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Wool People Winter 2015

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Wool People Winter 2015 is full of warmth and texture.The latest collection from Brooklyn Tweed was recently released, and if you’re into knitting cozy sweaters and other projects full of texture, you need to check it out.

Norah Gaughan fans will also want to pay the lookbook a visit, because she’s now a member of the in-house design team and this time around offers three gorgeous, classic Gaughan designs.

Some of my favorites include Julie Hoover’s Sanford, a vest worked with a textured chevron pattern; the super-long and cozy Emerson cardigan by Véronik Avery, which I can tell you I would absolutely live in during the winter; Hoover’s Keaton (it’s there on the cover), a woven stitch turtleneck that would be perfection with a wool skirt; Jared Flood’s dramatic Carpeaux jacket, worked with deep collars in ribbing and cables; and Michelle Wang’s Shui-mo, a drapey ombre cardigan worked side to side.

If you’re a fan of art you’ll also want to check this one out, as it details a trip the staff took to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where they snapped pictures to serve as inspiration for knits. I want to do this at my local museum!

See anything you like? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Brooklyn Tweed.]

Comments

  1. There’s a lot of beautiful designs in this pattern book. I especially like the Marshall sweater/jacket by Norah Gaughan. I can’t believe that it is knit in fingering weight! It looks so much heavier. Thanks for sharing the link to this lookbook!!

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]