Category Archives: cables

Celtic chill zone: triangle cabled pullover at www.knitpicks.com
Celtic Chill Zone 2017

In honor of the upcoming St. Patrick's day holiday, we've come up with a weekend's worth of projects to knit - and yummy food and drinks to prepare. It's everything you need for your own “Celtic Chill Zone” – a place to knit fancy cables, sip a tasty beverage, and munch on some delicious food. There's a little something Celtic for everyone! For a cozy weekend at home

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Our favorite sweater patterns

Baby, it’s cold outside… time to warm up with some of our best-loved cozy sweaters! It’s not too late to cast on some warm wool and knit yourself a warm snuggly sweater to get you through the end of winter. We’ve gathered a few of our favorite sweater patterns for you – so grab your needles and get started! the Harley The Harley is a modern pullover with simple yet gorgeous cabled accents. The unique neckline features a drawstring, making this pullover the perfect sweater for casual wear. Knit in Swish DK, the Harley sweater is soft, beautiful – ...

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For the love of cables

Have you seen our newest collection? This gorgeous collection is for all the cable lovers out there. I am certainly one of them! When it comes to techniques, cables have always been my favorite - I find them very fun to knit and love watching each twist and turns as they climb up my project. So Woodsmoke is a dream come true - 16 patterns easy to challenging cable projects!

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6 Ways to Wear the Celtic Journey Collection

Are your needles craving textured stitches and captivating cables? Our new collection, Celtic Journey, is filled with wonderful patterns that transition from cool winter months into the fickle months of spring - plus, those cables! We simply can't resist casting on a new project right away. We've chosen three patterns from our new Celtic Journey collection and styled each two different ways. Let's get started with a timeless classic: the cabled sweater. Barra Sweater by Patricia Duncan PRETTY IN PLAID: Casual Friday at work never looked so good! Don't be afraid of mixing texture with prints - try pairing this classic cabled sweater with a plaid skirt or pants for casual cool ensemble.

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Free Crochet Dishcloth Pattern: Cabled Spa Cloth

I've been knitting much longer than I have been crocheting and when I started out, I was facinated by crochet cables - I never knew you could cable in crochet. Cables are one of my favorite looks to any project so I am pretty excited that I now have small project to test my crochet skills - Beth Major's Cabled Spa Cloth!

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Freeport Cardigan - a brown knitted cardigan pattern. Model is shown standing in a wooded area.
Northwoods Pattern Collection

One of the things I love about our new pattern collection, Northwoods (and there are so many things), is how sophisticated and polished all the project are, while still being down-to-earth. They're all just so wearable, you know? And the cable stitches add a lot of interest without being overwhelming to knit. Today, I'm highlighting a couple of my favorite patterns from the collection, with some exclusive images from the photo shoot that I couldn't fit into the book.

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Fall Into Creature Comforts

Well, the autumnal equinox was last week and I could feel its effects right away. It was like the earth just decided to skip any transitional weather and cut to the chase. But that's ok with me, because I love fall! I'm ready for snuggling under layers of blankets, resting on a cloud of lovely pillows, and putting down rugs to warm my feet from the hardwood floors in my apartment. Luckily our newest pattern collection, Creature Comforts, is all about warmth and coziness.

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Worsted Basics

I'm so glad that I finally get to talk about one of my favorite collections to date - Worsted Basics! I love working with worsted yarn and it's a delight to be able to find a whole collection of projects in the same weight in one place. The projects are fantastic which made it easy to take some gorgeous photos of them on location at a house in the lovely Forest Park area. I love those deep, dark woods and we were able to take advantage of lovely scenery between rain showers by ducking into the cute house for a few projects.

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Bulky 2013 Pattern Collection

It's a rare day when the weather manages to cooperate and we're able to do a photo shoot outside without some sort of cover here in Portland and I'm always delighted when I can book a model and schedule time with our photographer with a clear forecast on the horizon. I keep a running catalog of "this would be so great to shoot the next time we have some nice weather" places around Portland and this time Mississippi Ave. in NE Portland had it's turn as our location of choice for the Bulky 2013 pattern collection.

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Reclaiming the Fall – and a giveaway

Comments are now closed - Stay tuned for the winners! Fall has always been my favorite time of year - even when I was young, I was always excited when September rolled around: the weather starts getting cooler, the leaves begin to turn, and hot apple cider and various pumpkin flavored items begin to appear in shops. (How much do I love fall?  Well this guy pretty much sums up my excitement)

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