New Season Cotton 4ply Shades

We've introduced four new shades to our mercerised ply cotton collection. The knitshop.co.uk team have been busy researching this year's trends and colour must-haves and we've developed these four beautiful colours to add to our yarn selection.

Rose Pink, Electric Blue, Canary Yellow and Pumpkin Orange are all welcome additions and we're sure you have a key project this year that will deserve a bold and intense colour such as these.

Mercerised cottons are popular for their finish and lustre but also for it's strength and how successfully it dyes, which is how we've achieved these intense shades. Knitshop's mercersied come in fabulous ranges of colours from primary colours to more unusual colours that can really help make knitting and crochet projects more personal and bespoke.

We offer around 15 shades in the cotton 4ply including scarlet, leaf green, coral pink and silver. These new colours will certainly war-up the collection and the shop is certainly bursting with colour at the moment!

Rose Pink
This light and yet hearty pink is ideal for girl projects from baby knits to girls hats, boleros, and more. The girls here are loving the pink option, of course, and we have a variety of projects underway with this pink cotton involved. We suggest blending it with the Pumpkin Orange.

Electric Blue
We know this blue will be used widely within projects as it is bang on trend this 2012. A very bold yarn, if you're not confident about using this within projects, perhaps think about using it as a stripe and not a block colour. We think this would be suitable for many of Susan Crawfords vintage knit patterns found in A Stitch In Time volume I and II.

Pumpkin Orange
Another trendy colour for the season, we just love this new addition. Almost sour, this again is intense and bold but fantastic to brighten darker shades such as greys, silvers and charcoals. A very uni-sex colour, we think it's an all round success!

Canary Yellow
Who does not like yellow? This is such a beautiful shade of yellow, it takes all the best of yellow and pours it all onto this cotton. Bright, intense, cheerful, what more do you want for a yarn. We suggest Tropicana by Just Call me Ruby.

The mercerised cotton 4ply is sold in pull out skeins of 50grams at just £3.90 for each ball!

Cotton Special offer:
£2.90 per ball if you buy 20 per colour or more. And £3.00 off if you buy 10 per colour online!

Keen to get stuck in and use these new yarns? We have a perfect pattern for you. The Lily Jacket pattern is available instore and soon online. A girly jacket, all the girls here are desperate to use the Rose Pink!

The Lily Jacket pattern designed by Meg Crowther from the knitshop.co.uk was first seen in Knit Magazine last year. We've been inundated with keen knitters writing in with images of their Lily Jacket project knitted up with our Mercerised cotton. Julieta's colour choice: bordeaux, oyster and pastel pink, making the jacket rather smart-looking. We're keen for more knitters to try their hand at the pattern and incorporate the new yarns.

Best of luck with the 4ply mercersied cotton!

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Rose pink
Electric blue
Pumpkin orange
Canary yellow
Cotton 4ply Collection

Interweave Magazines

Knitting and Crochet Magazines new to knitshop.co.uk

New to knitshop.co.uk are the Interweave Magazines offering a variety of reads including Knitscene, Knits and Crochet. We are offering several issues from all these stunning magazine series.

These quality glossy magazines are informative and provide a fresh view to the knitting and crochet art. The knitshop.co.uk team is particularly keen on the creative opportunities featured across the magazines offering plenty of projects and opportunities to knitters and crocheters to get involved, start new projects and improve their skills.

We are also keen on the technical aspect, these magazines offer lots of advice on developing techniques and including them in projects making the most of your knitting and crochet needles and adding a contemporary feel to your knitting and crochet.

The suggested yarns are all available at the knitshop.co.uk or we can advise on something similar to what the projects offer. We recommend these magazines as gift subscriptions or for treats to keep knitters and crocheters in the loop.

Crochet by Interweave

This seasonal magazine offers in each edition at least 20 projects to get your needles into. These well explained and illustrated projects are for all levels of crochet and will challenge anyone's fingers and needles. Techniques are explained and developed in a lovely section dedicated to improving crochet techniques. These should encourage crocheters to pick-up their needle and yarn and to experiment not just with the technique, but how to hold needles and yarn and more.

Available form just £4.99, four times a year, this will certainly keep you entertained throughout the seasons.

Knitscene by Interweave

Knitscene delves into the finer points of knitting focusing on technique, easing your knitting experience and making sure you become a confident and comfortable knitter.

Issued every season, four times a year, this magazine is filled with amazing tips and step-by-step advice for techniques that can be practised and applied to further projects. The magazine also includes several new contemporary designs and projects to get your knitting needles moving and get you occupied during that particular season.

The magazine has a fabulous social atmosphere with letters from knitters and discussions to get involved in and get you thinking.

The magazine explores every aspect of knitting from techniques, to finishes to complete patterns and various methods of knitting. A lovely all round magazine that we strongly recommend for any knitting fanatic.

Knits by Interweave

Similar to Knitscene by Interweave this magazine also focuses on techniques through step-by-step articles and projects within the magazine. Quarterly, this magazine takes a more traditional angle looking at historical knitting and bringing it into the modern world.

Both magazines are worth a browse and we feel that the strength in their projects and advice will sway your decision as to which one suits you that season. From just £5.99, it's not a sin to get hold of both magazines to really get your knitting juices flowing.

Enjoy!

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Knit scene Magazine & Interweave Knits 

Interweave Crochet