Bluegrass

This is Wool & Pine’s latest pattern called Bluegrass. You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry. I already did.

We are thrilled to introduce our latest creation: the mesmerizing Bluegrass Shawl! This luxurious stashbuster is designed to bring warmth and style to your wardrobe, while showcasing your artistic flair. With layers of lush brioche stitches and a dazzling color palette, you’ll delight in the enchanting knitting experience that awaits. 

Knitting on the bias creates a chill, low-stitch-count experience, allowing the bold colors to truly steal the show. Unleash your inner artist! Our sample showcases a stunning mix of Hedgehog Fibres Sock Minis in an array of vibrant, variegated colorways. Dive into your stash, mix and match your favorite shades, and create a one-of-a-kind, plush, reversible fabric for your personalized Bluegrass Shawl. 

No need to worry about weaving in ends – the charming fringe takes care of that! Plus, our pattern comes with a handy guide for selecting yarns and transitioning between colors, empowering you to craft a unique fabric that rocks your woolly world, using your most treasured sock yarns, scraps, and mini skeins. 

Of course, we encourage you to knit your style, so feel free to opt for more subdued, solid, or fewer colors if you prefer. Check out the gallery for plenty of knitspo! 

New to Brioche? Fear not! We’ve designed this pattern with adventurous beginners in mind: the stitch pattern remains consistent throughout the shawl, and there’s only one type of increase and decrease to master.

You need approximately 1400 yards of yarn for the shawl. If you are coming to our Outdoor Sale on April 29th we will have lots and lots of hand dyed fingering weight yarn on sale for $20 a skein. Hedgehog discontinued colours, Uschitita, LITLG, Long Dog, Old Soul plus lots more. Grab some skeins to add to your stash and make the beautiful wrap.

I was supposed to be getting ready for LYS Day but instead I played with colours. These one of a kind kits are available online. They have 10 skeins of single ply fingering weight which is way more than enough for the wrap. It will get you almost three wraps or one wrap and a Stephen West Shawl and an Ambah Shawl. I wanted to give you enough colours. You can make the wrap with four skeins but you won’t have the beautiful colour variation. I priced the kits at $200 which is one heck of a deal.

When I chose the colours I was looking at the test shawl knit by valleyhiggs. It isn’t as colourful as some of the others which isn’t a bad thing.

Look at this combination. I am drooling. These are Theme Packs from Emma’s Yarns. Sailor’s Delight and On the Vine. Talk about a stunning shawl. I think I might need to make the shawl with these to wear to the yarn show I’m going to in June. It’s in Chicago so it can’t be anything too heavy. It is going to be hot out!!!

Have a good evening going through your stash to find yarn for the wrap. 😘

Easy

We have a new sample. Diana dropped this off at 4 as I was closing the store. I rushed to get a few pictures.

The pattern is called Easy (purchased on Ravelry). Diana started it on Saturday evening and finished on Tuesday. We used one ball of Lang Linello (colour 54). If you want the scarf bigger then you will need 2 balls.

Shawlettes in garter stitch are my favorite: They look great in a colorful yarn, they are squishy and warm your neck, and they are so easy to knit that even beginners will enjoy making them.  

This shawlette is named “Easy” because it is just that: So simple to knit, but the biased construction and change of knitting direction will bring out the best of a multicolored yarn. It is long and skinny and can be wrapped around several times, or tied with a knot – and it uses only 459 yards of fingering weight yarn. 

Length: ca. 200 cm (80 inches), Depth ca. 24 cm (10 inches) 

You start in one corner and knit a long triangle until 50% of your yarn is used up. Then you change the direction and modularly add a second triangle (no seaming required) – and you have made a colorful addition to your wardrobe!

Diana and I talked about the needles and decided on 3.25mm. You might want to use 3.5mm - it will depend on how tight you knit. We didn’t want a loose knit for this scarf. It’s a personal preference.

You can see the different direction of the stitches. If your stitches are too loose then the dividing line becomes loose and untidy.

I took a few minutes this morning to order new Opal sock yarns. Our Opal shelves are starting to look bare.

This afternoon I place an order with Hedgehog. I’m not sure when it’s coming. I hope soon.

This is called Compote - a limited edition colour that will only be coming once. We will have this colour coming on different bases including Oh So Fine. 

We will be adding seven colours of Oh So Fine to the colours we already carry.

This is Barley, a brand new colour of Tweedy. It’s coming along with the original undyed Tweedy.

I shouldn’t have stayed up so late last night. Between knitting and hockey I lost track of time. It was way too early when the alarm went off this morning. 

New Patterns

If we can get past the weather (we had snow here earlier today) it’s a happy day. Stephen West and Andrea Mowry released patterns today.

Choose five colors to knit this sideways triangle shawl. This wavy shawl pattern features four colors of fingering weight merino wool with one color of lace weight mohair silk. The mohair silk yarn adds a shiny and fluffy accent to the wool colors. Mohair is the spice in the fabric, making it extra soft and drapey. The simple stitch patterns change to keep the knitting interesting and each section features a new striped color combination. You can knit this shawl in any size by simply binding off early for a smaller shawl. Continue knitting more pattern repeats for a larger shawl. I-cord edges frame this classic Westknits shawl shape.

