Sometimes the best way to figure out your next project is by finding a display sample that you like. When I look at some patterns, they seem ‘meh’ or not particularly to my liking. Many times I’ll fall in love with a sample, go to the pattern, and find myself thinking that it was really good that I saw the sample first because I’d have dismissed the pattern. It could be that the photograph didn’t grab me or the color of the yarn but I wasn’t interested. Thank goodness for samples!

You can start 2022 by knitting a Kordy sweater! This sweater is from the Moon and Turtle book that is so popular. ‘Moon and turtle’ is a Japanese saying similar to ‘chalk and cheese’, meaning that even though two things look similar in some way, they are in fact completely different. Each design in this collection offers variations that create a different version of the original pattern!