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Free Pattern Friday! The Spice Market Shawl crocheted in Uni Merino is dramatic, beautiful, and fun to make. Read more on our blog!

Free Pattern Friday! Today, not one but TWO beautiful one-skein patterns in Major - one for knitters and one for crocheters. Read more on our blog!

Are you crocheting along with Rico Design? They're releasing a new free pattern to crochet in Ricorumi DK cotton mini-skeins, every Friday through the end of November. Available for a limited time!

https://www.rico-design.de/en/collections/ricorumi-christmas-crochet-along/

Dame Angela Lansbury and her mother, Moyna MacGill knitting on the set of The Harvey Girls (1946). (X)

Socktober is almost upon is, which means... it’s knitalong time!

On October 5th we’re sharing the pattern for the Party Flag Socks designed by Allison Lutes. We’ll be making ours in Uni Merino. It’s a great choice for this pattern since it also comes in mini-skeins (Uni Merino Mini) that are perfect for small amounts of colorwork like this.

Read more about this KAL here on our blog!

Free Pattern! The Skill-Builder Scarf designed in Fibra Natura Dona is a sampler custom made to level up your crochet game! Read more on our blog.

Our new Soft Simplicity pattern collection features four calming patterns to knit in feathery, matte eyelash yarn Minou. Designer Rachel Brockman takes a deeper look at these beautiful designs, and offers handy tips for working with Minou, in this post on our blog.

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Free Pattern Friday! Nothing beats a good sock yarn shawl! The Expressionist Shawl is a colorful delight knitted in self-patterning Wacki Saki yarn. Read more on our blog!

Paper Flowers features a lace body offset by bracelet-length stockinette sleeves, and a boat neck to enhance the overall vintage vibes of this sweet pullover. Made in budget-friendly, easy-care Uptown Baby Sport, it's the best of all worlds! Read more on our blog.  

Pattern: Bree

Designer: Aubrey Busek

Yarn: Universal Yarn Truva

Free Pattern Friday!

Knitted in Tencel/wool blend Vireo, Aubrey Busek’s Tincture is sized XS to 5X and can work as a vest or a tank. The stitch pattern is an easily memorized eight row repeat. It’s a great way to beat the heat and look awesome doing it.

Read more on our blog.

Free Pattern Friday!

The Playground Hoodie (pattern link here) is sized from 2-12 years, shown here in a size 4. It’s knitted in machine washable self-striping Cotton Supreme Waves. Practical, comfortable, bright, and fun - it’s a perfect summertime project!

Read more on our blog at this link.

This week’s Free Pattern Friday offering comes in both knit and crochet versions! Each takes just two balls of Bamboo Pop, our 50/50 cotton/bamboo blend. You can grab both patterns together at this link on our site.

So this is the Cascade Hat by Rachel Brockman. She loves nature, and appreciates the flow of things, and it shows in everything she creates.

This particular hat that the model is wearing, I knitted myself.  Last fall this beautiful new yarn from Italy called Truva arrived, and I fell in love.  Truva is part cotton and part cashmere, and the fibers take the dye differently to create the color you see, which is somehow both rustic and polished. I was just itching to make something with it.  I asked Rachel if there was anything that I could do for the team in this yarn, and she graciously wrote this one ball pattern up, which we’ve made free on our site.

Really, knitting this was just as much for me as it was for the team, since I was spending a lot of time in a hospital room with a loved one. It helped me stay settled to have a beautiful project in a luxury yarn to make.

My loved one is fine now, having made a better recovery than anyone - even me - expected. And at the end of that time, I was still in love with Truva.

I mention this now because we have a fantastic pattern collection coming out in this yarn at the end of the week. If you’re not on our newsletter mailing list, it would be a good time to join to hear more about it. And keep your eyes peeled for more beautiful things in Truva.