Cold weather sports are a wonderful source of inspiration for knitters; after all, anyone who is outside during the winter months is going to need to stay warm, and we all know that a knitted hat, scarf, or sweater is the best way to do that. The patterns in Stitch Mountain: 30 Warm Knits for Conquering the Cold, a magnificent new knitting book, were designed for some serious winter wear and tear. Each pattern in the book was specifically designed for a winter athlete, several of whom are currently competing in Sochi!
If you love winter sports, or just have to deal with cold weather, these patterns will certainly keep you nice and warm. With designs by some of the top creators in the industry, we just couldn’t keep this fantastic book to ourselves. We are giving away one copy of Stitch Mountain each day until February 28, 2014, along with a yummy yarn bouquet featuring all the materials you’ll need to make a beautiful pattern from the book. Scroll down to enter today’s giveaway!
Today’s Pattern: Personalized Headband
Today’s giveaway features the Personalized Headband, designed by Kristen AShbaugh-Helmreich from Stitch Mountain: 30 Warm Knits for Conquering the Cold by Laura Zander, published by Sixth&Spring Books, sixthandspringbooks.com. Photography by Brad Swonetz and pattern instructions copyright © 2013 by Sixth&Spring Books/Soho Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Add your own personal twist to this classic headband, designed for alpine skiing medalist Julia Mancuso.
Enter to Win Today’s Prize:
This yarn bouquet contains three balls of Rowan Pure Wool; one skein each of #410 Indigo, #436 Kiss, and #412 Snow. You’ll find everything you need to knit the Personalized Headband, plus a copy of Stitch Mountain, in this exciting prize. To win, simply leave a comment that answers the question below:
What are your favorite colors to knit with?
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Heathered shades of purples, red violets, and teals.
My favorite colors to knit with are shades of purple, it is my favorite color to wear as well.
I love almost all blues and various shades of browny beiges – tobacco, fawn, camel and other hues.
My favorite colors are reds, blues, purples and greens.
I love to use purples and blues, but I also like making things with multicolored yarns like rainbows and seasonal color blends!
Love pinks and blues!
My favorites colors are light blues and pales purples.
I love a combo of a neutral colours with a vibrant accent
I like to knit with wine and teal blue yarn the most.
I love the light greens & yellows, for babys
I love all blue yarn. At Vogue Knitting Live this year I bought only blue yarn and my friend bought all brown and green.
I love yarns various shades of blue and gray.
I love self striping in just about any color and watching how the pattern changes when used in different projects. My most recent waa shades of purple/teal stripe that i used a diagonal rib and when finished the first half created a big “x” in the middle and the second created a big “o”.. I lined it and made it a project bag and promptly named it my hugs and kisses (xoxo) bag sunce it was made this month. Its hard to pick one color but i gravitate towards jewel tones.
Dusty grey and blues!
It depends on the time of year but I love autumn tones or jewel tones
I love to knit with every color in the rainbow except for black which I will use occasionally. I love the looks of this headband and would love to win. Would be beautiful on my 16 yo grand daughter with luscious long wavy red hair. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I just love color! For babies and children I love to knit with bright colors and for my adult friends I try to knit with their favorite colors, and then for myself I gravitate to blues and purples for my knits.
The color in the picture it’s beautiful
blues, greens and browns
Purple! Makes me feel like royalty!
I like variegated yarns, as it’s sort of a surprise to see how the colors will group together when finished.
Pinks & oranges! Thanx for the chance!! 🙂
Anything but black! I can’t see black!!
Blues, reds and greens, I also like greys for some things for myself or adults, but for kids I like using the vibrant colors on the market today and for babies I love the pastel colors. .
Blue is my absolute fave. Purple and pinks come next.
all colors
Red and teal. Teal in varigated is good.
I have quite a few–Navy, Pink, Kelly Green are just a few
I love heathered colors especially in browns, and lately I’ve discovered I really like purples.
I love fair isle knitting with lots of colors! Blues, greens, and neutrals are my favorite!
I love the multicolored variegated yarns in all hues!
I’ll knit with any color, but greens, blues and purples are my favorites.
I love reds – varigated or solid, it doesn’t matter.
I love pinks and purples.
When I began knitting, I loved bright colors. As my experience grows, I find natural and neutral tones make more versatile pieces. However, when I’m in the mood for fair isle or intarsia, I revisit the bold palettes I loved in the beginning.
I like to knit with neutrals and jewel tones. Lately I especially like browns.
