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New Lace Collection: Sojourn

Sojourn: A Knit Lace Collection is a book (or eBook) of fourteen delicate lacy shawls, stoles, and wraps with lots of variation, making it great for experienced lace knitters as well as knitters looking to up their lace game!

Sojourn: A Knit Lace Collection book cover

In Sojourn, you’ll find pi and half-pi shawls (these are Lunulata by Joyce Fassbender & Fenestra by Ruth Nguyen):

Lunulata and Fenestra shawls

You’ll see big, wide rectangles (these are Shetland Flowers by Fiona Munro & Eden Lace by Jenny Williams):

Shetland Flowers and Eden Lace shawls

There are crescents and curved triangles (these are Larix Decidua by Caroline Steinford & Crystallize by Claire Slade)…

Larix Decidua and Crystallize shawls

…medium-sized triangles (these are Jardin Des Fleurs by Jenny Williams & English Ivy by Kalurah Hudson)…

Jardin Des Fleurs and English Ivy shawls

…and giant triangles! So many triangles!

Shetland Mosaic and Finella shawls

The projects in Sojourn are knit in a variety of lace-weight and fingering-weight yarns. The above two—Shetland Mosaic by Magda Stryk Therrien & Finella by Allison LoCicero—are both made in fingering weight (Gloss & Palette), for chunkier, cozier, squishier lace. The below two—Doretta by Irina Lyubaeva & Dilaridae by M K Nance—are both made in shiny, lace-weight Luminance, for much more delicate and luxurious vibes.

Doretta and Dilaridae shawls

And there’s even one project with optional beaded edging! This is Lumme by Susanna IC:

Lumme beaded shawl

The book is available printed and as an eBook download, or you can grab patterns individually (head to the print book or ebook page to get to all the individual pattern pages) if there are only one or two that catch your eye.


Monthly Yarn Sale: 20% off Gloss!

Our February Monthly Yarn Sale is on all Gloss yarns! If you’re already familiar with this Merino/Silk blend, then you may know that you have 3 weights to choose from: Lace, Fingering, and DK. There’s even an undyed option, Bare Gloss (fingering & DK weights). Straddling the line between pure decadence and everyday wearability, one squeeze of these fibers and you’ll see why Gloss is SO boss.

Knit Picks Gloss Lace

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Summer Launch: New Bare Yarns + Lace Collections!

Knit Picks Summer yarn sale 2018

Summer starts next week, but things are already heating up around the Knit Picks office. We’re SO excited to show off our 2 new Lace collections, as well as 12 brand spankin’ new Bare Yarns! Did we mention that we’re also kicking off our biggest summer yarn sale ever, too? It’s almost too much awesomeness for one post. Almost.

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Joyful Lace

The flowers are blooming and the days are getting warmer which means it must be time to break out the lace knitting! Lightweight, versatile and oh-so-classic, lace shawls are the perfect accessory to knit and wear. Our new Joyful Lace Pattern Collection is an exquisite compilation of 15 lace designs, just the thing to inspire you to dip into your lace yarns. We’ll take a deeper look at three of my favorite patterns from this collection, including the shawl in our brand new Luminance Yarn!

 

First up is Singer’s Austen Shawl in Bare Luminance. The large-scale rectangular shape makes this an easy pattern to knit and wear. A fairly simple repeat makes up the body of this piece, with a delicate and lightly romantic peaked edge as the finishing touch.

Luminance shines in this shawl, the fabric is so light-weight but cozy, perfect for wrapping around your shoulders while enjoying the last throes of sunset out on a patio on a romantic evening out.

Next, Caroline Steinford’s Dewdrop Paths is an absolutely stunning example of a single-skein shawl. Perfect for stashbusting, you can complete this pattern with just one skein of Alpaca Cloud Lace. I love the idea of making a few of these in various “pop” colors and using them as the finishing touch to any outfit throughout the year.

Alpaca Cloud has excellent stitch definition as shown in these crisp points. Wouldn’t this look great in a hot pink like Rose or even a warm, wine red like Juliet? By choosing radically different colors, a single pattern can be knit up over and over to fill a different niche in your wardrobe.

