Collaboration between Karida Collins (Neighborhood Fiber Co.) and Ann Weaver (Weaverknits) began two years ago over a few drinks in Alexandria, VA. These two urban ladies share a love of rich, saturated color and clean, geometric design. Their friendship resulted in a monthly yarn and pattern club, which they expanded to create this book.

CONTAINER SHIPS: PATTERNS INSPIRED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE, WORKING PORTS, AND SHIPBREAKING

Patterns exclusive to club subscribers.

10 new patterns, one in two different versions, from Ann Weaver (weaverknits on Ravelry).

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens …

Sol LeWitt was an American artist who pioneered conceptual art. His Wall Drawings, of which he created 1,350 in 40 years, are instructions for how to create the drawings—others executed the instructions in a museum or gallery space.

The Palette showcases the full range of Plied North Ave colors by using one full set of 25 bobbins, each of which is between 30 and 40 yards. If you purchase a full set of bobbins, you’ll receive a code to get the pattern for free.

Sol LeWitt was an American artist who pioneered conceptual art. His Wall Drawings, of which he created 1,350 in 40 years, are instructions for how to create the drawings—others executed the instructions in a museum or gallery space.

Scarf 2: Knit in a stripe sequence using multiple colors across 45 stitches.

Alpaca Meringue will be free through April 30, 2020 to celebrate the launch of Neighborhood Fiber Co. Suri Loft. It’s the perfect way to try this amazing yarn!

Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.

Originally designed for the 2018 Mad Science club for String Theory Yarn Co., Sagittarius A is a circular shawl inspired by black holes. The center is simple Stockinette stitch in the round, and the wedges on the outside are shaped using short rows.

Bolton Hill is a seamless, bottom-up yoke sweater with a textured yoke that features eyelets and twisted stitches.

It’s World Cup 2018! Choose your team’s colors and knit a hat—or several hats! You can take your inspiration from your country’s flag, or get creative and use colors from your team’s jersey, home or away. The National 11 pattern gives instructions for two styles—slouchy and less slouchy—and two color placements. Goooooaaaalllll!!!

Short Row Sampler uses approximately 70 yards each of three colors of DK-weight yarn. You can use more colors if you like!

This warm, lightweight pullover showcases Shetland yarn from Liverpool Yarns, including naturally dyed colors dyed by Spencer Hill Dyer.

I designed this slouchy hat to showcase Amano Eco Puna Black: yarn made from black alpacas that supports the pure black alpaca population in the Andes. To give what I’ve termed “blackpaca” the maximum impact, I’ve worked this hat in helical stripes with Eco Puna in colorway 9000.

If you purchase the Colorshift Mosaic Cowl pattern, you can get the original Mosaic Cowl pattern for free. Put both patterns in your cart, then enter the code MOSAIC at checkout to get the original for free! The original pattern uses worsted weight yarn.

I designed this shawl for an event at String Theory Yarn Co. celebrating our power to promote peace. It uses Peace Will Come, a color Three Irish Girls dyed for the event.

Make the most of your yarn with this asymmetrical triangular

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Knit the progression from the water, to the prokaryotes, to the eukaryotes, to more complex cells, animals, and plants. There is grandeur in this view of life!

Yarn Requirements: Approximately 90 yards of each of five colors of worsted weight yarn

Yarn Requirements: 400 yards each of two colors and 40 yards of a third color. I used a Knitted Wit Gumball (40 yards of fingering-weight yarn) for my third color.

ALL money from the sales of this pattern will go to UNRWA, in perpetuity. FREE GAZA!

Madison Park is a stranded colorwork hat that’s ideal for learning two-color knitting or learning to knit with two colors by holding one color in each hand. The hat’s slouchy style means it’s forgiving if your floats are a bit tight, and the small pattern repeats mean there’s no need to catch floats.

Can you believe these colors were in a clearance bin together? Knit this simple shawl as an exercise in contrast of hue!

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The final pattern in Craft and Cocktails, Jalapeño Margarita is a small shawl worked from the top down. Most of the shawl uses a slipped-stitch block pattern, and the lace edging is joined to the live stitches of the shawl edge as it is worked back and forth. The result is an easy-to-knit shawl suitable for beginning and more adventurous lace a...

