Manta Rays

$3.99

Is this the first ever original knit design for a graceful Manta Ray…and from a water color?

Beach Spirit Knits© by BelleAire Press include original knit designs that help you go to the beach without actually leaving your home.

Caribbean color palettes that glow with the vibrant blues, oranges, and greens of southern seas. Original designs that reflect the laidback atmosphere, fiesty spirit — and witty humor — of life and relaxation near a shore.

An original Manta Ray-focused Beach Spirit Knit© design by BelleAire Press.
The complete design chart features a adaptation of an original water color by William Tracy McCarns done in the center in stockinette stitch. A garter stitch border surrounds the Manta Ray design on four sides.

The Manta Ray Brag Rag© seems to be emerging from the design panel in this view. The design chart provides a very useful tool and directions.

Body of the “MANTA RAY” Brag Rag© is approximately 8 inches wide by 9 inches long. The letters are knitted in a panel of stockinette stitch.  Knit with 100% Cotton yarn (114 yards/ 60 grams), Worsted Weight Cotton Yarn.

All Spirit Knit designs and patterns:

  • Are easy to knit.
  • Include complete knitting directions–two-color or one color–provided.
  • Offer yarn and materials suggestions.
  • Provide optional color swatches.
  • Provide color-coded knitting chart.
  • Include hyperlinks to additional resources.
  • Arrive as downloadable e-PDFs for convenience in viewing and/or printing hard copy.
  • Your ePDF is scaled to optimize viewing of contents (especially the design chart) on iPADs and similar display devices.

 

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Manta Rays Background

Manta Rays by William Tracy McCarns. All rights reserved.

Beach Spirit Knits by BelleAire Press include original knit designs that help you go to the beach without actually leaving your home.
Caribbean color palettes that glow with the vibrant blues, oranges, and greens of southern seas. Original designs that reflect the laidback atmosphere, fiesty spirit — and witty humor — of life and relaxation near a shore.
Manta rays are graceful, bat-shaped, members of the super order of cartilaginous fishes commonly known as rays. Rays are the largest group of cartilaginous fishes that are distinguished by flattened bodies, enlarged pectoral fins (wings) that are fused to the head, and gill slits placed on their ventral surfaces.
This original design was based on a watercolor by William Tracy McCarns, a high school student in Chesterfield, Virginia.