My Store, My Mountain Pattern Ebook Released

Yarn maker Schachenmayr has a line of bulky, colorful yarns perfect for outerwear made for hitting the slopes called My Mountain. The company has done a lot of interesting things to get knitters excited about the yarn, and the latest was a design contest involving yarn stores.

The winners of that contest have been named, and their projects collected in a free ebook called My Store, My Mountain, which is available on Ravelry.

The book includes 12 patterns, six of which are for hats. The others are cowls, a shawl, a pair of fingerless mitts and a pair of mittens.

True to the line, these projects are bright and colorful, but none are that difficult to knit.

The 3×3 Hats by Carly Stipe were one project that caught my eye. These bulky hats use three different colors of yarn and three different design options to make a bunch of unique hats. I also like Trisha Mitberg’s Mad Creek Mitts, which are super simple but look really classic thanks to the use of self-striping yarn.

If you’re a skier, a fan of the outdoors or you just like the look of having come off the slopes, these projects are worth checking out.

See anything that catches your eye? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Ravelry.]

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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