Get Yarn Inspired by a Book Cover

Yarn dyers are inspired by many different things, from their favorite movies and TV shows to the colors right outside their doors.

I think this may be the first time, however, that I’ve heard of a yarn bundle being inspired by a book cover.

Though I have to say, this particular book cover is gorgeous.

I was sent a review copy of Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, which has nothing to do with knitting, but Benjamin is a knitter and the cover is gorgeous (did I mention?) and it sounded like an interesting story so I read it and it was.

Short version is four kids go visit a gypsy whose special expertise is telling people the exact day they are going to die. The rest of the book is about how they live out the rest of their lives with that information, how it shapes who they become. It’s certainly dark but I enjoyed it.

Someone at Quince & Co. loves the book — or at least its cover — too, because they recently released an Immortalists bundle, which includes a cowl knitting pattern and skeins of six colors of yarn inspired by that dazzling cover designed by Sandra Chiu. Check out Benjamin writing about her writing and her knitting, and check out the bundle, too.

Have you read The Immortalists? Would you be more likely to read a book if you knew it was written by a knitter? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo via Quince & Co.]

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Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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