It is no secret that we have been fans of stranded colorwork for years and years – some of our first published colorwork designs were back in 2007, before Kelbourne Woolens was even founded! Coincidentally, they were in Manos del Uruguay, who we just worked with on our Collaboration Collection! Colorwork can take many forms,…
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Finished Project: Kate’s Newbold Turtleneck
Hooray! Another F.O.! I actually finished this sweater back in October, and even tried to take pictures on the last morning of Camp Workroom Social, but I was looking a little haggard by the end of the weekend. (Sewing jeans in two days is no joke..also, I may have had a wee bit too much…
Year of Gifts: Snowdrop Hat
It’s here! The first pattern in the Year of Gifts! The Snowdrop Hat is a modern colorwork design in Andorra that features a provisionally cast on folded brim, bold graphic colorwork, and a large pom pom. A Kelbourne Woolens leather tag provides the perfect finishing touch! Although the design includes a few different colorwork patterns,…
Finished Project: Charlotte’s Barnelopper
I took advantage of the lovely weather this weekend to finally take some photos of Charlotte in her finished Barnelopper! I knit this sweater for her over the course of 2019, casting on as part of the Fringe and Friends Steekalong last January. The body knit up relatively quickly in between other projects, I sewed…
Designer Feature: Gaze Cowl by Rachel Kieselburg
I gasped yesterday when I saw images of Rachel Kieselburg’s latest design, the Gaze Cowl, while looking through Instagram for a few minutes. There was something so striking about the color work pattern, contrasting colors, and moody images that stopped me in my tracks (er, scroll)! Rachel designed the cowl using Kelbourne Woolens Andorra in…
Designer Feature: Germantown Hats by Chiaki Hayashi
Our Germantown yarn is one of those go-to-for-anything yarns we keep reaching for over and over again. It’s ideal for plain, textured, and stranded knitting. While we’ve been busy knitting piles of textured swatches and sweaters, two new designs by Chiaki Hayashi popped up on Ravelry showcasing Germantown’s colorwork capabilities. Chiaki Hayashi’s new Germantown Rolled…
Courtney at Vogue Knitting Live: San Francisco!
UPDATE! You can sign up for classes at 50% off using my teacher discount code, TEACHER50 at checkout! View all the VK Live SF class offerings here. This September I’ll be travelling to San Francisco to teach at VK Live! I’ll be teaching my favorite classes, alongside some of the best knitting instructors in the…
Scout Collection: Sawyer
When we released the Luma Collection last year, we had no idea how incredibly popular the Stone Point poncho was going to be. You never know when a pattern is going to “hit,” and this one hit hard! We sold so many copies of this poncho, and it was so awesome to hear from knitters and shop owners about how much…
Scout Collection: Rainier
I tend to be pretty hard on myself when it comes to my designs. By the time the swatching, sketching, knitting, un-knitting, re-knitting, blocking, and finishing happens, the stress of meeting a deadline and time and effort that goes into producing the pattern from start to finish usually leaves me ready to move on and…
Scout Collection: Ballard
Ballard, the second hat in the Scout Collection, is the perfect design for practicing stranded knitting or if you want to play around with color. The design is a mix of classic Setesdal patterns, and no float is longer than three stitches, so each round is easy to memorize. The sample worked up super quickly, so…
Charts: Alternate Colorways
The vast majority of all of our charted patterns use the colors as shown in the sample. This method of charting colorwork works very well for a variety of reasons: it is easy to look at the sample and the chart together to assist you in the knitting, the chart typically works well if printed…
Working From Charts: Colorwork
Part 2 of 4: Working from Charts: Stranded Colorwork Knitting. While most stranded knitting these days is referred to as “Fair Isle” knitting, this is actually a misnomer, as Fair Isle knitting is a very specific type of stranded colorwork originating from the island of Fair Isle. For more information on the terminology regarding the…