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Pattern Inspiration: Pretty Leaves Cowl

The colorful plumage of birds always inspires and captivates our attention. Malabrigo Yarns colorway Maricabo (custom dyed for us on their luxurious Silkpaca base) does more than catch our visual attention; it also delights our hands with the combination of alpaca and silk in a delicate lace weight. What a perfect yarn for Stephanie Voyer’s ‘Pretty Leaves Cowl’ pattern!

The rich, iridescent colors combined with the repeating lace pattern remind us of the feathers of the Glittering Bellied Emerald hummingbird native to Uruguay. Wow! Wearing this cowl will be like placing jewels around your neck and shoulders for an evening out. Catching attention with color, pattern and favorite little black dress your evening is sure to take flight!

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February 2019 Malabrigo Partner Crate Reveal

It’s time to reveal what’s coming in this quarter’s Malabrigo Partner Crate.

First, let’s talk about the yarn. We love this vibrant, beautiful, exciting colorway from Malabrigo. Anniversario is a rainbow yarn that doesn’t feel too bright or overwhelming: you’ll find yellow, green, purple, pink, teal, blue and everything in between within, but they all harmonize so beautifully in the finished fabric that it’s truly a great example of the dyeing artistry of this brand. On deliciously soft, 100% Superwash Merino Mechita, two skeins gives you 840 yards of fingering weight to play with.

Each skein is unique, so we recommend either embracing the drastic change from skein to skein within your project (totally possible with this month’s patterns), or alternate your skeins every row or round to blend them together.

The knitting pattern this month was designed especially for this colorway and comes from another project I worked with Malabrigo on, Malabrigo Heritage. We’re featuring Celebracion, a cowl designed by Sabine Engel: 

The crochet pattern, Excitations, was designed by Aimée Hansen! I asked Aimee what she would do with this beautiful, colorful yarn and this exquisite wrap is the best result we could have asked for. Truly a WOW statement piece that is crocheted on the bias:

The extra in this month’s partner crate is one of three colors of a fabulous, iridescent-metallic notions case. You’ll either get silver, hot pink, or electric blue:

We love these types of pouches for holding my notions and needles (especially double points) on the go, and they fit nicely inside larger project bags or drawstring bags to keep everything organized.

Also, we have a very cool bonus for members from Malabrigo--15% off the Malabrigo Heritage e-book with a special code that is included on the download page for members (there’s a postcard in your box with this URL.)

This month we had a little issue with printing and weren’t able to get the yarn and samples all in the same place to be photographed before the books had to be turned in, so hopefully this gift makes up for not having a physical book in this crate (something we typically include).

Join us on Ravelry to chat about this great crate! 

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August 2019 Malabrigo Partner Crate Reveal

We’re having a little video technical difficulty this month, so will be linking the reveal video in a later post!

It’s time for August’s Malabrigo Partner Crate reveal! This month, our theme was Take Wing, inspired by birds, feathers, and sky. For this month’s Malabrigo Partner Crate, we’ve taken inspiration from the airy quality of this theme and chosen Malabrigo Silkpaca as the featured yarn, and had it dyed in the beautiful iridescent colorway Maricabo. This colorway is not typically available on this base from Malabrigo and has been special-ordered just for us! 

Each crate also features two patterns, one knit and one crochet, from designers Stephanie Voyer and Katya Novikova. You can explore these delicate designs as we move through the month and do inspiration posts here on the blog for each! 

Since this month’s skeins are 50 g each and tons of yardage as a laceweight yarn, we’ve doubled up your crate with some premium extras! First, we have this custom-designed KnitCrate Rainbow Logo Pin, backed with a silicone backer that won’t snag projects or knits: 

We’ve also worked with Crafty Cat Knitty Bits to give you a set of beautiful, glass leaf stitch markers in a variety of iridescent colors (your colors may vary, quantity for each set is 6 markers). 

Find out what other members are saying about this crate in the Ravelry group, or join us on Facebook and Instagram this month as we break down each beautiful item included!