Bellini Bubbles is a triangular shawlette, knit on the bias from the point to the wide end. It features assigned pooling and bubbly eyelets.
Bellini Bubbles is knit with a single skein of fingering weight yarn that is dyed for assigned pooling. You can also extend the size with another skein of yarn, if you like a bigger shawl.
I knit mine with Yarn Snob’s Bellina colorway, which inspired this design’s name.
This pattern is available on Ravelry, link here, and also on Payhip, link here. Use coupon code BELLA for 15% off on either platform.
Thanks to tech editor Jen Lucas, test knitters Ann Berg, Carolyn Crisp, Alaina Foster, Sarah Gallegos, Ann Harting, Jacqueline Lydston, Lenore MacLeod, Ellen Peters, Jamie Peterson, Kristin Smith, Crystal W., and model Sharon Hsu.
Special thanks to Keith Leonard of Yarn Snob/Knits All Done for this beautiful yarn to design with!
I FINALLY sewed in my ends (there are just two, beginning and end) on Bellini Bubbles because I’m taking pictures with my sister tomorrow. Nothing like the power of a deadline! But do you see what made me gasp?
See the unsecured bent petal of that middle flower? I’m going to guess I dropped a stitch somewhere above it, because…see the two loose stitch columns above the unsecured petal? Clearly there’s a column of stitches missing above that unsecured petal. There’s no stitch missing from the flower above, so it happened somewhere between the two flowers.
I hooked up the column with a crochet hook: The loose pink loop was the first to get picked up on my hook. Then I hooked up the running thread *between* those two loose stitch columns. That takes up the slack that made those two stitch columns become loose when the in-between stitch dropped down, so it’s firming up the green stockinette area, as well as rescuing my loose loop.
To secure this, I put a piece of yarn through the last loop at the top of the column (right before the next flower), pulled it to the back of the work, and fastened it there. Whew! And now I have four ends sewn in, instead of the original two.
There’s a little gap between the first 2 petals of the next flower because now there’s a stitch column where there wasn’t one when that flower was made. That’s a small price to pay for securing my flower petal. All better.
Bellini Bubbles is nearly done with test knitting, and I am seeing some stunning colors. Assigned pooling is so much fun! I’m planning to publish this next week, May 21. Get your yarn ready!
In other news, Chickalong Day 6 finds me waiting for my wet blocking to dry. Stuffing and seaming up next! I have a forever bag of poly fiberfill from some project in the distant past, so I’m ready.
I thought I was done with assigned pooling for a while, but during my Starfall KAL with Yarn Snob Keith I fell in love with a colorway used by one of the participants.
Keith’s Orchid: Bellina
The colorway is Bellina, named after one of dyer Keith’s orchids. When I saw it, I had to have it. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.
When I asked Ann Berg to test knit Prosecco Pop in a smooth yarn, she used a pooling yarn instead of a slubby one. I loved the idea, but I wanted more pooling, and fewer eyelets. It took a few tries to figure out the proportions, and I even changed my mind after my sample was finished, but here’s the basic idea.
Working title: Bellini Bubbles
I was going to use a different assigned pooling stitch, but these star flowers are so perfect here. This was knit with one skein of fingering weight yarn, dyed for assigned pooling.
Star flowers, blocked
The pattern has been tech edited, and now I’m looking for a few test knitters. Is that you? Let me know!
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