Cozy Knits by Sue Flanders, Janine Kosel

Cozy Knits

by Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel

What is everyone’s favorite thing about hand knits? The coziness! This book offers 30 knitted patterns inspired by international knitting traditions for socks, sweaters, scarves, and hats.

If you are a fan of cozy fair isle—it’s in here. If you are looking for a cozy Norwegian knit pattern—it’s in here—the cozier the better. These stylish projects are inspired by knitting traditions from around the world, such as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the British Isles, the Americas, and Asia.

Each project is partnered with complete illustrated patterns, beautiful four-color photography, schematics and diagrams, and alternatives for yarns and needle weights and sizes to help you get the results you want. The patterns range from simple to more complicated, making this a great book to grow your craft.

With Cozy Knits, create beautiful and gift-able cozy knits for friends and family—or even maybe just for yourself!

Reviewed by annieb123 on

5 of 5 stars

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Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Cozy Knits is a knitting pattern and tutorial book with patterns from various designers and edited and curated by Kari Cornell, with inspiration drawn from diverse world cultures and aesthetics. Due out 15th March 2022 from Quarto on their Voyageur Press imprint, it's 192 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is such an appealing book full of colorful and attractive accessory projects. The 30 different tutorials are arranged by type: scarves, hats & mittens, and socks. Each tutorial includes tools and materials, measurements in American (inches) and metric (centimeter) units (yay!!) followed by step-by-step directions.There is an introduction highlighted text box with inspiration for the design and a little background which I found fascinating (and educational). The pieces are all photographed in color, and the photos are clear and well positioned so the design elements are easy to visualize and understand. Most of the items are accompanied by more than one photo, and detail close up photos are inset in the text. Directions are clearly written and I found no glaring errors with a careful read-through. The materials will be fairly easily sourced online or at readers' local yarn shops. I like that the book gave a nod to one of my favorite utilitarian yarn geek websites: the YarnSub. The authors have also included an abbreviated resource/links list and index in the back of the book.

The projects are simple to moderately challenging (including an Estonian inspired sock design by knitting maven Nancy Bush which is *gorgeous* and which shot up my to-do list and will go on the needles after the must-do knitting I am doing now). I haven't finished any projects from the book (yet) but I have knitted gauge swatches with recommended or similar gauge yarns to those called for in the patterns and haven't found any difficulties or mistakes yet.

Beautiful patterns. Superlative! I predict this will be a lot of knitters' go-to pattern book for gift giving projects. There are a lot of patterns here which are also scrap friendly and can be knitted partially or wholly from remnants. The sock section alone is worth the price of admission (full disclosure, I'm a sock knitter down to my bones).

Five stars. This is a definite winner.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review

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