Fall ’14 Twist Collective is Out

The newest issue of Twist Collective has been released, and it’s full of great projects for fall. There’s a lot of heavy cabling, stranded colorwork, textured stitches and other details that make for fun, warm and striking knitting.

In addition to the patterns there are articles about charity knitting, yarn composition and lace knitting, raising mohair goats, substituting yarn smartly and working stranded colorwork like a pro.

There are lots of patterns to love but some of my favorites include Sandi Rosner’s fun zig-zaggy Hullaballo socks; the pretty hat, cowl and mitten set Kokliko by Barbara Gregory, festooned with bright colorwork flowers; Alison Green’s trim Smarty cardigan, which features cool colorwork diamonds and twists on the surface; the cowl neck vest Ashling by Rusty Baker, with a funky woven and holey look; Marnie MacLean’s Heyday, a bottom up raglan with complex little details at the edges; the pretty beaded wingspan shawl Hausti by Susanna IC; Kate Gilbert’s Paria, a simple looking sweater with shaping provided by panels of twisted rib; and of course the cover sweater Greenery by Hélène Rush with its pretty leaf details.

Patterns from Twist Collective are sold individually as PDFs and run between $6 and $7 each.

See anything you like? I’d love to hear about it.

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[Photo via Twist Collective.]

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It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends.

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat.

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away.

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches.

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try.

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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