Lion Brand Launches Schitt’s Creek Yarn, Patterns

If you’re a fan of the show “Schitt’s Creek” or know someone who is, you’ll want to check out the newest collection from Lion Brand Yarn.

They recently launched a Schitt’s Creek branded line of yarn, which is 100 percent acrylic and comes in eight themed colors. It’s a medium weight yarn and features trivia about the show on the label. Fun!

They also have seven knit and two crochet projects based on the show, which you can purchase as kits or just the patterns. My fave is the Cafe Tropical Sweater (though it uses 24/7 Cotton, not the branded yarn). You can even finish your projects off with branded garment tags to make them just pretentious enough.

Check out the full line at Lion Brand!

Check out these Schitts creek labels you can add to your handmade designs.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn.]

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I’m not saying you have six different colors of super bulky yarn in your stash, but if you did, this would be a great use for it.

Anastasia’s Cardigan from Anastasia Pargett and Andi Satterlund is a cute, boxy, colorblocked cardigan with an open front that would be a fun first sweater pattern or first playing with color sweater.

It comes in 10 sizes, ranging from a chest measurement of 34 to 70 inches (that’s 86.4 to 177.8 cm for our metric friends). There’s no shaping at all except a little bit on the sleeves, so its a great choice for knitters of any skill level. The color changes are easy to do because all the pieces are worked separately and seamed together. And because there are different colors everywhere your seams don’t even have to be perfect to line up different blocks of color.

In addition to the color blocking options (which of course you could tone down if you don’t want as many color changes or don’t have that many colors) there are other ideas for customization through surface stitching. One of the versions shown here, for example, only uses five colors, while one uses contrasting yarn for the bands and more stitching to highlight the color changes on the sleeves.

If you don’t happen to have a ton of super bulky yarn on hand, you could make this an odd ball project by working multiple strands of worsted or other weights of yarn held together. Change colors when the pattern suggests or just whenever you run out of yarn to make it colorful and fun to knit and wear.

The pattern is available for free from Knit Picks, where you can also make yourself a kit using the suggested Fluff of the Andes yarn, a singles yarn made of Peruvian Highland wool that’s available in 26 colors.

[Photo via Knit Picks]

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