Twisting Rivers Cowl is a fun collaboration between Anne Beady Designs and Freedom Stitch Co. We are a mother-daughter team with totally different tastes in yarn but with an equal love of color and fashion. Anne loves the small delicate stitches created with fingering weight yarn while Meghan loves the big thick pops of cozy color you get from ...

When winter cold blanketed New England, I found warmth and comfort in a warm cowl around my neck. That was the inspiration for my Towne Square Cowl. It’s a two color slipped stitch design that drapes nicely over your shoulders and tapers off at the neck to stay in place. It’s the perfect winter accessory under your coat for a warm outing after ...

Jeweled Amethyst was designed using yarn dyed by Jilly & Kiddles, in her Monks Hood colorway on the Smart Sock base. The beauty of the yarn is brought out in the lovely all over lace pattern, and the shawl is edged with a knit as you go i-cord and an i-cord bind off. It is easily memorized and will look gorgeous in solid, tonal or lightly v...

The Friendship is Forever Hat is a complementary pattern designed to go with my Friendship is Forever Cowl (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/friendship-is-fo...). It is sized from Child to Adult XL, with directions given for both a slouchy style and a beanie style. It can take on a single color classic look up to multiple colors for a f...

Jumping Waves is a light and airy fingering weight shawl bordered by a row of cables that remind me of my childhood days jumping over the ocean waves. This is a fun shawl worked in stockinette stitch with an easy border knit as you go, adding interest in each row. Knit side to side, you can work this shawl as long or short as you desire, by adj...

The color of the sunset reflecting off the grains of sand after a long day on the beach is the color of my newest shawl. Sunset on the Sand is another of my single skein designs. It is easy to memorize and fun to knit. This shawl is knit in the asymmetrical style, but you end up with a more symmetrical shape, making it easy to wear. Notes are i...

We all have that special friend who you have shared so many special times with. I have one and my Friendship is Forever cowl is because of her. She wanted me to design the perfect cowl for her to take on an upcoming trip so, with this friend in mind, I embedded the cowl with a diamond motif, as diamonds are a girl’s “best friend.” This is anoth...

Coral Tides is my first shawl pattern. It is an asymmetrical shawl knit side to side, starting at one point with 2 stitches and ending at the other end. It is the perfect shawl for that random skein of fingering yarn that is too pretty for socks. This shawl will show off all the colors of that crazy dyed yarn or give a solid or tonal yarn an el...