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Knitgrrl Studio is home to knitwear + textile designer Shannon Okey. Knitgrrl Studio is home to knitwear and textile designer Shannon Okey.

Stichill Sweater Kits Now Available! 05/23/2023

Designed by yours truly.

Stichill Sweater Kits Now Available! Introducing the Stichill Sweater

This kit was created in collaboration with the Ross Farm to feature a beautiful, unique base yarn - Cheviot Limited. 100% made in the USA, this Cheviot Wool is grown, sheared, processed, milled, and dyed by small, Midwest businesses!
To celebrate this wonderful wool Shannon Okey designed this amazing sweater inspired by the small Scottish village where several of her more.. interesting ancestors lived. Including Agnes Lamb who beat up a sheriff with the help of her girl gang!
Kit includes enough skeins of this wonderful, Cheviot wool to make this sweater and download code for the matching pattern. Available dyed to order for a limited time!

05/04/2023

New design in time for Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend! A collaboration between yours truly, Destination Yarn and Ross Farm Fibers. Meet Stichill. You can buy it on our website here: https://cooperativepress.com/products/stichill-sweater

New for Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend, it's a collaboration between Destination Yarn, Ross Farm Fibers and Knitgrrl Studio/Cooperative Press! Meet Stichill.

https://cooperativepress.com/collections/latest-releases/products/stichill-sweater

Jeanne from Destination designed sweater kit colorways for Ross Farm Cheviot yarn and Shannon's team (including tech editor Andi Smith and sample knitter Candace Musmeci) worked out a castle-inspired yoke sweater design.

In keeping with the Scottish theme for this Destination Yarn collection I’ve named this sweater after a small Scottish village where several of my more... interesting ancestors lived. My 10x great grandmother Agnes Lamb—yes, that was really her name—beat up the local sheriff when he came to collect a debt, and her girl gang helped. This is all documented in the records of the local baron’s court! Perhaps she should have stuck to knitting instead.

You can get the yarn Friday in Destination's booth at Yarncentrick, in the Ross booth all weekend at MDSW, and online shortly after. Pattern is available now on the CP site and Ravelry in case you want to check out sizing / make yarn purchase plans.

Aurora Borealis Mittens 03/04/2022

Aurora Borealis Mittens In Aurora Borealis Mittens, designer Shannon Okey celebrates the textile traditions of northern climes by remixing visual patterns from the í�slensk sjÌÎ_nabÌÎ_k.

A Castle for Christmas: Real Scots knitting team helps Netflix rom-com stars get the needle 12/05/2021

This may be the only thing that gets me to watch Hallmark Christmas movies.

A Castle for Christmas: Real Scots knitting team helps Netflix rom-com stars get the needle It may be billed as a romantic comedy but knitwear designer Di Gilpin made sure A Castle For Christmas took one thing seriously: knitting.

10/16/2021

We’re at Rhinebeck today! Find all the Knitgrrl books in the Cooperative Press booth at the back of Building C by Miss Babs.

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 08/30/2021

So I’m learning Hungarian, and fortunately thanks to decades of heavy Hungarian immigration our library system has a lot of language resources. Here’s Let’s Learn To Knit (1986), starring the most *irritated* male model I have ever seen. I love it.

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 08/29/2021

I miss dyeing. It’s been a while.

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/14/2021

Shiso Socks by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl)

Using a k2tog rather than the more conventional ssk in the lace pattern adds texture to this lovely sock. I like how the patterning breaks up the highly variegated yarn but we've added a swatch in plain yellow so you can better see how it looks (see A Tale of Two Colorways at the end). I named this pattern Shiso because the colors in the yarn reminded me of the plant!

https://buff.ly/2P9pQER

Timeline photos 07/13/2021

Originally published in UK magazine Yarn Forward, Red Lotus by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl) is a knitted-then-felted bag with an unusual petal construction. Pattern includes directions for using your own handles or for knitting handles, your choice.

https://buff.ly/3eVpMnc

Timeline photos 07/12/2021

Donna is a lacy cowl knitting pattern by Shannon Okey, designed using Tayet from Spirit Trail Fibers Works. While she is no longer in business, a gorgeous skein of fi*****ng weight is all you need! Donna is included in The Cowls Are Not What They Seem (also available from Cooperative Press), a book of cowl patterns designed for adventurous knitters who like to experiment! https://buff.ly/3bBajXi

