Our designer friend Louise (who does Inspiration Knits patterns and has designed for our Giftables Club) has published her first book! Called Knit Play Colour, it is full of wonderful designs and ways to adapt them when you want to “play” with the pattern a bit and make it more your own. Lots of options and choices. For more about Louise, you can read the Designer Spotlight blog post that we did on her last year. One thing about Louise – she is always thinking up great new variations for her patterns, and this book showcases that.
I found several “must make that” patterns as I was going through the book. Here are just a few of my favorites:
Flights of Colour (I love patterns that use more than one color. It’s fun to come up with different combinations):
Colour Trail (This looks like a great pattern for multi-color yarn. And I always have a lot of that.):
Shadowlines (That just looks luscious to wrap up in, doesn’t it?):
Heart Deco (Pretty cowl and cool heart design in there.):
Louise has offered to give one of our blog readers a free e-book copy. Just leave a comment below and tell us which pattern you’d pick first out of the book (see the patterns here and/or buy yourself or a friend a copy at this link). We’ll draw a name next week to win the free copy.
Sheri whohasatoknitlistthatcontinuestogrowinleapsandbounds
(all photos copyrighted by Jesse Wild, used with permission)
I’d love to try Shadowlines.
Heart Deco would be my pick!
The first pattern I would make is Trailblazer; I have the perfect skein of yarn for it (purchased from TLE, of course).
I would do the Heart Deco first. Flights of Color would be second.
Flights of color. Have to say hard to pick just one! Beautiful
Shadowlands or flights of color are my first choices! They are lovely!
Shadowlines or flights of color are my first choices! They are lovely! (Fat finger phone typiiing messed up before.)
Yarn Tamer–but the whole collection looks grand!
I love the Colour Trail 🙂
I would love to knit the Flights of Colour first. They are all beautiful patterns but I like the multi colors of this one.
shadowlines is stunning.
Shadowlines would be my first knit because it *does* look luscious and just my style.
Love them off would love to do color trails!
I love Yarn Tamer with Colour Trail a close second! 🙂
I love Heart Deco! This would be the perfect Christmas gift for my mom! 🙂
I’d try “Colour Trail” because it would be my first try at knitting with more than one colored skein!
I think I’d make Flight of Colour first…but I don’t think that’d be the last one I’d cast on … love the patterns!
tough choice as they are all so nice. Think I would make Heart Deco first.
Heart Deco is stunning in red
I think it would have to be Shadowlines. Really beautiful!
I’d start with Flight of Colour or Colour Trail.
Heart Deco
Heart Deco
I would start with Affinity. Wouldn’t it look good in Wollmeise multi and solid?
Flights of color……choosing the color combos is really exciting.
Definitely Colour Trail! I’m a sucker for striped wraps. 🙂
I would definitely start with Yarn Tamer and then move onto Shadowlines
Love all of these! Hard to choose. Colour Trail would be my first pick.
Yarn tamer or trailblazer are lovely.
I am in love with “Heart Deco”!
Flight of color would be my first knit!
Definitely Heart Deco for all my sisters. I see it in ballerina pink!
I love Flights of Colour! I could see that made up in so many beautiful color combinations!!
Heart Deco would be the first on my needles
Flight of Color, I think, although they are all pretty neat!
Umm…one? What about those of us with start-itis and have several concurrent projects? I think I would start with Flights of Colour and quickly add another…
Yarntamer – definitely – love it. And I already have yarn for it!
shadowlines looks heavenly, can think of several friends to make and wrap up for a first day of winter gift!
I love the shadow lines and colour trail. I would probably start with one of those.
Heart Deco!
Colour Trail looks gorgeous in that Amber Trinket colorway
I’m loving Flights of Colour!!
Absolutely love Shadowlines! Such lovely cables…
It’s so difficult to choose! I guess the first one I would knit would be Flight of Colour!
I like flights of colour !
Very tough choice – SO many beauties! Flights of Color would be a fun one to start with.
I love Color Trail.
Heart Deco for sure!
Ooh, sounds like a lovely e-book. I’d pick the Heart Deco pattern first out of this book.
I would knit Flights of Colour first