Created in the early twentieth century, the Aviation cocktail is an ode to the miracle of flight. Imagine an azure sky out the window beside you as you fly first class across the country. Imagine a time before TSA, economy class, and being charged for in-flight snacks. Let this cocktail take you to that magical place.

TWIGS! Twists, slipped stitches, bobble, and ribbing celebrate all things twig. This project was designed to showcase Neighborhood Fiber Co.’s newest yarn: Cobblestone Worsted. A little bit fuzzy, a little bit shiny. TWIGS!

The February installment of the Craft and Cocktails Club, in collaboration with String Theory Yarn Co. The pattern will be exclusive to club members until September 2016.

The January installment of Craft and Cocktails: A collaboration between String Theory Yarn Co. and Weaverknits

Lacy Maple Seed is a laceweight variation on the Flight of the Maple Seed shawl I designed for the Dream in Color Dream Club September 2014 installment. I’ve adapted the pattern for a lighter-weight yarn, like the Neighborhood Fiber Co. Capital Luxury Lace I’ve used for my sample.

A brioche cowl after Untitled, 1969, by Mark Rothko

A striped, rippled slouch hat after Untitled, 1969, by Mark Rothko

A modular shawl after The Ochre Ochre and Red on Red, 1954, by Mark Rothko

Odds and ends! Variegated yarns! Bright colors! Here’s your chance to mix and match them.

Now available in LONG and SHORT versions!

This elegant pullover features a subtle pattern of knit and purl stitches. Knit in a DK-weight yarn at a loose gauge, Parquet is comfortable to wear alone in the spring and fall or as a layer in chillier weather.

After Mark Rothko, No. 2 Black on Deep Purple, 1968.

The Gradient Half Pi shows off beautiful cashmere lace, held double throughout to create the gradient and finished with elegant eyelets.

Woodbrook originally was designed for the Neighborhood Fiber Co. 2014 Outerloop Sweater Club. Now it’s available to all!

EASTSIDE: Hard-edged lines and textures worked in four subtle spring colors from The Fibre Company

This shawl was initially designed for the 2014 Miss Babs Armchair Traveling Knitting Tour and is now available to everyone!

The first in a series of patterns designed to represent Penn North, my neighborhood in Baltimore, Traction Street uses a slipped-stitch pattern to create graffiti-inspired lines.

It felt like winter 2013 would never end, and winter 2015 promises to be just as bitter. Last year, I layered up every morning to walk my dog, and was wearing commercially made legwarmers nearly every day. When I got some Damsel for my Club Dragonfly project, I knew it was time to step up my style and sport some new handknits on my cold morning...

When I first saw Stonehedge Fiber Mill’s Crazy yarn, I thought of scrap quilts and rag rugs, particularly a rug that was in my grandparents’ cabin when I was young. This shawl translates that coziness into something modern and easy to wear.

Design #5 in the Container Ship Club.

Behold the MEGACOWL, designed to show off bulky-weight, textured yarn like Beltway Bulky or Rustic Bulky from Neighborhood Fiber Co. The pattern includes both Rustic Bulky and Beltway Bulky versions

This cowl uses approximately 80 to to 85 yards of each of five colors.

Fixation was created as a companion to Monomania. It’s a way to use up leftovers, knit some more chevrons if you just can’t help yourself, try out colors in preparation for making a Monomania, or knit a bunch of leftovers into some fabulous hats.

Iodine, named for its color and light, gaseous texture, showcases two unusual yarns: one silk and mohair and the other silk and stainless steel. The result is a generously sized cowl that weighs about 45 grams.

Blue Lagoon is a multifunctional wrap worked in a reversible ripple pattern that can be worn around your waist, around your neck, or around your shoulders.

For a few months, not a day went by when I was not thinking about chevrons and working toward my goal of a full-on chevron sweater that looks good on a wide range of figures and lends itself to all manner of color combinations, from subtle ombre to stark contrast. Here’s the result. Enjoy!

Comfortable and stylish, you can wear this tunic all year long. Because it’s worked in one piece from the top down, you can easily customize the length to make a top, a tunic, or a dress.