You can purchase the pattern for the Mohair Spice Shawl on Ravelry.

I love incorporating fluffy mohair into my shawl projects. It gives such an elegant and soft drape to the fabric. I assembled ten of my favorite shawls that feature lace weight mohair into an exciting e-book collection, so you can knit your own magical mohair shawls! This 10-piece e-book is a 70 EUR value available for 40 EUR (excl. VAT for EU countries)! Mohair Shawls includes these Westknits patterns…

Mohairino Medley 
Curvette Shawl 
Slippy V Crescent 
Quake Scarf & Shawl 
Brioband Shawl 
Holey Chevrons 
Stripified 
Striped Esjan 
Rain or Shine Shawl 
Mohair Spice Shawl

The ebook can also be purchased on Ravelry. 

Photos © Stephen West

This is The Traveler (pattern purchased on Ravelry). 

I wanted the perfect cropped hoodie to throw on with leggings for when I am traveling and this textured sweater was just the ticket! After knitting one, I knew I would also love it in a crew neck, so I included bonus instructions for both so that no matter your personal taste - you can travel in style! 
This hoodie is knit from the bottom up, seamlessly, except for the underarms. The body is worked in the round until 
the divide for the yoke. The remainder is worked flat, and the shoulders are finished with an exposed seam using the 3 needle bind off. The hood and sleeves are picked up from the body of the sweater.

The sweater is knit in sport weight yarn. A couple of suggestions are Madelinetosh Woolcycle and Juniper Moon Patagonia Organic Merino.

Photos © Andrea Mowry

My Kilim Cowl is growing. I really like how the colours are working. It’s very addictive which isn’t always a good thing because I stay up too late knitting.

I’m very early today. I ran errands this morning and then did a bit of paperwork this afternoon. My HST payment has been made - I’m extra early this month. The Leafs are on tonight so I don’t want to be writing while I’m trying to watch.

What happened to the weather?

We knit ZickZack using one ball of Noro Tsubame. I really like Noro Tsubame. It is soft. It changes colours. It’s beautiful. Unfortunately we are having a hard time getting stock. There are new colours but they aren’t available until the end of May. Existing colours won’t be available until the end of June. I have had some of these colours on back order since August. I made the decision that it’s time to clear the yarn. We can’t wait 10 months to restock yarn. 

The colour of my scarf is one of the colours that is currently out of stock but we have lots of great colours available. 

The pattern is free on Ravelry.

Here are the changes that I made to the pattern.

With 4.5mm needles cast on 72 stitches. You don’t need to change yarn every 2 rows. Continue working until you are almost off yarn. Cast off.

If you want a longer, narrower scarf then cast on 60 stitches

All in stock Tsubame is on sale for 25% off until Saturday. The discount is automatic. 

We have a few more store samples knit with Tsubame.

This is Gamut which is knit with 2 balls. Kits are available online or you can choose your own colours.

The Impressionist Shawl. 

I was in the store today shipping orders and then packing up yarn for our LYS Day outdoor sale. There are cardboard boxes around the store. I’m trying to make everything look as neat as possible until the 29th. You are all in for a great day. I found Classic Elite yarns including Liberty. There isn’t enough of any one colour for an adult sweater but you could make a blanket (remember my Mitred Square post from a few weeks ago?). I found a few skeins of Rowan Fine Art - a fingering weight yarn. There are bags (sweater quantities) of Sublime Evie. This is an Aran weight cotton with 115m on a ball. Take a look at finished projects on Ravelry. 

What happened to the weather??? I was in a t-shirt yesterday and today I’m in a turtleneck. I worked on my temperature blanket and I knit with purples and pinks. I’m going back to the cold weather teals.

Taffy Waves

We have a new shawl in the store. This is Taffy Waves from Hedgehog Fibres (pattern free on Ravelry). We knit the shawl with two skeins of Oh So Fine which should be called Oh So Soft. Diana knit the shawl and said the yarn is amazing.

Lovely two colour shawl with a beginner friendly lace border. The ‘Oh So Fine’ yarn is dreamy soft and is perfect for shawls and accessories that feel luxurious and plush

Our shawl is knit in Ghost and Puppy Love. You can see all the colours we have here. I brought a bag of yarn home to take pictures. I wanted to do it today but we were busy - thanks to all who visited.

Now a bit of knitting. Have a great Saturday evening.

Temperature Blanket

Blue Sky Fibers has a new tank pattern that can be knitting out of Printed Organic Cotton or Organic Cotton Worsted. You can see both yarns here.

Knit flat from the bottom up and seamed, this fitted tank is a quick summer knit project. A versatile piece that can be worn alone or under a jacket with many printed and solid color options.

The pattern for the Tulsa Tank can be purchased on Ravelry. 

Here is a sneak peek at some LYS Day shawl kits from Emma’s Yarns. These are Super Silky (80% Superwash Merino / 20% Silk fingering base). Once we have the final details from Casapinka the kits will be available online and in the store.

I’m also putting together kits in Emma’s Practically Perfect Sock and Hedgehog Sock. This is just a start. 

Mr. Canpar stopped by at the end of the day with lots of Lantern Moon needle sets.

Last night I pulled out my Temperature Blanket. You might think I’m making this up but I put it away last year on April 8th. Perfect timing to pick it up again.