look really great. The shawl is huge, approx. 210cm wide and I'm really happy with the end result.

You can find it in my MadelinesWardrobe Etsy shop

Just finished: A lagoon blue triangular lace shawl

Just finished my latest shawl - beautiful blue triangular lacy shawl in 50/50 cashmere/merino yarn. I'm quite pleased with the final result. You can find it in my Etsy shop.

My 16th lacy shawl this year - pale green mohair rectangular stole

Just finished! My 16th shawl this year.... wow, that's a lot of shawls! This one was hand knitted by me using amazingly soft an airy kid mohair yarn in a very interesting, pale green/almost grey shade. I've used quite large needles (4.5mm) to get the airy look. I have to say this yarn is great - Twilleys of Stamford Wisper. Unfortunately, this yarn is discontinued but I was really lucky to find some on eBay. 

You can also check this post, where you can see the early stages of knitting this shawl.

The shawl is quite big, it measures 75x163 cm. It's available in my MadelinesWardrobe Etsy shop.

Work in progress: very lacy mohair rectangular shawl

Oh, I absolutely LOVE this mohair yarn! Knitting with it is a pure pleasure. The color is quite difficult to describe, it's something like pale mint green, slightly greyish.

I'm using quite large needles and very thin yarn so the lace shawl will look extremely airy and light, perfect for summer evenings.

The patterns is - as most of my shawls - my own. Still have to decide on the edging, though. I have a couple of ideas and will decide a bit later.

Long time no see.... a new custom wedding shawl

Long time no see! I was quite busy last couple of weeks - one of the reasons was this lovely new wedding shawl I knitted as a custom order from one of my Etsy customers. The design is my own and it's the same with one of my earlier shawls, Blue Lagoon one. This time, it was knitted with 2 strands of very fine merino lace yarn in pure white.

I'm thinking about knitting another shawl like this one, have to say I really like the pattern and it knits like a charm.

Wanna see what's drying on the floor?

A brand new shawl :-) This was a quick project, I had to take a break from the tiny lace stitches and decided to play a bit with DK yarn (this is my favorite yarn, Riot DK by King Cole Yarns). I used slightly larger needles than recommended so the shawl still looks lacy & delicate.

New shawl is drying

My new shawl is finished & blocked! Now I just have to wait for it to dry. I'm pretty happy with the end result 'cause I had some problems with the crocheted edging. The first time I made it, it was too tight and I couldn't block the shawl properly. Now, when I know the pattern by hard, you can expect more shawls finished with this edging :-)

Royal Burgundy hand-knitted stole with decorative edging

And my 12th finished project this year! WOOHOO! I had the chance to work with my favorite yarn again - this time hand-dyed in rich burgundy shade. I'll have to order more of this blend soon because I almost run out of it.

You can find it in my Madeline's Wardrobe Artfire shop and on Etsy

Blue Lagoon - a new lacy scarf

Ohh... I'm so happy with the end result of this project. I wasn't sure about the edging first, but after blocking it looks perfect. The design is my own, based on Estonian lace stitch patterns. You can find the pattern in my Ravelry Shop

The finished shawl you can find in my Etsy Shop

New emerald green lacy scarf/stole

And finally it's done & listed. Actually, it had been finished for about 4 weeks but I had technical problems with my camera. Now I got a new one and can start listing again.
This stole is knitted using my favorite yarn - 80/20 merino/angora blend. I hand dyed it in beautiful sapphire (or emerald) green color. The color is not perfectly solid, but it's the way I wanted it to be.

The stole is available both in my Etsy and Artfire shops - pick the one you like the most :-)

2 new shawls waiting for a good home

Finally finished & listed! Two brand new shawls from Madeline's Wardrobe.

The first one - white wedding lace shawl can be also used as a wedding veil, it will look gorgeous! The other one - pale pink delicate lacy scarf - will be also great for a wedding day (but not only!)

You can find them at MadelinesWardrobe Etsy Shop or MadelinesWardrobe ArtFire studio

NEW! Now you can buy the knitting pattern for the scarf

The pattern includes charts and written instructions for the body and the edging. The charts are enlarged on an A4 page, ready to be printed.

New lace scarf finally finished

Finally finished & listed! I have to say I'm pretty proud of this scarf - I love the combination of the lace leaf pattern and the simple border. I think they go well together.

It took me approx. 46h of knitting to finish this scarf! It all started from my favorite yarn - 80/20 merino/angora mix, which I hand dyed using shades called Reindeer Grey and Pale Peach (lovely names, aren't they?)

Here's the scarf drying on my wall

NEW! Now you can buy a pattern for this scarf/stole

Written instructions and charts provided both for the body and the edging.

Quick Shops update: 3 new shawls!

Finally available in my shops! My 3 new hand knitted shawls!

Olive Greens - hand knitted lace shawl

Plum purple lace shawl with leaf pattern

Ocean Deeps - hand knitted lace shawl in blue grey green and violet

Ocean Weaves Shawl

Today I want to present you one of my new shawls - its design is based on traditional Shetland shawls.

I used a beautiful yarn by King Cole called Riot DK - it's a single ply, double knitting yarn that comes in various colors - I'm absolutely in love with it, this is my 2nd shawl knitted with this yarn and definitely not the last one!

Work in progress - violet leaves shawl

Here's one of the projects I'm working on right now. Have to say I like it a lot!