Annie’s Launches New Collection for Fall

Back in April the craft publisher Annie’s made its first foray into seasonal pattern collections with Summer Love, curated by lead designer Lena Skvagerson.

They’ve decided to do it again, with the Autumn Bliss collection launching today. You can see the lookbook just for knitting here. (I love that giant circular scarf in the picture above.)

The fall collection features more than 40 knit and crochet designs from some of the industry’s top designers and covers just about everything you’d want to knit and wear in the fall and beyond including ponchos, sweaters, cowls, hats and more.

“Through my own experience and personal sense of style, I gather inspiration from all that I see around me,” Skvagerson said in a news release. “I intuitively know what will attract a wide audience of people with a variety of tastes and aesthetics. I can see how a collection of pieces can fit into a woman’s wardrobe without being fussy or complicated, but rather clean and minimal. The designs I envision are timeless, just like my own sense of style.”

The idea of the collection is that the pieces be timeless and practical rather than trendy, so you can knit them and wear them for years to come.

I’m excited about this collection and am sure there are a few things in it I’ll really want to knit.

Anything catch your eye? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Annie’s Signature Collection.]

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Any time of year is a good time for stash busting, but if you can combine it with knitting a blanket that will keep you warm when it (finally!) gets cooler that’s even better. Let’s take a look at some fun patchwork blanket knitting patterns.

If you want to keep it super simple, you can just make blocks of garter stitch and sew them together, like the beginner’s patchwork baby blanket from Mini Baa Baa or the color block blanket from Make and Do Crew. Both projects are worked in strips and sew together, with the baby version calling for two strands of DK or light worsted weight yarn held together and the larger one using bulky yarn.

Add a little more texture with the mixed blocks of the cottage quilt throw from Mama in a Stitch. This one combines garter stitch and seed stitch and uses worsted weight yarn. She used a crochet join to make the chains on top of the blocks, but you can join them however you like. It calls for eight colors but you can use what you have, and there are three size options.

Get a real sampler style patchwork blanket with this design from Knit Sew Make. It calls for worsted weight yarn and has four size options. All of the patterns just use knit and purl stitches so this one is still pretty easy for beginners.

If you want a more complex colorwork project that will keep you entertained all season, try the Peace by Piece blanket pattern from Needle and Feather. This one is made up of two color colorwork blocks and calls for worsted weight yarn. You can choose to use just a few of the blocks and repeat them more often, or make multiples of the whole set.

The knitted patchwork recipe from Martine Ellis (free on Ravelry) uses mitered squares in fingering weight yarn, so it’s perfect for using up all your leftover sock yarn and mini skeins. This one is a tutorial more than a pattern so you can make your blanket as big as you like or keep going until you run out of yarn.

Susan B. Anderson’s 100 Squares blanket (find it on Ravelry) has a lot of mitered squares, too, but they’re arranged in fun ways and includes some quilt inspired designs as well. This one also is a bit of method more than pattern but it sure looks like a lot of fun for using all the leftovers.

Of course you can totally improvise a patchwork blanket using the yarn and stitches you like, but I hope these patterns inspire you to look at your leftover yarn in a new way.

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