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, too, really like Heart Deco and in the color that the sample was knit, too.
I would choose flights of color first!
I think I’d try Flights of Colour because I haven’t done color changes like that before and I’d like to try that technique. Beautiful garments!
It’s a toss up between Flight of Colour and Umbra! I love Louise’s pattern. They are always fun to knit and so imaginative in design.
I love all the patterns, but would love to knit Yarn Tamer. I have several skeins of the yarns she mentions – the kinds I look at later and love, but aren’t real sure what to do with them.
I also love Umbra because I love working those wonderful chunky cables. So much fun and they look so warm and cozy. (And people think you’re a genius when you knit cables, yet they are so easy!)
Flights of Colour suits my fancy!
I think Flights of Colour would be my first knit!
Really like color trail.
HA!! I am a Gemini & a knitter, I’d probably cast on ALL of them at the same time!! Be nice to de-stash a little!!!
I love knitting cables and Shadowlines would be the first I’d probably try!
I love them all! It would be difficult to choose which to knit first.
Would really love this great looking book.
I would do Colour Trail! I love the texture the stitches are providing! And what a nice snuggle of a shawl!
Hard to pick just one! My first two must knits would be Flight of Colour and/or Yarn Tamer.
I love Flight of Colour. I love to play with color combinations and this has tons of possibilities. Also looks nice and cozy to wrap up in.
Colour Trail is beautiful! I have lots of multi yarns that would knit up great for this one!!
Flights of Color
I would make the heart deco one.
Resonate- I love me some Old Shale lace!
All about Heart Deco, that is a beautiful cowl. Love it, I have the perfect TLE yarn I have been saving for just this beautiful project.
Flights of color looks intriguing but I also like the heart Deco cowl.
They are all lovely but I particularly like Shadow Lines; it looks so squishably decadent.
Yarn Tamer is my favorite!
Shadowlines is gorgeous!! & love the pattern too!
Shadowlines is beautiful!! & love the pattern too!
I am intrigued by Yarn Tamer
I would knit Shadowlines first. There is just something about those cables that I love.
Shadowlines looks so squishably soft!
Wow, though choice, but today I would go with Shadowlines – with it getting cold it looks the perfect amount of squish.
Flights of colour looks fun! And warm.
Suzie
Whoissittingnexttoawindowandwishesshe’dwornascarf!
ohhh Shadowlines is gorgeous w/those cables that look like giant stockinette stitches!!! already picking what yarns this would be made of!
I love the Shadowlines pattern!
I’d make Colour Trail as my first pattern. I love the variety of design stitches. And it’s an intermediate pattern so I might be able to make it!
I would choose Umbra, as I have a beautiful skein of Three Iris Girls that would look great in this!
Thanks to you both for the contest!
I love cables, and the Shadowlines shawl looks so cuddly. Love it.
Definitely flights of color!
Color Trail would be my choice. Love the multis.
I would definitely make the Flights of Colour first….as pictured in red, black, and gray….one of my favorite color combinations.
I’ve had my eye on this book since the first few patterns posted to Ravelry. Great patterns for all those special skeins of sock yarn I’ve got floating around!
Oh, and I should pick one pattern…hard choice! Colour Trail is my favorite right now, because it will look equally striking in a mostly solid or a heavily variegated.
Hi!! I would like to knit up Color Trail.. Like working with variegated yarns. Hean
Affinity and yarn tamer are totally up my alley!
flight’s of color! so pretty!!
I love the Yarn Tamer pattern. Some of the hand dyed yarns are really challenging, I’m sure this would solve that!
Affinity!
Flights of Color is so lovely!
I love heart deco!
You know I would love to knit the shadowlines for a Syrian refugee.
I love the Heart Deco pattern but would probably go with the Yarn Tamer. I have a lot of wild, variegated yarn in my stash!
I really like flight of colour
LOVE Louise’s patterns. I have a Knit Night going right now ! I don’t know which one I would do first if I won the book – the fun of ponderance – oops I guess that isn’t a read word. have a great week ! Mel