Monthly Archives: July 2016

Free Pattern Friday – Lovely Lunch Bag

Since I bring my lunch to work everyday, I was particularly excited when designer Faith Schmidt showed me her idea for a knitted lunch bag pattern, as an alternative to a boring brown bag. It was perfect – small enough to carry around comfortably but large enough to hold my lunch. And now we have it available for you for free – check out the Lovely Lunch Bag!

Free knitted lunch bag pattern - Lovely Lunch Bag from knitpicks.com

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Uniquely You: Choosing a colorwork palette

A sequel to our 2015 Fair Isle collection, Creative Color is packed with 15 brand new patterns for colorwork knitting from our favorite independent designers!

The projects range from accessories to complex fair isle sweaters, but all are equally stunning! But what happens if you love the pattern, but the color palette just isn’t your style? It’s a bit more complicated to substitute colors for a pattern that calls for many different shades – but it’s definitely not impossible!

To show you just how versatile colorwork can be, we’ve chosen three different projects from Creative Color and knit up swatches in alternate colorways as inspiration. Let’s get started!

1. The Carivel Colorblock Sweater by Megan Spencer

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Creative Color: Our New 2016 Fair Isle Collection

Crazy for colorwork? Say “hellooooo!” to our new 2016 Fair Isle collection: Creative Color! This collection is an explosion of gorgeous autumnal jewel-tones, impressive motifs and utterly wearable knits. Newcomers to Fair Isle can try their hand at one of the classic accessories while experienced knitters have plenty of intricate sweaters to choose from for their next knitting challenge. Today we’ll be looking at three of the stunning pullovers from this brand new collection.

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Free Pattern Friday – Breakfast of Champions Set

Did you see our utterly adorable new free pattern set for July? Check out Breakfast of Champions – #7 in our year long Keeping Home series!
Free Knitting Pattern Set - Breakfast of Champions from knitpicks.com
This fun table set includes a placemat, napkin and mug cozy inspired by the most important meal of the day! Joyce Fassbender, one of our favorite designers, outdid herself with these unique and fun patterns – and it’s a great way to practice some fun, new knitting techniques.
For instance, the Buttered Toast Napkin uses a small amount a intarsia along with cute little pat of butter that is sewn on when completed.
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Our sale is on sale! (and everything else, too)

Surprise! We’ve got sunny savings in store for you – get an extra 10% off sitewide with the promo code SUMMER10* at checkout.

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The best part? You’ll also enjoy the additional discount on everything included in our summer yarn sale. Which, by the way, is ending very soon! There is officially less than a week left to save big on over 1,000 yarns. Treat yourself to your favorite stash-worthy yarn or try a new-to-you yarn, either way – don’t forget to double up the savings with the code SUMMER10.

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Favorite Knit and Crochet Books

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As the Administrative Assistant here at Knit Picks, I get to see every book that comes into our office. It’s really fun to see whats new and exciting in the world of yarn – although I admit it’s also distracting… I get inspired and all I want to do is play with yarn instead of work! So before I head off to plan my next knitting project, here are a few of my favorite knit and crochet books to cross my desk recently.

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