Designers' Corner

Jenny Watson
Spring Summer 2010

Designers Corner Spring/Summer 2010 With winter over we can look forward to the summer time and attention is turned to the fabulous yarns produced for the Spring/Summer season. This year I have published six new books for this Spring/ Summer Season, all highlighting the fabulous range of yarns and colours produced for Knitting Fever. The inspiration for my first book for this season is Catwalk 2 Collection. These garments have been designed with high fashion in mind, all the items look great worn with the latest fashion accessories, bringing the catwalk look directly to you. Together with some classic stitch detail and elegant shapes this collection is a fantastic, versatile ... [read more...]

Elsebeth Lavold
Spring/Summer 2011

A new season, a new book and a new yarn!  The Lazy Days Collection is a collection of easy summer knits, mostly the kind that does not demand constant attention, although there are a few of those, too. The designs are mostly classical with a twist, many of them on the feminine side. For a lot of them, the main part of the knitting is very straightforward, but with a more demanding detail, i.e. the neck edging of the design Dee, the neck treatment and cap sleeves of Mae and Jenna, the unique shell pattern on Shelley & Sheila or the rounded hemline of Glenda. Once you're done with the beautiful and unusual lace pattern, the rest of Dinah knits up quickly and Norah offers the ... [read more...]

Debbie Bliss
Winter 2010-11

Winter has always been my favourite time of the year,I like my heat to come from roaring fires and hot chocolate, with the promise of my December birthday and Christmas just around the corner.I couldn't have been more happy then to shoot three of my new books in the snow laden landscape of Poland,even though the temperatures were sometimes minus eleven! Glen is a collection of 12 designs that features one of my new yarns .Glen is quite a departure for me as I tend to stay with classic yarns, but I fell in love with it's subtle shaded effect when I saw it at the Pitti Filatti trade show in Florence last year.To show off the beauty of the yarn I have kept to simple shapes with simple ... [read more...]

Leanne Prouse (Ella Rae)
Ella Rae Spring-Summer 2010

It's always exciting when the seasons change and you've been knitting with winter weight yarns then you start working on summer projects with lighter yarns and brighter colors...the same applies to designing...I love switching to summer designs and looking at all the bright colors that are like jewels..it's uplifting to know sunny days will be upon us. For Spring/Summer 10, we have 2 gorgeous colorful books released. Book 19 ' Shades of Paradise' featuring beautiful colors and yarns from the summer range. Introducing 'Milky Soft', a blend of cotton and milk fibers in a delicious palette of colors. We also added some more jewely colors to the existing range of Bamboo silk. Book ... [read more...]

Jane Ellison
Spring 2010 Update

 For this Spring Summer I have designed Noro Kids, Araucania Summer Fruits and five booklets for Mirasol. Which means this is the most books I have ever done in one season, seven!   My Mirasol Books This is because there has seen an exciting change in the Mirasol books. We have changed the format of the books from a big book to small booklets. The physical size of the books may be smaller but the content will be the same or even more exciting! I love this idea and have enjoyed working with my layout designer to create a look that is fun. My first thought was to mirror the labels on the yarn with the size of the book and the cover is the same shade as the labels of that ... [read more...]

Louisa Harding
Fall/Winter 2011

Renaissance, meaning ‘rebirth’ symbolized an aesthetic revolution in the cultural development of Art and Literature during the 14th - 17th Centuries in Europe. The story of the Renaissance began in Florence, Italy and where my inspiration for this seasons yarn and pattern collections began to unravel.I view this season as a small Renaissance of the Louisa Harding collection. The yarn range has been refined, with extremely exciting developments in the addition of new yarns, the pattern collections more focused, inspired visually by images from the ‘Renaissance’ and also by the ethics of a clear perspective. This season I am introducing three new yarns, Nerissa, an ... [read more...]