Get into Fall Knitting with Yarnspirations

September 23, 2015 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Use Your Sock Yarn Scraps to Knit a Colorful Scarf

Using your yarn stash is important to me throughout the year, but as I start to feel the end of the year coming on I get more excited about using things I already have in the house. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to go to a store in the thick of holiday shopping times, or I like the idea of having a little space in my stash when the new year rolls around.

It’s super satisfying to use up all the little odd balls you’ve made over the year (or years), and I have several stash busting blankets I work on when it’s cold and will maybe finish someday.

If you’d like to start a stash busting project that’s perfect for using up odd balls, check out the Soukish pattern from Neisha Abdulla. This pattern is made for fingering weight/sock yarn, and it’s worked in a tube with allover color work.

This is great for a couple of reasons. You don’t really have to weave in your ends when you can hide them in a tube (this is one time you might even get by just tying a knot when you change colors!) and you can change colors whenever you run out of yarn and it will look good.

Of course the pattern is made with blocks where the designer changed colors, but you can change yours more or less often as you need to make it work for your stash. You can use blank charts to design your own color combinations, or even your own stitch patterns if you like. You can also adjust the length of the scarf as needed or turn it into a cowl based on the amount of yarn you have.

This project looks like a lot of fun and would be a great thing to have on hand to stitch up and then to wear during the cold, gloomy months.

You can get a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Neisha Abdulla]

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