Check out the Pantone Colors for Spring ’15

I know, I know, we just started talking about knitting for fall and winter and now the “experts” want us to start thinking about spring? So it is in fashion, and with New York Fashion Week in full swing, Pantone has released its color report for spring 2015.

There are a lot of cool blues and greens in the collection, along with a cool pink called Strawberry Ice (if I had to guess, I’d say this one might be the color of the year). Tangerine is back as the big bright color of the season, while Toasted Almond, Glacier Gray and a rich red-brown called Marsala round out the palette with neutrals.

Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said the colors are meant to be relaxing and encouraging people to unplug as they might when seeing these semi-tropical colors in nature. Sounds good to me.

I love gray as a neutral (and actually used a lot of it in my upcoming book, so trendy am I) and I’m a big fan of all those cool blues, too.

See anything you like that you might add to knitting or other craft projects? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Pantone.]

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If you’re looking for a sweater knitting pattern that uses up some of your stash and allows you to make just the sweater you want, the Marlina Rib by Shay Johson might be just the thing.

It’s worked with two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight gauge, so you can use the same two yarns throughout or change one or both regularly for an even more colorful look.

The pattern has options to make it either a crewneck or a henley style with buttons, tapered or relaxed sleeves, and a straight hemline or a split hem with buttons (which sounds so cute if you do the henley with split hem and match the buttons on both parts).

It’s also knit from the top down so you can make the body and the sleeves as long as you want. There are 10 sizes available in the pattern, with a chest circumference ranging from 32 to 68 inches, or 81.5 to 172.5 cm. It’s meant to be worn with 4-6 inches/10-15 cm of positive ease at the chest.

The pattern page on Ravelry includes tons of measurements and yardage estimates so you can make sure you’ll get a good fit for your body before you even buy the pattern. Shay also shows a few variations of the sweater so you can see how different options look before you decide how you want to put them together.

The stitch pattern is 1×2 ribbing, which is really easy to do and gives a look almost like fisherman’s rib that’s relaxed and easy to wear.

This sweater looks like a great option for people who are somewhat new to sweater knitting or those who love to have lots of customization options (because it’s like getting multiple sweater patterns in one!).

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself at Ravelry.

[Photo: Shay Johnson]

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