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/11/2021

Mokosh Shawl by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl)

Mokosh is a Slavic goddess, protector of women's work (including spinning, weaving and shearing sheep), as well as women's destiny. The colors of this shawl evoke the damp new beginnings of springtime. Mokosh's name is derived from words that mean "moisture," which seemed apropos for a shawl knit from colorways named Pond Scum and Scumbubbles. I actually like BOTH sides of this shawl, so have photographed it both ways.

https://buff.ly/3eTxWwd

Timeline photos 07/10/2021

Knitgrrl Hats by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl)

Why not release a pattern a week for a year, and run a Patreon to help fund it? This was the original concept behind designer Shannon Okey’s knit publishing project.

Knitgrrl Hats is the first book release from the project, published with considerable help from her right hand woman and technical editor Andi Smith, as well as a large cast of sample knitters, models, photographers and more.

https://buff.ly/2Pajup3

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/09/2021

Astrid is a pattern for gorgeous colorwork mittens using fi*****ng weight yarns from my book Aurora Borealis Mittens, which celebrates the textile traditions of northern climes by remixing visual patterns collated in the renowned Íslensk sjónabók. The sjónabók a collaboration among many Icelandic museums, features 700+ pages of imagery drawn from textile and other decorative object collections all over Iceland.

Buy now: https://buff.ly/3l11pWj

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/08/2021

Exploded View by Shannon Okey

Some people see a knitted dissected frog and say “ew!” Some people end up designing a sweater because it gave them an idea. (Note: I am one of the latter)

Exploded View is based on the principle of, what else? exploded view. Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees when you’re in the middle of knitting a sweater, and I wanted to create a design that would be

* easy to knit
* a good “transitional” pattern for people coming to the world of sweater knitting from, say, scarf knitting
* a flexible template for you to make your own design decisions
flattering and fun
* a good way to use up stash yarn

Because you’re only working on any one section at a time after you’ve knit the yoke, this sweater knits up fast and can even accommodate different stitch patterns in each panel if you like. Some design ideas are included in the pattern, so don’t feel as if you need to be a capital-D Designer in order to truly make this your own. Enjoy!

https://buff.ly/2OqNo8e

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/07/2021

Fresh Designs: SCARVES is a pattern book by emerging fiber arts designers from all over the world.

Designers in this book include Amy Duncan, Claire Valentine, Daniel Yuhas, Hannah Cuviello, Heather Keiser, Jenny Williams, Jill Wright, Margarete Dolff, Sylvia Cannizzaro, and Valeria Kerkka.

We love indie yarns! Yarn companies featured in SCARVES include: Indigodragonfly, Natural Born Dyers, Berroco, Yarn Love, Kangaroo Dyer, Alpaca With A Twist, Green Eyed Monsters, and Aade Long.

https://buff.ly/3roh5UR

Go Pro: Make money from your design business! 07/07/2021

Take a class with me next month at Melissa’s conference for designers! Want to learn how to get published? I’ve got you covered.

Go Pro: Make money from your design business! Are you interested in starting a rewarding career in knit or crochet design? Would you like to build on an existing business? Are you simply curious about how the industry works? Do you want to have a behind-the-scenes look at how experts approach their specialties?

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/06/2021

Freydis by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl)

Freydis is part of Aurora Borealis Mittens, in which designer Shannon Okey celebrates the textile traditions of northern climes by remixing visual patterns collated in the renowned Íslensk sjónabók. The sjónabók a collaboration among many Icelandic museums, features 700+ pages of imagery drawn from textile and other decorative object collections all over Iceland.

https://buff.ly/2PpzKCy

Photos from Knitgrrl Studio's post 07/05/2021

Sweet Crocodile Socks by Shannon Okey (aka Knitgrrl).

From the designer: "Kimber, my sample knitter for these socks, lives in Florida with a long haired dachshund named Mo who looks exactly like my former dachsie Anezka. This Spunky Eclectic colorway paired with the stitch pattern reminds me of a crocodile, almost like our long-snouted little dog friends."

https://buff.ly/3vEeeLc

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