Rare Birds: Elegant, lightweight, graceful garments for your handmade wardrobe

Warm weather knits, made with yarns you’ll *actually want to wear* in warm weather. Everyday glamour in silhouettes you’ll shine in. And as always, the pattern experience that keeps knitters like you coming back for another project.

From Jen Parroccini
Among Petals

Gracious, abundant, intricate: this is a true lace knitter’s garment. In Camellia Fiber Co’s CFC Fingering Flax, Among Petals offer the delicacy  and perfection of a spray of blooms in a yarn that knitters won’t want to put down.

Among Petals is knit from the bottom-up, with seamless dropped shoulders and an elegant braided bind-off neckline.

Download the Among Petals schematic here.

Soft Walk

Airy and wearable, this little tank is designed for a raw silk. Raw silk feels and wears more like cotton, with a little gentle drape.

Soft Walk is part of the Classics collection, and features two lengths. We used Wonderland Yarns Summer Silk (a sport weight), and the pattern also includes a Your Gauge spreadsheet; knitters punch in their actual gauge and get a complete schematic. This garment is knitted with lots of support and tips inline, for knitters new to making clothes.

Download the Soft Walk schematic here.

From Elizabeth Margaret
Kanno's Resistance Tee

Knitters asked us for a lace-backed tee, and Kanno delivers. This easy-fit silhouette is worked up in La Bien Aimee’s Silk Tweed base. An incredibly light weight sport weight silk noil base which is loftier than most silks.

Kanno is knit seamlessly from the bottom up with dropped shoulders. This tee strikes the perfect balance of modesty and flirtation.

Download the Kanno's Resistance schematic here. 

Betty's Mystique Tank

A bottom-up seamless tank with easy to knit all-over texture which packs a punch. Featuring ribbed panels in the front and back that elegantly create the neck shaping of this piece.

Betty is knit in Sweet Georgia Flaxen Silk Fine, a fingering weight silk/linen yarn that feel incredibly soft but has a bit of structure. Betty’s Mystique offers both a tunic length and tank length option

Download the Betty's Mystique schematic here.