Get into Fall Knitting with Yarnspirations

Happy fall to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere (and happy spring to the rest of you!). It’s officially prime knitting season, so if your needles have been hibernating all summer (perish the thought!) it’s time to get to stitching again.

Yarnspirations is just one knitting company that’s ready to inspire you with great new projects for fall. I bring them up specifically because I love their lookbooks, which are super inspiring even if you never knit or crochet any of the projects in them.

You can see more in their Northern Lights collection (lots of crochet, but I love the Slouchy Sweater Dress) and Culture Club collection (I want a Diagonal Stripes Sweater on my needles right now).

I mention this in particular also because they’re about to kick off a Culture Club knit (and crochet) along, the knit project of which is the Shadow Cowl pictured above. It’s two-color brioche, with an accent trim in a third color. It’s rated intermediate but once you get brioche stitch down it’s really pretty easy.

The knitalong starts Sept. 29 with the release of how-to videos. If you’re playing along, you can enter their photo contest for a chance to win a yarn prize pack.

What are you knitting for fall? I’ve moved on to a super bulky cabled scarf I can’t wait to show you!

[Photo via Yarnspirations.]

Specific to knitters, you can join our Knitting Patterns Only group to get, well, knitting patterns, ask questions and gain inspiration for what to knit next.

Looking for Yarn online? Check out Lionbrand our preferred source for purchasing yarn online.

Looking for Fall patterns to Knit? Check out these Fall knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

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Santa and Saint Nicholas generally get all the good press, but Central European kids know you don’t want to just be good so you get presents from St. Nicholas; you also want to avoid the ire of Krampus. (He’s depicted as a human-like figure with horns and usually hairy or furry who gives birch rods instead of gifts to kids who are bad.)

If you’re the type to embrace the naughty side (or you just want to scare the children into good behavior over the holidays), maybe you’ll want to knit a Krampus sweater.

This one, from Sofie Amalie Laulund, is a top down circular yoke sweater with Krampus faces at the top and cavorting Krampuses further down the body, with some traditional Scandinavian snowflakes thrown in for fun.

Because of the large motifs there’s not a lot of room for adjusting the fit, but it is available in five sizes (the Ravelry page doesn’t say what the sizing is, and it says its worked with no ease but the photo looks like the sweater has a bit of positive ease, so if you decide to make this one just check the measurements and your own comfort level for ease when picking a size).

It also uses five colors, but there’s very little red and brown so you can probably use scrap yarn for those parts. It calls for DK weight yarn. You’ll want a background color that helps the creatures stand out. You could also work the snowflake bands in different colors if you want to mix it up.

The pattern is available in both English and Danish, and you can find it on Ravelry. This is the designer’s first pattern, which kudos to them because it’s such an ambitious (and fun!) project I’m happy to add to my collection of whimsy-filled knits.

[Photo: Sofie Amalie Laulund]

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