Yesterday I walked out the front door of my apartment building and got about five steps before I stopped suddenly and realized…. I needed a scarf! For the first time since early Spring, I had an urge to don knits out of necessity. What a wonderful day it was! The second time I walked out the front door I savored the chill and ended up spending much more time out in the city than I have in quite some time.
The arrival of Fall this week (not on the calendar, but in feel) seemed like the perfect timing too, since we’ve been working hard behind the curtain to bring you a collection of designs inspired by this time of year. I’m happy to share with you BT FALL 11, a collection of 16 handknitting patterns.
This season I’m joined by designers Leila Raabe and Michele Wang (you’ve seen work from both of them in our first issue of Wool People). About 6 months ago, I approached each of these women to see if they’d be interested in coming together with me to form an official In-House Design Team at BT. To my great delight, they each accepted and the three of us have been happily collaborating on knitwear ever since!
Though we’ve been at it for a while now, we’re thrilled to be releasing our first group of designs as a team, just in time for the changing of the leaves. As with Wool People, we’ve put together a Look Book for the collection in hopes of giving you a pleasurable aesthetic introduction to the work. You can view it in the space below (click “expand” to view the full-screen version) or on our web site. If you’d like to download a free PDF copy to take along with you on your laptop, tablet, or device, you can get that here.
We were wooed by all sorts of surface texture as we were designing these patterns. We also wanted to make use of Shelter’s rich palette of Autumn, and create projects of all sizes and time-commitments. We hope there’s something in it for everyone to enjoy – happy Fall!
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RESOURCES: All the patterns in BT FALL 11 are available now for digital download here. Shelter US wool yarn is available here.
Once again, you amaze – beautiful patterns and photos!!
And I’m so with you re fall……
Gorgeous. I love love love all the new patterns.
What a fantastic direction you have taken knitting!!!! Love it soooo much – keep doing what you are doing!
I have never seen a pattern book in which I’ve loved every design ( I own a ton of books and spend lots of time on Ravelry & searching Amazon & blogs). This collection of patterns is amazing – I love every design!!! Great work, beautiful photos!
I am getting a lot of “sorry, the product is not found” messages on the patterns. Would love to buy some!
Every pattern is just beautiful! Great inspiration for a fall and winter of knitting. Thank you!
ooohhh – love so many of these!! Muir, Nero, Topiary, Bedord, Ashby, Flint…..I know I”m forgetting some. Love, love, love! Great job BT team!
What a gorgeous collection! It’s so exciting that you’ve got such a great in-house design team, too.
You make me want to quit my job and go home and knit. Beautiful collection.
OMG!!! I just love the collections you put out there!!! Keep up the fabulous work you are doing along with your BT team!
I love the look of a collapsed Ninian. Perhaps a few in square frames (that open of course!) mounted on the wall. GORGEOUS.
Add me to the list of people who love every. single. design here. Any chance we could buy the full book instead of individual patterns?
OMG, what a gorgeous collection, again!!! Tweed, cables, wraps, sweaters. It’s all so very, very good!
Just when I think I don’t need more patterns…you prove me wrong!
Why do you do this to me?
Those cables, that tweedy goodness…color me weak in the knees. And fangirly. Yet again.
http://yarncoma.blogspot.com/2011/09/seriously-jared-flood-seriously.html
Wow! These patterns are beautiful! I love them all, but Topiary, Tinder, and Peabody are going to the top of my “must knit” list.
I too cant purchase patterns i want. A lot of ‘cant be found’ msgs
The new patterns are beautiful. Can’t seem to access the patterns to purchase. Every time I click on “Garments” the only thing that comes up are the men’s sweaters!!! Cape Cod yarn crawl is this weekend and I’d love to go with pattern in hand!
Hi everyone! We’re so glad to hear that you like the new collection…it means the world to us. We had a few technical glitches with the web pages this morning, but they should be fixed and running smoothly now. We’re really sorry for the hiccups! please email us at info(AT)brooklyntweed.net if you need assistance with ordering. Thanks again, and Happy Fall! -Leila
Fabulous!
Wonderful collection. I loved every pattern!!
Am I misguided to imagine Peabody for my son?
Lovely collection – and I love that you’ve managed to have beautiful photographs (in their own right) that SHOW OFF the knits! Hurray!
Argh! Yes, I’m misguided — I meant BEDFØRD!!
Can one buy the whole book, or does one have to buy the patterns separately?
Damn! Your designs are all very ‘me’ – I shall have to re-jig my Ravelry queue, although there will probably be yarn subs for most of the designs unless someone in the UK decides to start importing and selling Shelter.
Wonderful !
Beautiful, as allways !
Where can we find the yarn outside the US ?
Very well done! Many designs that I can see myself knitting up.
Wow ! I love them, all ! And I love autum
Great photos, as always …. : )
Can you only purchase the patterns individually? Beautiful collection.
Lovely…
Would love to see the whole collection available together- love every pattern!
Dude, it is RARE that I love every single design in a collection, especially when most of the pieces are for women, but, holy wow, I wanna make everything here. If you ever decide to publish the whole thing as an e-book, let me/us know.
Mazeltov to the entire new Design Team!!!
LOVE!! thanks so much for a wonderful and inspiring collection. can’t wait to pick something to cast on!
Gorgeous. I love love love all the new patterns.
Regards from The Netherlands
i must say I too am in love with each and every pattern! Gorgeous job. Love how they truly all blend together in such a cohesive unit. Congrats!
These are beautiful!
Do you think the next collection you could do plus sizes? The patterns are too beautiful to exclude a group of knitters.
I love when you release new patterns. Can’t wait to buy some of these!
I think this new in-house design team is gonna inspire all kinds of knit, yarny goodness. Love, love, love the new patterns. The texture just screams out from my monitor.
The collection is absolutely gorgeous and I have 8 in my ravelry basket ready to go as soon as I get paid this weekend!
Thank you for such wonderful things to knit!
Wow! These designs are all gorgeous. And the photography really shows them off.
These patterns are awesome. I can’t wait to get knitting!
Jared, those design are delightful. Good job, BT team!
I have to agree with the other responders. I truly love your designs, they are simple and classic without being overdone. I can see myself knitting and wearing everything. Thanks so much for presenting us with your lovely designs. I hope to cast on, one of those lovelies soon!
Hi Jared–Wow, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a collection where I would love to make every single thing in it. And skimming through these comments, I see how unoriginal my comment is, so clearly these will be _the_ designs for fall. We’ll have to get you back to Scotland one of these days!
All best, Marina
Fabulous. I agree that I would love to see all these patterns packaged as an ebook. I just can’t afford to buy each of them separately. Now I have to decide which to start with – Lockhart. No, Broome. No, Ninian… hmmmm.
The designs are wonderful but now I have to re-jig my list of knitting projects!
Wonderful partterns. I especially love the cardigans and hats. Thanks!
Congratulations on beautiful, exciting work.
my local yarn store won’t carry your patterns or booklets because she can’t get your yarn. Her loss! Your patterns are wonderful, I’ll find the books somewhere!
Absolutely outstanding beautiful designs! Would be great if it comes as e-book. I’d be first in line to purchase. Well done and congratulations to all on the design team !