Debra Kinsey Knits
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Pathlines Wrap features garter stitch with elements of stocking stitch, cables, shadow knitting and short rows to create a textural and colourful fabric. The perfect project for your Advent calendar.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
This fun blanket consists of garter stitch sections with easy short row shaping to create sloping lines. The stocking stitch stripes have a simple stranded colourwork detail.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
This reversible blanket is completely worked in one piece, beginning with the bottom border. The blanket comes in three sizes and two style options: a single colour blanket or blanket with contrast borders using the intarsia technique.
Knitting: Pullover
This easy-to-wear sweater is knitted in pieces, from the bottom edge up, in stocking stitch with patterned bands, short or long raglan sleeves and cutaway side pockets.
Knitting: Cardigan
The Frankie Jacket is an easy-to-wear dropped-shoulder jacket for children with a high V neck and great pockets for stashing away treasures.
Knitting: Pullover
The Linden Sweater for children is an easy-to-wear dropped shoulder garment with classic design elements.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Iola Blanket has a modular construction. The use of perpendicular and intersecting stripes creates a striking visual effect.
Knitting: Cardigan
Frankie is a dropped-shoulder jacket for baby with little details designed to create a perfect finish.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Quadrille Blanket is the perfect project to add an individual touch to. It is made up of four matching wedges with helpful design details for a lovely finish. The use of stripes creates a dynamic statement.
Knitting: Cowl, Scarf
The Amelie Scarf and Cowl is an engaging one ball project. The stitch pattern creates an interesting fabric on both sides of the knitting, making the scarf or cowl completely reversible.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Finnian Socks are wonderfully cosy, easy to knit and wear socks with a simple rib detail and a pop of colour.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Halle Socks feature a simple stranded colourwork pattern on the leg and down the top of the foot to the toe. The underside of the sock is contrasted in stranded colourwork stripes.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
Bella is an easy-to-knit baby blanket with a simple texture. The blanket is completely worked in one piece, mainly in garter stitch with small inset stocking stitch squares. It can be worked in stripes or a single colour.
Knitting: Pullover
The Linden dropped shoulder sweater features lots of little details and makes a gorgeous baby gift knit.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Noughts + Crosses Blanket is a wonderfully textured blanket with a unique construction and quirky design detail. It is an eye-catching gift knit for that special baby.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Latticework Blanket is a classic textured blanket for baby knitted entirely in one piece.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
Small Blocks is a colourful fun blanket for baby. The centre features small blocks of purl fabric set into a stocking stitch background. Some of these blocks are worked in the main colour and some are worked using intarsia in one of four contrasting colours.
Knitting: Coffee / Tea Pot
This quirky tea cosy will dress your teapot up and keep your tea toasty warm. It can be made in two or three colours, or even more. It is a great stash buster and makes a perfect gift.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Fingerless Gloves
These accessories are reversible. The garter rib edging is worked with WS facing and the stocking st fabric is worked with the knit side facing. When the edging is folded back, the RS of the garter rib edging and the knit side of the stocking st fabric will be facing.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Cowl
This well-proportioned beanie features an unusual style of shaping that allows the colourwork pattern to extend to the crown. The method of shaping creates faux seams that can be worn at the sides or front and back facing.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These classic socks, made in cosy Inca Spun Heritage sock yarn, are a wardrobe staple. The cuff, heel and toe are worked in a contrast colour to add a bit of spark but they could also be worked in a single colour if preferred.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These classic unisex socks are a great basic for the wardrobe. The three stripes, positioned just above the ankle, will be revealed when the wearer sits or cuffs their pants.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These sweet socks combine cables and lace in a lovely linen and silk yarn. The muted shades of this yarn combined with the silk content give the socks a luxurious sheen.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This striking beanie is worked in a graphic stranded colourwork pattern that forms a linking pattern of circle motifs.
Knitting: Pullover
This sweet sweater has feature buttons along the front raglan edges for ease of dressing and contrasting garter textured bands.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Scarf
This fun beanie and scarf explore a couple of different colourwork techniques in light and airy Laja alpaca and merino yarn.
Knitting: Pullover
This classic-style top-down sweater can be worn as a separate piece or layered over a long-sleeved top or shirt.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The distinctive patterning of this unisex beanie features textured cables in the brim that follow up into colourwork ‘cables’ for the remainder of the beanie.
Knitting: Pullover
In striking three-colour stripes, this easy-to-wear sweater is knitted in two separate pieces – back and front – beginning with a K2, P2 ribbed band, and increasing out for short sleeves.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Jewel Blanket uses the marvellous technique of shadow knitting to create an illusion of blocks of colours when in fact it is worked in 2-row stripes with offset garter ridges.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Cowl
This fun cowl and beanie can be made as colourful as you wish. Both pieces are knitted in rounds and feature stranded colourwork.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
This classic baby blanket is knitted in one piece (except for the side borders). It is a handy size to use in the pram, crib or car. The garter stitch border pattern is textured with a feature knit stitch and the mitred corners provide a neat finish. The centre section pattern is a simple broken rib.
