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Any fairy tale can come true with the right yarn!!

We’re drifting off with this month’s theme, Once upon a yarn—a candy-coated world where deadlines don’t exist and there’s always more time to cast on for something new.

This year, each of our crates has been made in collaboration with some of your favorite Knit and Crochet influencers!

For February we partnered up with one of our favorite influencers, Glenda, of Creative Grandma.

Glenda launched Creative grandma in 2018 with her daughter. The brand’s goal has always been to connect members of the crochet community through endless inspiration, ideas, and the love of making. The designs and projects that Glenda has created as a professional crochet designer for over 40 years have been long loved by both beginners and experienced crocheters alike.

When planning this month’s Membership offerings, Glenda asked us for something special—something with speckles and a little shine. Together we created some dreamy crates for you all to enjoy, click the video below to watch the full reveal or scroll to check out what’s coming to your stash this month!

KnitCrate Membership Crates:

Audine Wools Shine Sport

This new base is a Sport weight with 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Tencel (350 yd / 320 m, 100 g), $26 USD each. You’ll receive two of the same color in your crate. (pictured from left to right)

Chill Out: Sky

Airy and light, this colorway features cobalt, purple, and sky blue on a natural cream background.

All Natural: Sprout

Like seedlings through snow, this yarn features sage, khaki and brown on a snowy cream base.

Energize Me: Flirt

We’re in love with this cream-based yarn with speckles in orchid, pink and orange.

Patterns:

The Knitting pattern is the Sand Dunes Hat & Handwarmers by Pipa Yarns & Knits. It is pictured here in our All Natural color vibe Sprout. The stretchy texture is created using a cable needle, but there are no stitches crossed. Thanks to the stretchiness of the pattern, the hat and hand warmers will fit a wide range of sizes.

The crochet pattern for this month is the Nora Toque & Fingerless Gloves by Carolyn Carleton. She wanted to create a pattern that would add dimension by including a beautifully textured piece. The alpine stitch is fun and, combined with the linen stitch, accent each other very well. Here we have it in our Chill Out color vibe, Sky.

We also have a very special bonus pattern this month designed by Glenda of Creative Grandma. She loved this yarn so much she created a beautiful crochet scarf in our Energize Me color vibe Flirt. The Dreamscape scarf is an excellent scarf with simple elegance for both men and women. This design uses beautifully textured stitches for a unique style. And don’t get us started on that fun fringe!

Sock Membership Crates: 

Audine Wools’ Luxury Sock

With 75% Superwash Merino, 15% Nylon, 10% Cashmere, (400 yd / 365 m, 100 g), this base makes a comeback in one of our softest Sock Crates this year, $28 USD each. You’ll receive a single color of one of these beautifully dyed skeins in your crate.  (From left to right)

Chill Out: Dew

The softest, whispering green, a promise of winter thaw.

All Natural: Peat

An earthy brown that reminds us that spring is ahead!

Energize Me: Peony

A bright, rosy pink, like cheeks in chilly weather.

Patterns:

The Knit pattern for this month was created by Vanessa Ewing with the Cloudchaser Socks shown here in Peat, our All Natural color vibe. Fluffy clouds of lace puff in-between structured arches of twisted stitches. A billowy textural assortment of delightful stitches will keep your toes cozy into the spring!

For the Crochet pattern, we have the Melon Sorbet Socks by Liz Salazar. They are shown here in the Chill Out color vibe, Dew. The perfect combination of puff and post stitches are intermingled with sturdy single crochet to create these soft and fluffy socks that are both beautiful and functional.

Malabrigo Partner Crate:

Who can resist the buttery softness of Malabrigo’s original yarn, Merino Worsted? This 100% Merino Wool comes from South America ready to be made into the most decadent accessories. With 210 yds / 192 m per 100 g skein, we’ve stuffed three into your crate so you‘ll have hours of Malabrigo enjoyment ahead. This month’s colorway is dreamy and soft, inspired by our mood board, and is called Rosalinda.  

