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Giveaway: Color Wheel Knits

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Congratulations to Susan!

How many of you have knit a Color Affection shawl? Or at least know what I’m talking about? This gorgeous stripey Garter Stitch shawl was a huge hit on Ravelry, and is still super popular, with more than 13,000 people having knit it. (I haven’t yet, but it is definitely on my list.)

The designer, Veera Välimäki, recently released (in English, it had been out in Finnish for a while) a whole book of similarly simple but really beautiful designs in Color Wheel Knits: Knits for Hand Dyed Yarns.

The sections of the book focus on different colors and include garments and accessories for men, women and children, all using tonal hand-dyed yarns.

The book is lovely, the knits are inspiring and I’m sure you’ll want to knit some of them, too, if you’re the winner of this giveaway!

The prize here is an ebook copy of the book (not print), and if you’d like a chance to win leave a comment on this post by the end of the day Sunday, July 20. I’d love to know what your favorite color is. And go ahead and tell me if you’ve knit a Color Affection, too (or more than one, no judging here).

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

Comments

  1. Hi everyone! I’ve never knit a color affection shawl before but I am itching to try it! My favorite colors are warm tones so I really love yellows and reds especially!

  2. I have not knitted one of these yet but when I do I will start with blue my favorite color.

  3. I would love to knit a Color Affection shawl. I am a ”cherries and berries” girl – my favourite colour is rasberry red / pink

  4. I have not knit a Color Affection; I spend too much time knitting for little ones. Favorite color (at the moment!) is green.

  8. I have been gravitating more toward blues lately. I knit a Color Affection shawl a few years ago. My father-in-law went to a yarn store when on a business trip and the staff helped pick the pattern and colors. It is very striking with orange, purple and turquoise. I might never have put those colors together, but it has made me more experimental with colors and putting them together.

  10. .I have not knitted the shawl, as I have still not recovered from knitting a christening shawl for my daughter (34 years ago) to have a go. Favourite colour has to be purple like amethyst.

  11. I don’t have a favorite color but I tend to gravitate more towards bright or bold colors! I haven’t made the Color Affection Shawl yet, but it’s on my list!!

  13. I haven’t knit the shawl yet but when I do it’ll be in shades of grey and black 🙂

  14. Who hasn’t knit a Color Affection!?!? I made a summery version with light blue, off white and pale yellow…very beach-y…and still one of my favorite knits. I LOVE Veera’s patterns and didn’t know the English translation of her book had been released. Yay!!!

  16. I have not made a color affection shawl yet but recently made four shawlsfor the ladies at the symphony. I can’t afford to renew my subscription, so it was my good-bye gift to the ladies I had talked to for the past decade.
    Blue has been my favorite color since the day I was born. Thank you for the chance to win.

  18. Such a pretty shawl, I have not knit this. It would look good in so many colors, I’d have to really think about that….typically I choose earthy greens, grays, blues, etc. Thanks for the chance to win.

  19. Hello.
    My favorite color is purple.
    An I have not yet knit a Color Affection Shawl….

  21. I’ve always admired Veera’s unusual design. Never knitted anything of hers just yet, but would like to make a child & adult sweaters and a shawl. I love all the earth tone colors. No purple please, as I am blond! 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway

  24. This shawl is in my RAV queue and I can just imagine it in all the shades of grey that are my fav… starting with a lighter greyish cream color, on down to a deep charcoal. It is a beautiful design and I would love to win it, so I can make it as a gift for my sister in law.

  25. The Color Affection shawl has been in my queue for a while now. I’d love to knit one in grey and purple!
    lindarumsey on Ravelry.

  26. I did not knit a Color Affection because I had the impression that it would have been a long knit. But I did a Different Lines and I loved it! I follow Vera and her work on revelry. My favorite color at the moment is green. Emerald green!
    patmom on Rav

  27. I haven’t knitted a Color Affection shawl yet but do have the pattern. Current fave color is Raspberry!
    OrangeSmoothie on Ravelry

  28. What a beautiful shawl! I love blue but could see this pattern in soft browns and greys. I’ve actually spent the past few weeks looking for a new book of patterns and haven’t had any luck. This looks right up my alley!

  29. I’ve started a Color Affection twice but got distracted both times. Maybe one of these days I’ll get it done!

  30. I haven’t knit it yet, but have done a similar with some yarn in colors that I wouldn’t have chose myself. But they went well together- I enjoyed seeing the results, and it was a good stretch. I do enjoy colorplay, and gravitate to jewel colors.

  34. So many colors to choose! All time favorite though is red. I have not knit one yet.

  35. I’ve bookmarked many of her designs on ravelry. Favorite color – in yarn anyway….would be all the shades of grey.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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.