Knitting: Pullover
Triplet is a relaxed-fit short-sleeved sweater. There are three style options: two versions of a three-colour fade with colourwork bands worked at the colour change, using stranded colourwork or slip stitch colourwork, or a solid colour version with contrasting bands. Three-ways!
Knitting: Ankle Sock
These cute socks with minimal finishing are worked in one piece, without seams, beginning with the K1, P1 cuff. The stocking stitch instep can be worked in a single colour or in one-row stripes.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This versatile beanie can be made in either Fingering or 4 ply yarn and DK or 8 ply yarn. There are two sets of instructions included to cover both yarn weights. The simple two-row stripe pattern consists of alternating off-set garter ridges to create an optical illusion - shadow knitting.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl was designed for the NSW Knitters’ Guild FibreFest Event held in Singleton NSW on 26 & 27 Oct 2019. It is mostly worked in blocks of garter stitch interspersed with interesting eyelets and openings to create a semi-sculptural effect. To create a unique piece, all blocks except for the circle edging can be repositioned or omitted ...
Knitting: Animal Toy
This super-cuddly sloth is cleverly knitted in one piece (except for the claws), working in a combination of rows and rounds, beginning with the head.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The simple mosaic pattern creates an interesting geometric design that can be worked in two or more colours. The pattern is worked by slipping stitches over 8 rows of pattern with 6 rows of stocking stitch in between. It is knitted from the bottom edge up, with a K2, P2 rib band. There are two style options: a two-colour beanie or a three-colou...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This beanie is worked in stranded colourwork as a spiral. A multiple of 8 stitches minus one moves the contrasting line of stitches to the left and a multiple of 8 sts plus one moves it to the right. It is knitted from the bottom edge up, with a K2, P2 rib band.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Dotty Socks are a fun sock knitted in three colours. They are worked in the round on double-pointed needles from the cuff down with a heel flap construction. Simple stranded colourwork in striped bands is featured on the leg and toe. The toe is closed using Kitchener stitch (grafting).
Knitting: Scarf
This scarf knitted in cosy superfine merino is a great accessory for music lovers. It is worked sideways in one piece. The piano keys section is worked first, using stranded colourwork. A garter ridge forms a fold line and the back of the scarf is worked in stocking stitch to the width of the piano keys section.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This graphic colourwork beanie is a lot of fun to make. The stranded colourwork pattern is worked over a 6-stitch, 20-round repeat. There are three style options for knitting this beanie. In the four-colour beanie, the background is worked in three colours. In the three-colour beanie, the background is worked in two colours. In the two-colour b...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Hello sock knitters. These socks are a lot of fun. You can knit them in 2 colours or you can make the contrast colour different for each sock of a pair. Or reverse the colours used on each foot: the main colour on the left sock becomes the contrast colour on the right sock.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
The Eamon Blanket uses a couple of easy knitting techniques to create a beautifully finished blanket. The blanket is knitted in eight strips and joined using mattress stitch. The strips consist of eight blocks of colour with an off-centre textured pattern adding an extra element of interest.
Knitting: Pullover
Striae is a textured raglan sweater. The simple textured pattern is a 12-stitch, 16-row repeat. Within these 16 rows, the bands of textured pattern or striae are worked over 6 rows and the remaining 10 rows of the repeat are stocking stitch. The easy rib detail on the side edges follows up from the lower band, into the raglan armhole shaping an...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks have a moving eyelet pattern set in panels of stocking stitch separated by purl stitches. The pattern extends around the leg and continues down the front of the foot. When the sock is worn, the lace detail stretches out over the leg and foot; it is very eye-catching and pretty.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This beanie requires intermediate knitting skills. The stranded colourwork pattern is worked over a 6-stitch, 14-round repeat. There are two colour options for knitting this beanie. In the three colour beanie, the stranded colourwork is on a background of 8-round stripes in two alternating colours. In the two colour beanie, the stranded colourw...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks are great for using up scraps in your stash. You can use different colours for the cuffs, heels and toes or for the colourwork leg. The versions shown in the pattern are worked in two colours, with the main colour used for the cuff and heel and the contrast colour used for the toe.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This sweet baby beanie comes in four baby sizes and uses mosaic colourwork to create the graphic effect.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The graphic stitch used in this beanie is a variation of Barbara Walker’s simulated basketweave pattern. The mosaic pattern is worked by a sequence of slipped stitches while working 2-round stripes, using one colour at a time. It is knitted from the bottom edge up. The mosaic pattern is a 10-stitch, 16-round repeat. It can be worked from the ch...
Knitting: Pullover
The graphic stitch used in this sweater is a nod to Barbara Walker’s simulated basketweave pattern. However, instead of using a mosaic (slip-stitch) pattern, it has been reworked into stranded colourwork. The all-over graphic pattern is a symmetrical 10-stitch, 10-row repeat and is easy to memorise.