I crochet more than I knit, but can do both. My favorite colors are shades of blue and purple for me and all pastel colors for babies. I also like bright and bold colors. I belong to a knitting/crocheting club and we do special projects sometimes. We just finished one using red, white, and blue to make scarves for a group of handicapped people for their Special Olympics, needed by Jan. 6th 2014. They could be any pattern as long as they were red, white and blue. They needed at least 1000 scarves so all the club across Indiana worked on this project. Last year we made over 100 hats for our local Cancer Society using any color or pattern we chose. I have also made several afghans and baby blankets for raffles to raise money for different charities. So I would love to win and could make good use of any yarn and patterns I would get. Thank you.
I enjoy knitting with all colors at all times. To much of one color or tones is booring.
Earthy colors, tans, natural, grays and sometimes purples.
My favorite colors to knit with are blues, reds, and black.
Purple – Go VIkings!
I love blues the best, followed by purples and greens. I am aching to try some grays soon.
Blues and pinks and camo.
all shades of blue, with yellow thrown in there now and then!
I crochet more than I knit, but can do both. I like blue and purple, and bright bold colors. I belong to a Knit/crochet club. We just finished a scarf project for the “Special Olympics” that all the clubs across Indiana worked on to get a least a 1000 scarves by Jan. 6th 2014. Last year our group made over 100 hats for the local Cancer Society and I have made several afghans and baby blankets for raffles to raise money for different charities. So I would love to win and could make good use of any yarn and patterns. Thank you
Blues, purples and greys.
I love working with natural colours – green, cream, and brown are some of my favourites.
My favorite color to knit with year seems to be green! And mostly the brighter shades. I’m not usually a green person. But I noticed I navigated towards greens. Right now I’m having a kick for pink!!
Rich reds and purples
I like to knit with a variety of colors. I like color work using many different jewel tones. Right now I’m making a sweater with an Island Blue that I love.
Purples and pinks. Or whatever I think the recipient needs!
Reds, blues, purples – any jewel tone colors are my favorite.
it seems I like color changing yarns (keeps my eyes from getting fatigued) in tones of blues/greens, red/yellow/brown/orange, pinks/purples. So much better than having to switch out colors….
Raspberry!
Heathered shades of greens and purples.
I love periwinkle blue so prefer to stay in that hue range for myself. For others I knit in their preferred colors.
Greens: moss, emerald, forest, even lime!
Blues, greens, and natural browns, like linen colors.
My favorite colors to use are the fall colors. Oranges, Golds, Deep Reds and shades of Brown. They are such warm and comforting colors. :0)
My favorite color to knit with changes, just like the color I want to wear for the day. I love the variegated yarns so I can enjoy lots of colors/shades in one project.
Earthy colors such as greens, browns, oranges, golds, dark reds and yellows.
Greys, Blues, Purples.
I like all colors but i think my favorites are autumn colors. Nothing like autumn colors to make you feel warm and homey.
Black, gray, green, blue and purple are my favorite colors together!
Mostly greys and greens, however I’ve recently really been enjoying Yellow as a nice accent color.
My favorite colors to knit with are blues, greens, purples, reds, and grays!
I love all shades of blues, greens, purples and pinks.
Right now blues. Who knows what it will be next week?
I am an extreme knitter. I love color, and using the basic color pallet. I also love the natural browns, cream, tans of nature. The way mother nature made them.
anything blue
loving this new past time of knitting and crocheting.
blue…I love blues….and plain old white or cream….and red and gray….okay, all colors!
Any shade of turquoise
Pink and Creme!
Anything that is purple or pink.
I gravitate toward earthy tones–any color you’d see during a walk through the woods.
I love color and enjoy knitting with all of them.
I love changing it up…earthtones for awhile, next project maybe pinks, then some neon legwarmers for my girls, these week i’m diving into green!
I love blues & greens especially, heathered or shaded. BUT I love all colors & knit in colors to suit the person I am knitting for.
What delightful colors! Anyone should love these.
I’m a color freak! I will do a scraps afghan just to put in all the different colors I have in my yarn stash.
Purple!!!!!!
Definitely Blues and any accent colors that look good with the blue I am using.
Blue-greens
What a beautiful combination — the children at the Shriners Childrens Hospital would love items out of these colors.
My favorite colors are different shades of blue.
I like to crochet with the green/yellow or purple varigated colors because they form interesting patterns.
I love to use blues and greys
Blues, greys, and coral.
I love to knit with teal/turquoise, white and sand (a shade of tan).
Red and pink variations are my favorite. I love to knit with all colors though..
Green is definitely my favorite (and the yarn I currently have the most skeins of) by far.
I am definitely a purple girl!
It depends on the pattern and what colors I think would look best with it.
Favorite is blue.
I love working with all shades of pink and mauve.
Even though my favorite color is green, I love to knit with blue and red shades and variegated yarns of all colors.
Blues and greens
All of them! I have been using blended color yarn for wristlets. I love using different colors for different projects. Yellow for Tay(my 6 yr. old great granddaughter), dark blue for Tucker(7 yr. old great grandson). Varigated for hats and slippers.
