Stephen West

The Brioshawl is a symmetrical design knit sideways with increases that shape the widest part in the center. You can easily customize the size for a one-skein wonder or large cozy shawl by saving 50% or more of your yarn for the decreases in the second half of the design. I'm wearing the large size knitted with 2 skeins of Walk Collection Cottage Merino in Lime Soda + 4 balls West Wool Glowhair in Pickle Juice. There's a small size too requiring just one skein of yarn! Enjoy 15% off the Brioshawl pattern with code BRIOSHAWL on my website (link in profile) and Ravelry. #Brioshawl

The Make It My Way Shawl lets you choose between two different stitch options in each of the ten sections, resulting in 100 possible combinations. You will discover textures like twisted ribbing, cables, smock stitch, brioche, and more! This was such an enjoyable design to knit with a balance of simple relaxing stitches and playful textures. Unleash your inner designer and follow along with the Knit Your Own Adventure style pattern. Which stitches are you choosing for your adventure? Download the Make It My Way Shawl through the link in my profile.

Embrace squishy reversible ribbing with this brioche shawl! I designed this pattern to work with any yarn weight. Take a look at your stash and pick a fingering, DK, or worsted weight yarn that's calling your name. To make your shawl extra soft and fluffy, hold your main yarn with one strand of lace weight mohair silk! The sideways construction allows you to customize the size by using 50% of your yarn for the increases and then use the remaining 50% for the decreases. Instructions guide you stitch by stitch to knit this pattern with any yarn weight and any size. Use code BRIOSHAWL to save 15% on this pattern on westknits.com and Ravelry. This code is valid until end of the day May 18th. #Brioshawl

The first design to kick off Westknits YAL: Knit Your Own Adventure is the Make It My Way Shawl! This is a spectacular adventure where you have the choice between two different stitch patterns for each section of the design. If you want a more simple relaxing section, there are lots of easy breezy stitches to choose from or if you want more technique, then choose the more intricate stitch pattern options. You can download the pattern and cast on the Make It My Way Shawl on westknits.com or Ravelry #MakeItMyWayShawl

This new sample of Cafe Knitting blends three shades of fingering weight wool together as you knit sideways. The asymmetrical shape features increases and decreases that gradually expand the large shawl shape. Slip stitches, garter stitch, and ribbing make this project beginner friendly and relaxing to knit for your next spring project. Grab the Drifting Tide kit from S&P to knit your own oceanic sample of Cafe Knitting (link in profile). #CafeKnitting

Cafe Knitting is getting a fresh new look in a gradient of oceanic blues. This sample is knit in three specially hand-dyed colors by @walkcollection on their Cottage Merino base. Kits for this beautiful blue sample go on sale today at 4PM Amsterdam time @stephen.and.penelope

I’ve read your comments. All of them. I hear the hurt and disappointment I caused, and I hear the gap between what I’ve said and what I’ve shown. I’m not going to respond to everything here, but I want you to know I’ve been doing real work, not just sitting with discomfort. I’ve been reflecting, reading, having accountability conversations, and working with people who have real expertise in this work to help me move forward responsibly. What comes next won’t be another statement. It will be something specific and visible, and I’ll be sharing that with you in the coming weeks. Not as a gesture. As something you can hold me to. Thank you to those who spoke honestly, whether you stayed or stepped away. I hear you, and I’ll still be here doing the work.

I’ve heard the call from people wanting me to clarify my position on the right wing knitter I allowed to interview me this past weekend. This man is vile. His posts and beliefs are outright lies and propaganda, and the harm he has caused people in our community makes me deeply ashamed. I didn’t know who he was when he approached me at my booth at TexStyle in Manchester. When he emailed me requesting an interview, he shared his YouTube channel and the Shauna Stitches social media, neither of which showed the deeply hateful content I have since found on his personal profiles. But that’s exactly the point, all it took was a basic search to find his bigoted posts, and particularly his harassment of women of color in our community. I should have done that minimum due diligence. I didn’t, and I am ashamed of the association I allowed as a result. This was irresponsible and I apologize for the harm it caused, especially to those who have been directly targeted by his behavior. I clearly haven’t been vocal enough about where I stand politically and socially. If I had been, this man would never have felt comfortable approaching me in the first place. Silence on these issues is not neutrality. It creates space for exactly this kind of assumption. Let me be clear. There is no place for racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia in our community. I also want to apologize sincerely to Malia, and to my staff at Westknits and Stephen & Penelope. I caused this. The stress and fallout this created for all of you was unfair, and I’m truly sorry for it. I spent this past weekend reading your messages, posts, and emails. I understand the serious weight of this mistake. As someone with influence in this community, I have a responsibility to be far more careful about who I appear with and what that communicates. I left the comments open, but I will not tolerate any hate speech. Please don’t defend me. Comments with blind support for me that minimize my actions may be deleted. I made this mistake. I own it fully and I’m truly sorry.

I wanted to zoom in on your delicate details of the Mohair Mobile Shawl border. We knit these mohair mesh sections with the main color cable in the final clue of the Glow Along and they deserve to shine in the spotlight! #MohairMobileShawl

Don't miss out, it's the last day to save 15% on the Topography Shawl. Traverse short row shaping and calming color changes to create these whimsical topographic waves. Use code TOPOGRAPHY on my website (link in profile) to get 15% off this pattern until end of the day today. #TopographyShawl

I wanted to give this test knit of the Mohair Mobile Shawl its own special moment. I'm in love with the bright yellow main color and how it contrasts and marls with the gray mohair shades. This shawl is a wonderful ray of sunshine! Thank you to the amazing @elsiepopmakes for test knitting this year's Glow Along!

These classic Aubergine Westknits x Re:Designed Project Bags are Brioche approved! These are project bags 39, 9, and 36. Pre-order these beloved Aubergine project organizers and needles cases in styles 9, 10, 14, 36, 39, and 61 at Stephen & Penelope (link in profile)!