Patterns:

First up we have the Chimera Scarf by our very own Joanna Rankin! Is it a scarfed hat, or a behatted scarf? Any way you look at it, this combo is soft, warm, and dreamily cozy—perfect for the coldest of days that winter might throw your way.

For the Crochet pattern, we have the Perihelion Shawl by Karen Whooly Designs.  This shawl is a one-weekend project! Using worsted weight yarn and a simple-to-learn pattern repeat, this shawl will be a go-to pattern for gifts and yourself. Pair it with jeans for a day of shopping or glam it up to keep those shoulders warm on a chilly night on the town. You will want to make this one over and over again!

This month is extra special and features an extra bonus crochet pattern with the Butterfly Shell Infinity Scarf by Claire Golden. This infinity scarf is long enough to wrap twice around your neck, and wide enough to keep you cozy in the cold. The stitch pattern features a column of eyelets and a column of shells with a shell edging that completes it. The sections of the double crochet allow the color of the yarn to shine. 

Starting this month, we will be keeping all of our extras a surprise! The surprise element of our crates was always our favorite part. Now that we show a sneak peek of the color vibes to give you the opportunity to choose your favorite, we lost that fun for a bit but wanted to bring a part of it back! Once you receive your crate, you’ll be able to enjoy your extra and you can see what others received on our Social Media outlets once the crates start to ship before the middle of the month. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, we’d like to welcome you to step right up and visit a beautiful, vintage-inspired Circus for this month’s KnitCrate themes. It’s finally July and we’re excited to share the glitz, glamour and glitter of this month’s theme, Circus Circus.

This theme is special since it was developed in coordination with KnitCrate member AwkwardKatalyst, who won our So Faded knit-a-long awhile back and got to peek behind the curtain at what goes into designing a KnitCrate. We had a lot of fun working together to come up with not only the theme but a colorway that Kat designed for the Sock Crate (sharing that reveal tomorrow!) 

This is the first month that we’ve offered something new, Color Vibes, which active (in June) members were able to change for their upcoming crates between June 13-25. (The window to change your vibe opens up again on July 20-25 for the August Crates.) This month, you’ll receive one of these three colorways dependent on your vibe settings:

Energize Me: Light Up

Chill Out: Flying Trapeze

All Natural: Pachyderm

Every member will also get a booklet containing the Membership & Sock Membership patterns this month. This month’s Membership Patterns include a pair of handwarmers designed by Hannah Thiessen, Ringleader:

And the crochet pattern, designed by Katie Clary, is a cowl called Risley Cowl

You’ll also get an adorable extra: a sweet little elephant stitch marker with a lobster clasp that can mark your progress in a row or the beginning of your round.

Hello, Knitcrate friends! It’s February and our theme is Good Vibes Only, a wish for 2019 to be better for everyone in our community and beyond, a time of reflection on ourselves and our attitudes, and a call for us to be supportive of each other. We think that the Knitcrate family online does very well in this regard and we are wishing you all happiness this year (we hope to provide a little bit with these great crates, too!) 

The yarn this month is one you know--Halo DK, our popular 50% Alpaca, 30% Wool, and 20% Nylon yarn that was so beloved in the October 2018 crates. Here, it’s appearing in two new colorways: iridescent, glowing green Malachite, and luminous, purple Electric Abalone. Each crate comes with two skeins that feature 236 yards (216 meters) each. 

We love this squishy, soft yarn, and our designers did this month, too! Knitting designer Kiri Fitzgerald has created the stunning Belita scarf, a confection of lace and squishy stitches, plus a unique shape that is fun to style and wear:

Jennifer Hayes, our crochet designer for the month, has also designed something squishy and lovely to wear round the neck! Her shawl Belle Askew seems like a standard triangle shawl at first glance, but has some surprising details, while keeping true to a fun-to-hook texture: 

Can you believe it’s November? This year is flying by fast! We hope that this month’s crates can entice you to slow down for a moment and savor each stitch. We might even say that this month’s Enchanted theme could cast a spell on you!