Inspired by Jasper Johns’s paintings and originally created as a mystery knitalong with Dragonfly Fibers, 5 is a large rectangular shawl, knit modularly in one piece. It uses approximately 250 yards of each of 5 colors. You can purchase kits from Dragonfly here.

Originally designed for Club Dragonfly, Antrea is now available as an individual download.

Art yarn ELEGANZA! You can whip up this cowl in an evening and be looking fierce the next day!

I’m somewhat confounded by what to knit, and what to wear generally, in the summer. The same pants as winter? The same skirts and dresses, minus the tights and cardigans?

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Named for the largest shipbreaking yard in Pakistan, Gaddani was styled after the hats and head wraps the shipbreakers wear to protect themselves. As I created the hat, I was grateful to be making it to protect my head from winter chills.

A classic silhouette, worked in one piece from the bottom up with top-down contiguous sleeves!

It’s not a state, but it’s more than a city. This simple scarf is a tribute to the architecture and pristine stone monuments of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.

Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, is known for its historical landmarks, quaint shops, and delightful restaurants and bars. Old Town is also known for Fibre Space, a decidedly forward-thinking yarn shop and the only retail location to carry all the Neighborhood Fiber Co.’s yarns. The shop’s mod aesthetic and colors inspired this garter stitch hat,...

This deeply textured cowl was instpired by Karida’s memories of cold Columbus winters. The pattern stitch is an abstract version of a buckeye, the nut from the official tree of Ohio.

The motifs on these mitts, which utilized six of Neighborhood Fiber Co.’s Baltimore colorways, were modeled after graffiti art found near Karida’s studio in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore.

The first mystery knitalong from Weaverknits and Neighborhood Fiber Co., inspired by Moby-Dick and Ad Reinhardt.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtile, ever-present perils of life.

Ahab’s hat was never restored; the wild hawk flew on and on with it; far in advance of the prow, and at last disappeared, while from the point of that disappearance, a minute black spot was dimly discerned, falling from that vast height into the sea.

Brit is “the minute yellow substance upon which the Right Whale largely feeds.” Brit was inspired by Melville’s description of a pod of Right Whales feeding by straining the brit from the water through the filtering plates in their mouths, their tails emerging and cutting a path through the sea. Just as Melville uses the subject of brit to cont...

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Lost Highway is my modern take on a traditional Danish tie shawl. Wrap it loosely around your neck or tie it around your shoulders to keep you warm while leaving your arms free for work (be it selling fish at a winter market or creating spreadsheets in an aggressively air conditioned office).

Create a square shawl that morphs into an octagon by working in the round! This project was designed to show off two colors of fingering-weight yarn and the textures created by combinations of knit and purl stitches and yarn overs. Starting from the center enables you to easily adjust the size of the shawl or add more colors as you work outward.

The second in the series of Container Ship patterns is named for the vessel in a photograph by artist Andrea Frank from her exhibition and subsequent book Ports and Ships. The goal of this piece was to capture the curve of the ship’s prow entering the water, but I wanted to manipulate the yarn as little as possible to achieve this—in the case, ...

I love using bold contrast in my work, particularly contrast of hue, which is the most intense type of contrast. This project uses yarn from The Verdant Gryphon in the three primary colors to demonstrate contrast of hue. For this design I broke up the bold colors with a neutral gray. Intense color can be wearable!

Inspired by the color studies done by Johannes Itten and his

Originally designed for the Fibre Space Indie Indulgence club, the Rusty Nail cardigan is inspired by my favorite drink (which also happens to be the name of the colorway), the colors of the city, my love of all things old and industrial, and the cardigans old men wear when they play chess in the park. Or feed the pigeons.

Chittagong is the first pattern in the Container Ships club. Club memberships are available now; this individual pattern will be available soon. Read more about the club below!

Worked from the top down in stockinette and garter stitch, this angular shawl achieves contrasts in color and drape by combining solid and self-striping yarns and increasing needle size. The “winged” shape helps the shawl stay wrapped and creates multiple styling options.

Design #6 in the Container Ships collection.

