Quince & co 2015 shawls lookbook

2015 Shawls

table of contents in tro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 5 jan uar y skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 - 9 c re sc en t c ables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 - 1 3 jon i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 - 1 7 c ave poin t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 - 2 1 pagoda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 - 2 5 de sign er bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 - 3 2

For the love of shawls—that’s why this collection.

Funny, isn’t it, how this most lovely accessory began as a most practical item. In days and decades before central heating, a shawl was a quicker-than-sleeves garment to keep handy, ready to wrap and warm up in.

Call me a romantic, but I like to think of the hundreds---no, thousands---of women knitting away, perhaps by candlelight, making their simple triangles. And not content with everyday stockinette or garter stitch, they added texture patterns, eyelets in various arrangements, lace edgings learned from their mothers, a bit of color.

Always inventive, always finding a way to adorn the utilitarian.

I’m proud to be a knitter. I love that I can enjoy the experience of yarn moving through fingers, looping over needles, a piece piling into my lap as I work. I love the feeling of competence, too. And when I’m done, here is something pretty and useful that didn’t exist before. Every stitch a moment in my life.

I don’t know of any other kind of knitting, except (for me) mitts, that is as satisfying as the making of a shawl.

Gauge isn’t a stresser, a shawl will always fit whoever it was intended for. And I can tailor the color, the stitches, the shape to my heart’s desire.

Our annual Shawl Week for 2015 is a particularly lovely way, I think, to demonstrate the versatility of this humble piece. Here’s what you’ll find herein: • January Skies (Melanie Berg) combines colors in bold patterned stripes.

• Crescent Cables (Veera Välimäki) pulls together cables, garter stitch, and intermittent stripes in sweeping patterns.

• Joni (Bristol Ivy) is a modern garter stitch shawl whose stripes start and stop unexpectedly.

• Cave Point (Paula Emons-Fuessle) mixes workaday garter ridges with pretty, pointed lace.

• And Pagoda (Dawn Catanzaro) is elegant in its simplicity and shows what the thoughtful arrangement of a single eyelet pattern can accomplish.

To learn more about these shawls’ designers, see the end of this book and visit our blog.

May you wrap yourself in beloved stitches.

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january skies by melanie berg

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January Skies yarn: chickadee colors: peacock, frost, aleutian, belize, & bird’s egg

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crescent cables by veera v채lim채ki

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Crescent Cables yarn: lark colors: damson & iceland

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joni by bristol ivy

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Joni yarn: chickadee colors: clay & iceland

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cave point

by paula emons-fuessle

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Cave Point yarn: chickadee color: lichen

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pagoda by dawn catanzaro

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Pagoda yarn: tern color: iron

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Shawl Designers / 2015

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Melanie Berg I’m Melanie and in my real life I’m a former IT specialist, mother of three and a semi-successful housewife. In my secret second life I design knitwear. I live with my husband and three children in Bonn, Germany, where I spend my time combining colors, shapes and textures into freewheeling designs that are uniquely my own. I’ve been published by yarn companies and knitting magazines large and small, and I’ve also selfpublished my own patterns and e-books. I love collaborating with creative types from all over the world.

On Ravelry: Mairlynd Website/blog: mairlynd.de

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Veera Valimaki I live and design in Southern Finland. I love simple—yet modern—knits that are easy to wear year after year. I’m a master of casting on for new sweaters, and I adore garter stitch and all kinds of short rows. The majority of my work is selfpublished. And my knits have been featured in magazines and books in Finland, Europe, and the US. You can follow my process in knitting at the sites below: On Ravelry: Veera Blog: 100-rain.blogspot.fi Website: www.rainknitwear.com

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Bristol Ivy I’m a knitting designer from Portland, Maine. My work focuses on the intersection of innovative technique and classic tailoring, and has been published with Brooklyn Tweed, PomPom Quarterly, Knitscene, knit.purl, amirisu, and many more.

On Ravelry: Bristol Ivy

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Paula Emons-Fuessle I’m passionate about knitting. I host the audio podcast, Knitting Pipeline, which is available on iTunes and on the show blog, www.knittingpipeline.com. I host four knitting retreats each year where other passionate knitters make new friends. When I’m not knitting, I enjoy playing bagpipes in a competition band, observing birds and butterflies, reading, walking, and quilting. I live with my husband by the woods in Central Illinois where we enjoy nature every single day.

On Ravelry: PrairiePiper Website/blog: www.knittingpipeline.com

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Dawn Catanzaro I am a sometime indie designer making my home at the very edge of beautiful Portland, Maine. By day I work as Pattern Developer for Quince & Co, and by night I knit into the wee hours, getting pestered by my irksome kitten. On Ravelry: DCatanzaro

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Many thanks to: Bliss in Portland, Maine, for lending us great, great things for styling; Manaan Alexander, our model, who stood straight and tall in the wind; Dawn Catanzaro for trucking up to New Harbor to help with everything and then some at the shoot; Jerusha Robinson and Dawn Catanzaro for tech editing, proofing, working with the designers, and generally producing this collection.

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