I love working with bright colors.
Yellow, red and orange. Thanks
I particularly like knitting with reds and blues. Also love using verigated colors especially for mittens and scarfs and colowork. Hugs Robbie
Purples, blues, grey’s and blacks with a punch of color thrown in every once in a while.
Red and black (my school colors), silvery gray, and pinks and purples.
I love to knit with fall colors oranges, olive green and browns and yellow.
Lime green, deep red, and a warm yellow.
Blue, raspberry or teal/turquoise.
RED HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAVORITE WITH THE VARIOUS SHADES OF BLUE A CLOSE SECOND
It depends what I’m knitting, but I like knitting with lighter shades because it makes it easier to see my stitches, and fancy work like cables are more visible.
Blues I love blue. My next favorite color to knit with is black. I know everyone is going eewwww because it’s so difficult to see your stitches but I just knit with a really good craft light or knit outside in the sunshine. It’s a good excuse to knit outside!
I love purples, blues, reds and neutral colors.
Favorite colors to knit with are cream, chocolate brown and light blue. I also like deep red and a heather grey.
Burgundy, cranberry, crimson and maroon. I love wrapping up in reds!
I love earthy fall colors: browns, russets, muted gold, burnt orange, etc. Just looking at them makes me feel all warm and cozy!
My favorite colors of yarn to knit with are blues, pinks, greens and reds. Love the bright shades.
Blues and purples
Though my favorite color is green, forest green to be specific, I’d choose red – any red – for my needlework projects.
I love knitting with all shades of blue and enjoy most baby yarns.
I love choosing blues and teals… I have to remind myself to diversify or I’d end up nothing but blue hand knits!
I love to knit with soft blues and purples.
What a cute hat! I can see my daughter wearing it to work. I have made her several hats and a lot of pair of knitted socks, she says they are the best. It would be nice to win todays contest.
Jewel tones are my favorite variety.
I love any shade of blue. Solid, variegated, heathered, doesn’t matter.
The colors of sunset, corals, aquas, yellows.
Purples, blues, greens, it depends on why I’m making. I really like all colors.
Bright ones! My nieces and nephew all love the neons and rich, full colors!
I love every color of the rainbow. I try different color combinations. If they don’t work together with crocheting it it so easy to unravel and start again.
I almost always gravitate towards greens. But I am a big fan of variegated yarns, love to watch the colors change!!
Contrasting colors with a hint of something different are my favorite. Then there is more of a combine of colors for mood or personality! Happy! Bold! Subtle! Demure! Ominous!!
My favorite colors to knit with depends on the design and person I’m knitting for, but I recently enjoyed knitting a scarf in colors graphite and amethyst.
I’m a big fan of variegated wool as you get a different pattern every time.
I also love blues, purples, black and reds
I guess my favorite color is all shades of blue. I didn’t know that until I looked over my stash and the majority of it was blues.
So many colors to choose from … I ombres/variegated and often choose shades of greens, purples and blues. My current solid color favorites are key lime, passionfruit (violet), and snap dragon (bright pink).
Jew
Apologies! Jewel tones!
I love shades of purple, reds, yellows & blues.
Greens and purples. But then….coral is delightful, especially if you combine it with ecru and faded pink.
I love blues, lots of different blues
Greens & purples.
I really like the reds, pinks, oranges, purples, as well as bright blues. I think these colours are cheerful and make me happy to wear them and knit with them.
blues and purples
I have to say teal is my favorite!
I like them all!
i love to knit with all different shades of red.
My favorite colors to knit with are pale turquoise blue, spring greens, and raspberry red!! I also like purples a lot since they are easy to coordinate.
The colors I knit with depend on who I’m knitting for, and the type of piece it is. If I’m doing large pieces for myself, I stick with neutrals, and use smaller accessory pieces to add color.
I love knitting with natural colors of wool, as well as greys and all shades of green. I love the Irish influence my heritage has on the pieces I choose to create and these colors make me think of what my ancestors may have worn or created themselves. 🙂
Thanks to the Olympics, I’ve been on a red, white and blue kick!
About the only color that I do not like is yellow, but I do use various shades of it. I love the Fall colors for knitting anything and right now, I am obsessed with purple. I made a purple (various shades) quilt, purple table topper, purple place mats and have got to get some purple yarn to make a scarf and hat.
I love blues of all shades, but darker suits me better 😀 I also like to add in some white (my college colors were blue and white).
i like all color’s white, purple’s, cream’s, pink’s, yellow’s and blue’s. also all kind’s of varigated yarn’s.
Blue and red
Greens and browns. Never black, my old eyes can’t do that!
From beige to purple, the pattern of choice should hold up under any color.
I like to knit hats, scarves and gloves during the winter. I am teaching myself different styles of knitting and learning how to do fair isle knitting right now.