Hi everyone! I’ve uploaded an extensive revision of this pattern including all errata fixes and a lot of clarification. If you have a print copy of the pattern or the book or are having trouble accessing the update, please email me at ann@annweaverknits and I’ll make sure you have the right version!

“But the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.”

“But the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.”

ERRATA from very early versions: Under Body, step 2, last row should end k1, p4, sm, k4

The first pattern in my new self-published book, White Whale Vol. 1, patterns based on Moby-Dick.

Designed to show off two contrasting colors of fingering weight yarn, this easy top-down triangle shawl is a graphic interpretation of the shapes and structures of moss and ferns.

A simple, wide garter stitch scarf with stripes on the bias that makes the most of contrasting colors, simple increases, and big tassels. This piece can be worked in any yarn weight and color combination, and is easily made larger or smaller by adding repeats.

UPDATE ON THE PATTERN!

Errata from early print versions: On instructions 2 and 3 under “Yoke,” instructions should read:

This is the ninth pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new patterns.

August 23, 2013: I’ve decided I’d like to see more Powels out there, so I’m offering a coupon code for the first 100 purchasers. Just use the code EarlyAdopter at checkout to get the pattern for $2 ($3 off)!

This is the sixth pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new patterns.

This is the fifth pattern from Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new patterns.

This is the second version of the fourth pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new patterns.

This is the second pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new designs.

This is the third pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new patterns.

This is the the first version of the fourth pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new designs.

This is the seventh pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new designs.

This is the first pattern in Craft Work Knit, my self-published collection of 10 new designs.

An easy, slightly asymmetrical stranded knit great for experienced knitters as well as those new to fair isle. Use Andean Treasure, or substitute approximately 110 yards of any two colors of sport weight yarn you like!

A perfect circle of soft, cozy yellow that will brighten any winter day. A provisional cast on makes a seamless join, but if this idea stresses you out, simply stitch the ends of the cowl together after completing it.

A return to the Recession Series of free patterns, New Boots and Contracts is my very first sock design. As more design work comes my way, I’ve got to make time to remember why I knit all this stuff, anyway.

A textured cable creates soft volume while a striped edging adds a pop of color in this soft, funky, reptile-inspired cowl. The red stripes on this cowl reminded me of a milk snake’s patterning. KnitPicks Gloss HW is available in a range of rich, saturated colors to mix and match, and you can make your own Milk Snake Cowl with only two skeins!

I’ve been promising my husband this hat for months; he’s an avid cyclist. The design incorporates two bicycle elements: The chain, worked in fair isle, and the chain ring, created by the decreases at the crown.

50% of proceeds from this pattern through the end of FEBRUARY 2010 will go to Doctors without Borders/MSF for aid for the recent earthquake in Haiti.

Inspired by the Opie character from the biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy… this guy made the really big slouch hat bad ass!

Knit during the World Series in 2007, this sweater was first worn on the day after the Red Sox won it! At the time I was working a terrible jobjob, but on this lucky day the very first phone call I received was an offer for a new job, my current far-better jobjob!

After a barrage of comments about the giant SCARF I made my sister last winter, and seeing the enduring popularity of chunky knits, I decided to write up my process from very beginning to end. This 10-page tutorial covers everything from obtaining and preparing your materials to knitting and finishing tips, including the best way to attach a bu...

Designed for the Trenna lace contest at littleknits.com

This pattern was initially published in the June 2008 Smart Knitter newsletter. Due to popular demand, it is now available through Weaverknits!

Created in collaboration with my coworker and friend, Lauren, this design includes my usual favorite elements: Clean lines, unexpected details, asymmetry, and careful finishing touches.

Fabulous but cold? Clean lines and my personal favorite color combination, GRELLOW, make these simple, soft armwarmers high fashion.

Chris, my husband, and I came up with the idea for this pattern. My Dud, who was in a freak motorcycle accident a little over two years ago, absolutely rocks his red and black wheelchair (and now his red and black hand cycle as well), and this hat just sums up how I feel about him.

Originally published through MagKnits, Reptilian is a scarf designed with a simple lace motif that I first worked in a shiny, reflective, snakeskin-like yarn, Katia Cindy, that has since been discontinued.