Introducing Lace Designer Mia Rinde, a Giveaway & Malabrigo Sale

Big "Thank you!" to everyone who entered the Mia Rinde Giveaway!

Drum roll please!  Our 3 winners are...

Seedstitch won Mimicry Mimosa PDF pattern and 1 skein of Malabrigo Lace
 
Jennifer Conway of the celebratinglightnessofbeing.blogspot.com blog won Pasque Flower PDF pattern 

and Handstitch of the handstitch.wordpress.com blog won Bring Me Flowers PDF pattern

Please email me at Sandrasingh@sandrasingh.com to claim your prize.
I'm excited to announce that the extraordinarily talented lace designer, Mia Rinde, has joined Sandrasingh.com! One of the things l love most about running this website is discovering beautiful, interesting patterns to introduce to you and the moment I saw Rinde's Mimicry Mimosa shawl I knew I found a winner! The pattern combines just enough lace with stockinette, a lovely drape with scalloped edges (I love scalloped edges on shawls & scarves) and its knit in the soft and lovely Malabrigo Lace, plus she included two versions, one with nupps and one without (I love patterns with options). I took a look at the rest of Rinde's work and was equally impressed and I'm sure you'll be too! 

Mia Rinde

 Meet Mia Rinde: Rinde knits and designs from her home in Stockholm, Sweden. Her inspirations come from traditional knitting around the world but also curiosity, on the verge of an obsession, of finding out how something will look. Her patterns are often charted and include schematics making them easy to follow. Mia’s practical side encourages flexibility for knitters, who can often vary the size and appearance of their projects through optional chart repetitions.

Rinde's patterns are usually charted and often include sizing options.  She loves Malabrigo yarn especially Sock, Lace and Silky Merino and many of her patterns are written for these yarns.  To welcome Rinde and to celebrate our mutual love for this special yarn all Malabrigo Yarn is 15% Off until Sept. 27th and this post will feature a Giveaway for Rinde's work.

There will be 3 Winners and the prizes are the Mimicry Mimosa PDF pattern and 1 skein of Malabrigo Lace, the Pasque Flower PDF pattern and the Bring Me Flowers PDF pattern.

Pasque Flower

Pasque Flower features a traditional Estonian lace motif used as an intricate border and ending with romantic ruffles, its knit in Malabrigo Lace.

Leaf by Leaf

Leaf by Leaf is a triangular shawl knit from the neck down, its also knit in Malabrigo Lace. The pattern consists of different sized leaves inspired by traditional Estonian knitting and lace doilies. 

Bring Me Flowers

Bound in a bouquet or climbing up a trellis, how do you like your flowers best?  In Bring Me Flowers the two are combined in a perfect blend of geometrical shapes and floral softness, knit in Malabirgo Sock.

Catching Butterflies

Rinde shares the story of her Catching Butterflies shawl..."I like to collect pretty things, but catching actual butterflies isn’t going about it my way.  I prefer to capture their shape and beauty using a Japanese butterfly lace, accentuated with a purled background and arranged to adorn a shawl."  Knit in Malabrigo Silky Merino.

Orchid Shawl

Triangular Orchid Shawl features patterning on the right side rows only, wrong side rows are purled, the pattern is charted and beads are optional.

Lavandula

Lavandula is also a traditional triangular lace shawl with patterning on the right side rows only, wrong side rows are purled.

Growing Flowers

Square shaped Growing Flowers is knit from the center out.  It’s the flowers that make it grow and it includes a border with even more flowers. The pattern includes both written and charted instructions for a shawl and blanket version.

Growing Flowers

Mimicry Mimosa

And triangular Mimicry Mimosa is knit with increases in the middle and along the edge leaf motifs in Malabirgo Lace. 

The 3 winners will be announced on Sept 28th. The patterns will be emailed to the winners as a PDFs.

Enter this Giveaway: The more ways you enter, the more chances you have to win. Make sure to leave a comment(s) under this blog post telling what you did to enter. And please make sure to leave your contact information.
1. Tell us which Mia Rinde pattern is your favorite and why.
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