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CHRISTINE BOGGIS AND SOPHIE AXTELL EXPLORE THE LATEST LAUNCHES
SHAWLS, WRAPS & SCARVES
Louisa HardingAt Knitting magazine we can’t get
enough of Louisa Harding’s gorgeously
romantic, intricate and elegant designs,
and her latest collection of 21 shawls,
wraps and scarves is just the ix we
needed. The book is divided into three
sections: shaped shawls, rectangular
wraps and scarves. For each one
Louisa shares her inspiration, which
she is constantly gathering in sketches
and photographs of the world around
her. Most of the designs are knitted in
Louisa’s Yarntelier cashmere yarn, which
comes in 4 ply-weight Cashmere Lace
and DK-weight Cashmere Gilli. But in
a few of the designs Louisa has paired
her own yarns with others, including
Townhouse Yarns Abbey Lace in the
delicate Osprey Wispy Feather Wrap,
Woollenflower Whorl in the stunning
Ginerva Unfurling Hearts Wrap and
Kettle Yarn Co Hythe in the softly hazy
Florie Give My Heart Scarf. Favourite
makes include the intricate Lalita Frost
Flower Lace Scarf, made from just one
ball of Yarntelier Cashmere Lace, the
beautiful Fairisle-patterned Raizel Paisley
Wrap and glamorous Eventhe Delicate
Beaded Shawl, a triangular shawl knitted
from the bottom up, and again made
from just one ball of Cashmere Lace. This
is a must buy for all you fellow addicted
shawl knitters out there! CB
£16, yarntelier.com20
WA R M H A NDS
Edited by Jeanette Sloan
and Kate Davies
This collaboration between Scotland-
based designer, author and yarn brand
owner Kate Davies and Jeanette Sloan,
founder of BIPOC in Fiber, which aims to
highlight the work of Black, Indigenous
and People of Colour, was born out of
the heated debate around race which
has rocked the knitting, yarn and ibre
community both online and beyond over
the past year.
In response, Jeanette and Kate set
out to create as diverse a collection of
mitten designs as they could. They issued
an open call for submissions via Ravelry
and Instagram, and publicly encouraged
new and unpublished BIPOC talent to
enter. Seven of the 125 designs submitted
through the open process have been
published in the book, while the remaining
eight were commissioned from new and
established designers whose individual
aesthetics were considered to strengthen
the collection.
The book ’s presentation is just as
inclusive as its design process, with the
mittens photographed on a range of
diferent models including BIPOC, with
fresh, youthful styling. Patterns are clearly
spelt out in a series of steps and feature
plenty of charts and diagrams. All the
designs are in Kate Davies’ yarns, and
favourite makes include Steve Malcolm’s
Opera long-length cabled gauntlets,
delicate lace and cable ingerless mitts
Mudra by Lana Jois and Jeanette’s own
colourful cover stars, To a s t y C o s y. CB
£20, KDD & Co