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BLISSFUL SAPHIA
Debbie Bliss has added a fabulous new yarn to her range, called Saphia, which is a wonderfully soft blend of baby alpaca, Merino wool and linen produced in Peru. It knits up to a chunky weight on 8mm needles, and comes in a palette of 14 sophisticated shades.
Debbie has designed a range of knitting patterns to showcase the yarn, all with an easygoing style and smart stitch patterns. ‘Lourdes’ is a cowl-neck textured sweater with a modern high/low front and back, and ‘Nuno’ is a rollneck sweater with a textured stripe pattern. Cable designs include a yoked sweater, a shawl-collar V-neck sweater, a smart jacket and a honeycomb cable pullover.
The yarn costs £13.50 per 100m/100g, and pattern PDFs are £3.50 each.
www.lovecrafts.com
Rustic beauty
Life in the Long Grass’s new Woolly Worsted is woollen-spun in Donegal and hand-dyed in 16 warm shades
www.litlg.com
Brooklyn Tweed’s new yarn, Arbor Lodge, is a bouncy chunky-weight spun from American Targhee wool. It’s available in 12 vibrant colours and an undyed cream, and new patterns using Arbor Lodge are available from the BT website. 114m per 100g skein.
www.brooklyntweed.com
COLOURFUL HOME
Scandinavian design duo Arne and Carlos have a new pattern book filled with bright, beautiful cushions inspired by Nordic textiles. Published by Rowan, Homeware has six cushions knitted in Rowan’s Norwegian Wool, and there’s a mixture of geometric stranded colourwork patterns and bold intarsia floral motifs - our favourite is the rose-patterned ‘Trine’ design. There’s also a pattern for a crochet blanket. E-book £6 from www.knitrowan.com
Coast & Country
by Sirdar
Head outdoors in style with the new range of patterns from Yorkshire yarn company Sirdar. The Coast & Country collection has relaxed sweaters and cardigans taking inspiration from the British countryside.
Colourwork projects include a long tartan cardigan, a seamless sweater with a Fair Isle yoke, simple striped designs, and an intarsia tank top with a stylised landscape pattern.
The ‘Woodland Walk’ colourblock poncho has a collar and a zipped neck opening, and the roll-neck ‘Hedgerow Sweater’ uses embroidery embellishments to enhance its intarsia patterning. Other projects include ribbed sweaters and a marled cardigan with a wide