 It should be no surprise after seeing the mood board that this month is full of jeweltones and precious metals! The yarn this month is shimmery and shiny, too. Sugared Worsted by Uru.Yarn is an extension of our much-loved Sugared Sock, but with a little more heft. This yarn is 70% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon, and 10% Stellina.

There are four colors this month. First up, Roses, a beautifully intense, saturated, rose-purple:

Next, we have Twilight, a rich, cerulean blue:

Then, Gilded, a golden brown that reminds us of aged gold:

And last but never least, a dark navy with deep grey called Wolves:

This month, along with the yarn, you’ll get a brochure that features the two patterns for this crate plus the Membership Sock crate! First up, our crochet designer Jen Dwyer created the beautiful Fruitridge shawl. This elongated triangle features stunning fringe and really shows off those sparkles!

The knitting pattern this month is not just one pattern, but THREE! Sandi Rosner joins us for the Membership Crate and has a set for you featuring the Twinkle Hat, Twinkle Mitts, and Twinkle Cowl:

We told you guys you wouldn’t feel like you were getting less with this booklet! That’s five patterns (including Sock Membership), plus some other in-booklet goodies we can’t wait to share. We think this crate is highly likely to sell out quickly like last month’s, so make sure you sign up while it’s still available. Then, come hang out with us in the Ravelry thread to see the shipments as they arrive! 

August, for us, is the turning curve of summertime. It’s still hot in North America, and has no sign of stopping, but there’s something about a return to school for the children, teachers, and college students, that makes us think that Autumn, that eternally perfect crafting season, is right around the corner. 

It's the third day of August and the first day of reveals, starting as usual with MEMBERSHIP CRATE. This month's theme, *Indigo Glow*, is all about stunning oceanic tones, deep teals, seashell pinks and stonewashed grays. For Membership, you'll be getting one of these four stunning colors (two skeins in your shipment) on our Uru.Yarn Speckled Singles base:

Colors (from left/bottom to right/top):  Undertow: a bright cerulean blue with red, burgundy and purple speckles Highlight: a soft seafoam with magenta speckles Shibori: an indigo, denim blue with true blue speckles Silence: a misty gray with black speckles

This yarn is 417 yards (381 meters), fingering weight, and is singles spun. Even though it is 100% Superwash Merino, the best way to care for it is a hand-wash and lay flat to dry. Think of the superwash more as insurance in case someone in your family throws it in the wash--singles yarns are delicate and would prefer to be washed gently!

You might notice something new with our box photo this month--the card looks different! That's because the card is not a card, but a *brochure*. After many, many requests, we've decided to include printed patterns in all of our shipments. Don't worry, Ravelry fans--nothing is happening to the download codes! In fact, they're more accessible and easy to find than ever in this brochure. The brochures will also include more information on your designers (and dyers and extras, for the Artisan Crates)! We think you're going to love them.

The patterns this month are gorgeous and both are worked in Undertow. Caribbean Escape is an expansive crochet shawl with epic fringe, designed by Jennifer Dickerson:

Gullywasher is a triangle shawl with great texture, designed by Carissa Browning, is named for a riotous downpour (and is probably the perfect thing to knit through those end of summer thunderstorms)!

Bright, modern, and fun, this month’s theme Ice Scream is a play on the children’s rhyme: you scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream! While this month’s color palette would certainly result in some pretty crazy flavors, it makes for a very exciting jumping off point for a pop of color in your crate. If you haven’t already, discuss this month’s board in the Ravelry group, and make sure you sign up for one of our crates so you don’t miss out on the fun. 

Patio Stones pattern preview (on Curiousity.ca)

My yarn subscription for this year is the Made Here Yarn Club 2020 from Sincere Sheep, which was a splurge but one I could afford and one that focuses on local makers. Pretty cool! I decided to make up my own pattern (after getting partway through a lovely hat and realizing I wasn’t feeling it). … Continue reading →