BT Fall 11

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.

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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!

____________________ RESOURCES: All the patterns in BT FALL 11 are available now for digital download here. Shelter US wool yarn is available here.