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Knit and Crochet Now! Ending after Season 13

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Annie’s has announced that the latest season of “Knit and Crochet Now!,” which is the 13th, will be the last. The show, which has aired on PBS stations around the country, is currently midway through the season, which will wrap up at the end of April (at least on my local station)

According to a statement on Facebook, Annie’s decided to cease production, but all episodes of the series are available for viewing by members of Annie’s Creative Studio.

“After 13 wonderful seasons full of creativity, excitement and love for all things knit and crochet, we would like to extend our thanks to all of our excellent instructors, and to you, our loyal fans,” the post said.

“Knit and Crochet Now” is a program focused on building knit and crochet skills and demonstrating patterns on a theme. A changing set of hosts and guest instructors has been on the show through the years, with some of the current series instructors including Lily Chin, Britt Schmiesing, Lena Skvagerson, Kristin Omdahl and Rachel Alford.

Annie’s Creative Studio is a monthly membership program that gives people access to more than 1,900 videos and 1,500 patterns related to knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting and home decorating. New content is regularly added to the platform.

Annie’s is currently offering a 15-day free trial of the program, which costs $7.99 per month. You can also purchase individual episodes for $3.99 each if there are only a few episodes you need access to.

The plan is to keep the Knit and Crochet Now Facebook and Instagram pages open so people can continue to share and learn in those communities.

While it’s always sad to see fiber arts publications and programs go away, “Knit and Crochet Now” has been a great resource and introduction to the fiber arts for many crafters over many years and we are thankful for its legacy.

[Photo via Knit and Crochet Now Facebook page.]

 

Comments

  1. Beautiful shrug. I like how you made such a versatile use of a little bit of yarn. I don’t have a Sentro (yet) but I do have 2 flatbed knitting machines and love to design garments on them, a real superpower of these machines!

  2. Thank you! I have a flatbed machine as well and I need to do more patterns for it. You could definitely do this on a flatbed, you’d just make one long flat piece and then fold and seam the sleeves.

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Fun Halloween Cowls to Knit

One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine. 

Case in point: Halloween cowls. 

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute. 

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like. 

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use. 

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry. 

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart. 

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry. 

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry. 

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available.