Lastly, my absolute favorite pattern from this collection is the Half Moon Summer Shawl by Halleh Tehranifar. I love the circular motif at the neckline and the absolutely flattering way this shawl falls along the shoulders.

Unlike the other shawls, I consider this a “draping” shawl that’s worn more like a cardigan rather than a “wrapping” shawl with ends that are meant to be tossed over your shoulder in a scarf-like fashion. Plus, the slightly heavier fingering-weight yarn used in this project makes this shawl oh-so-cozy with a satisfying weight once blocked.

Whether you’re a die-hard lace knitter or interested in trying your hand at this delightful genre of knitting, Joyful Lace is a great collection with patterns for every aesthetic. Make sure to grab a copy while we’re running our fabulous book sale too! All in stock books are available at 40% off, including our new collections!

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The Lonely Tree Shawl

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One of the projects on my “someday” list has been a worsted weight shawl. I’ve always wanted to have a a touch of Kirsten Larson and Laura Ingalls in my life… even if the weather isn’t always quite right and I’m not about to be tossing one over my shoulders before I head out to milk some sassy milk cows in the dead of winter. At least not any time soon. Sylvia Bo Bilvia’s Lonely Tree Shawl has been in my Ravelry queue forever, just waiting for the perfect yarn to cast on with.

This shawl has all the characteristics that I look for in a lace shawl: an easy to remember pattern, top down construction and a nice simple border. The great thing about this one is that it’s knit with the worsted weight wool so it’s a super quick project (at least compared to other fingering or lace weight shawls I’ve been working on). I grabbed four balls of the new Wool of the Andes Superwash in Fjord Heather and my size 8 needles and got to work in the car on the way down to the Redwood National Park for 4th of July weekend.

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It took three days of pretty steady knitting (knitting in the car, at the rest stop, around the campfire, in the tent and back in the car again) to finish it! One quick soak to wash the smokey campfire smell and it’s ready to wear (I LOVE that smell, but not when it’s tinged with the scent of cooking veggie dogs too!).

Now I have a shawl that reminds me of all those afternoons I spent dreaming of cabin life growing up and my vacation to one of the prettiest forests on this coast. The new Wool of the Andes Superwash feels just like regular Wool of the Andes (I was actually joking around the office that if they lost their ball bands I’d never be able to tell them apart) so now I can have my traditional wooly, rugged knits but I can toss them in the washing machine!


Feather and Fan Crochet

So, as I’ve mentioned before that I have an incredible amount of lace weight yarn just lurking around in the shadows of my yarn stash. Everyone else in the office seems to have learned their lesson (aka that they just won’t ever get around to knitting with lace weight yarn) so they steer well clear of it whenever a stray skein winds up in the office. I, on the other hand am more than happy to snap each and every one of them up and take them home with me. Well… almost anything, and by anything I mean just the blues!

This means that I’m always prowling Ravelry, our own pattern section and all the available books in the office for lace weight patterns. ANYTHING to put this lovely, light yarn to good use. Eventually I found A. Westbrook’s free crochet Lacy Feather and Fan pattern on Ravelry. I loved how open the pattern was, the simple two-row repeat and that I could really easily turn this into a cowl. SOLD!

I grabbed the nearest skein which wound up being an older Shadow Lace color (Jazz) and my size 4 (G) hook. A month of pretty sporadic work later I had one of the prettiest, breeziest cowls I’ve ever seen! I LOVE the pattern and how quickly I was able to use up an entire skein! Plus, the slightly denser fabric inherent to crochet means that the project actually winds up feeling like it’s done in a fingering weight yarn. I also mistakenly worked the entire project in DC where I should have done TC which means that the fabric didn’t wind up being as open as it was meant to be, but I really love how it turned out, perhaps even more than I would have if I’d caught my mistake earlier.

I have a few more skeins of lace in my stash and I was thinking about trying this pattern out with alternating colors every two rows. I can’t wait to wear it this summer once the sun goes down.