Kim Hargreaves’ fans will be excited to hear that her new book, Touching Elegance, is now available.

Here are a few of my favourites from Touching Elegance.  More photos can be seen on the website.

Twilleys Freedom Purity is a wonderful new ‘Eco’ yarn. This soft yarn is available in natural, earthy colours which are formed by the careful blending of natural undyed wool with alpaca. The hypo-allergenic qualities of the Alpaca combine with the Virgin wool to create a beautiful high quality yarn that is just fabulous to knit with; creating one of the finest chunky yarns on the market.  At just £3.10 a ball, it’s excellent value too.

Twilleys Freedom Purity

There are some really nice patterns for the Purity yarn as well, some available as individual pattern sheets (£2.50) and others in a booklet which contains 12 designs (£6.50).  Look at the shop website for more pictures and details of the patterns.

Twilleys Freedom Purity pattern book 466

The latest issue of Interweave Knits arrived today and it features 27 knitting projects just right for the Autumn.

Explore eight different variations on knitted plaid; rediscover heritage techniques; dress up simple stitches with fun details; try out some twisted and traveling motifs; and deconstruct intriguingly architectural knits.

Pick up your copy over in our shop and start planning your Autumn projects.

Another of Rowan’s new knitting pattern books for this Autumn is Rowan Homestead Classics by Martin Storey.

Rowan Homestead Classics

Rowan Homestead Classics is a rustic collection of 15 designs inspired by the crafts and textiles of the American pioneer. Ethnic and geometric intarsia, folkloric textures and homespun cabling contrast with more simple, stocking stitch designs, all fashioned in an autumnal palette of damson, plum, electric blue and spruce green using Lima, Alpaca Cotton and Baby Alpaca DK.

You can see more from Rowan Homestead Classics on our website.

Winter Drift is one of Rowan’s new knitting pattern books for Autumn 2010.

Rowan Winter Drift

Winter Drift contains 15 designs for men and women showcasing the new Rowan Drift yarn alongside the longstanding favourite Big Wool. Big, chunky, easy to wear knits range from heavily textured men’s knits through to cute, simple cropped knits for women.  And it’s just £7.95.

These are just a few of the patterns in this book.  More pictures can be seen on the shop website.

We had lots of deliveries today and the first to tell you about is Rowan Magazine 48.  If you pre-ordered your copy from us, then it’s in the post already.  If you didn’t pre-order, do not fear – we still have some copies, but they are selling fast.

Rowan Knitting and Crochet Magazine 48

I think this is one of my favourite of the Rowan Magazines.  I absolutely love the Russian Doll story which were inspired by the romantic folkloric designs painted on historic matryoshka nesting dolls. Highly patterned colorwork in the form of florals, fairisle stripes and tartan checks make each design a masterpiece. I think I’m going to try one of the scarf patterns.

The other two stories are Nomad which focuses on the key fall fashion trends of chunky, exaggerated cables and textured stitches and Timeless which features one-color knits and classic styles that look equally good on young and mature women.

When the Spring 2010 issue of Knitscene magazine was published, knitters went crazy and I’d never seen a magazine snapped up so quickly.  Well the Knitscene Autumn 2010 issue will be hitting the shops in a couple of weeks and so that knitters don’t miss out, we’re accepting pre-orders of what promises to be another popular issue.

Knitscene Fall 2010

Details of how to pre-order and preview pictures of this issue’s designs can be found here on our website.

Pictures from Rowan Studio 20 pattern book are now available on our website.  Patterns use Rowan Pima Cotton and Denim.

Rowan Studio 20

It’ll be here in early July.

As part of the Rowan Studio pattern collection, Rowan release two extra free knitting patterns to download from their website.  These are the two which are part of Rowan Studio 19.

Firstly Mint, a delicate sweater made from Kidsilk Haze.

Mint from Rowan Studio 19

And this is Ice, knitted in Rowan Siena.

Download them free from Rowan’s website.

Rowan Studio 19 has just arrived!

Rowan Studio 19 is inspired by the fresh pastel shades seen up and down the Spring/Summer 2010 catwalks. Light-weight floaty layers in sherbert shades and lace are this issue’s key themes, created in kidsilk haze and siena.  Designs are by Grace Melville.