Honey Bee Mine is a cozy three-color bandana cowl that features sweet honey bees flitting among the honeycombs. The cowl looks like a triangular shawl when worn, but it needs no fussing or pinning to remain stylishly in place.
Honey Bee Mine is worked in the round from the bottom up, so the bees are flying upwards. Multiple yarnovers over several rounds are dropped and scooped up to form the wings of the honey bees, and double yarnovers create bold eyelets for the honeycomb. The pattern uses 3 colors of fingering weight yarn. The edging can be knit in either Brioche Rib or 1×1 Ribbing. (I’m always sneaking in brioche!)
I designed this for Knit Picks using Hawthorne Fingering. I love this workhorse of a yarn! The pattern is available from Knit Picks too, as an individual pattern download, or as part of the Nature Walk Lace Patterns ebook.
Thanks to Sharon Hsu for modeling for me (top picture)!
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That is really adorable. I have a pattern for a bookmark using the same stitch; that designer scooped the long strands in such a way that the result looked like a heart.
I love the bees! 🐝❤️
I’d love to see where those YOs went!
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That’s really pretty, Michele !! 🙂
Thank you; I love it! This is the second iterati
Love the border!!!
Because it’s brioche? You know I love it! But I’m giving brioche-resisters a way out…
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So beautiful
That is stunning! I haven’t ventured into brioche yet so I’m not entering for the ebook, but as a new subscriber I just had to say how much I enjoy your posts. And your model Ms. Hsu always does a great job showcasing your creations.
Well, there are directions for a k1p1 ribbed edging rather than the brioche, so if you want to be
Nice use of the bees from Go Tell the Bees shawl. I love bees, so I’ll have to make one or two!
If I love a stitch or motif, I’ll use it several times to get the most bang for my buck! I’m
What a cool pattern with Bees! I would love to make the pattern. Glenda
I love the new pattern. I know the honey bee stitch from the class in Buffalo. I only have to decide whether I want the book or just the one pattern.
Well, if you want two patterns you may as well buy the who
Beautiful designs!
As an enthusiatic beekeeper and knitter, this beautiful design fills me with joy! I am tempted to drop everything and start knitting it immediately.
I love bees and brioche and honeycombs and all in one cowl is a winner! Super project, well done and beautiful!
Love this, saw it all knit in public event and have been waiting for the pattern to come out.
Bee-utiful! 😉