I like all colors of yarn as you can pair them if it isn’t the right color for the project to get a different desired color. I tend to lean towards more blues and grays, but will knit just about any color, depending on the project.
Everything in my world is purple, green and blue. Except when it’s not. 😀
My favorites colors are reds, blues, pink and purple.
I am loving all shades of purple, and shades of burgundy!
my fav colors to knit/crochet are pinks and purples, but I do a lot of blues too
I like heathered purples.
Blues, greens and purples
Red, white an blue.
I like greens, blues, and purples.
Depends on project and recipient. Shades of turquoise and purple are nice.
I love to use variegated yarns. They add unplanned interest to easy pieces with no extra effort.
I love working with shades of greens, browns, and grays!
Greens and berries. But I also love jewel tones
Purples and Browns
Would love wool to make this liked and shared
Jewel tones.
Jewel tones! Teal, ruby and jade.
I like reds
I personally would not make this headband but if someone wanted me to make them one I most definetly would! all black or maybe herringbone!
usually greens, browns and blues
rich purples or a unique multi-color!
love the heather, teal and moss
Blue and red
Peach, coral, aqua. Absolutely.
shades of purple at the moment. I must be getting ready for spring to come.
I like to use neutral colors. Sometimes with a splash of pink or purple!
I just love knitting with reds & black.
My favorite colors are COUNTRY BLUES, GRAYS,and MAUVE
No favorite colors because it all depends on what I am making and whom I am making it for
purple, teals are my favorites
I love to knit with purples and teals.
I love blues and purple, and also all different shades of grey.
My favourites would be the bright pastels
I would ABSOLUTELY make this headband – my hair is wild curly and this would certainly help to keep it under control!
I love to knit with nuetral colors, biege, off white and then add a pop of blue, red or deep purples!!
Variegated or self striping, but I also like all color combinations. It just depends on my mood, who I’m making things for and the pattern.
My favorite colors to knit with are mauves and sage/olive greens.
I like all color combinations. It depends on what I’m making, who it’s for and the pattern. I also like self-striping and variegated yarns. It’s fun to see what design pops out.
I love earthtones to knit with, thank you for a chance to win .
Eyeing my stash, I’d have to say just about any color!
My favorite shades to knit with are purple, aqua and turquoise.
Blue
dark teal/Peacock, blues, bright sunshiney yellow, orange, etc 🙂
I love all colors–but as I think about it, I use variegated colors mostly. My specific color choices are usually based on who I am knitting for!
Any shade of red.
I prefer lighter colors. Even though the soil more easily, they show stitch definition well and are easier to be able to see what you are doing when the lighting is not very good.
I enjoy knitting with ever color.
Blues
I love the gem stone colors like Cobalt Blue, Emerald Green and Dark Ruby Red. I so much want to make a shawl.
I just love any shade of purple! Brights, pastels, you name it. Purple is such a happy color!
I love greens and blues most of all.
Peacock! Purple/blue/green.
give me jacquard yarn, please.. i love knitting and having a design magically appear!
Anything bright and bold
I love all the colors because of all the variations that you can do. Verigated is also wonderful because you can see a pattern start to emerge. My children are my inspirations when it comes to the colors that I use.
My favorite colors for myself are browns and blues!
Can’t get enough of teals and reds. Just can’t pass them up. Love the headband!
It depends on the piece – I love baby clothes and baby blankets in soft pastels, sweaters for teens in brights, sweaters for men in heathers. I love it all!
I like the softer earth tones, greens, tans, those colors used in a lot of camo patterns. I kinda like all colors, but those are my favorites. The yarn types mean the most though, I like the soft, non splitting types, as I make a lot of baby and children type stuff.
I knit mostly with cool colors…blues, purples, teals, but a few pinks and cool reds slip in sometimes.
I like all shades of blue but my favorite color to knit with totally depends on the item being knitted and the person it is being made for.
Reds and blues are my favorite colors to knit/crochet with.
I just love to knit. My favorite color is the color I’m using at the time.
I tend to lean towards rustic colors or patriotic colors. I wouldn’t turn any yarn away !!
bright neons that you can see at night
I have yet to find a color I will not use for knitting since I always ask my knitting recipients for their preferences. That being said, I truly enjoy magenta and/or teal when knitting for myself. The depth and warmth of magenta makes me happy while the lush cool of teal calms me, making the knitting experience more zen
Grays, browns, blues, GREENS.
Brown and green. Especially green.
I just love to work with all colors…it’s a curse! lol
I enjoy any combination of bright colors.
Variegated
I love to knit with any color of blue.
I love to knit in bright colors. Everyone in my family has the stitch mountain neon jungle hat.
Almost any colors except browns and oranges. Things knit with red yarn always look great.
Only in different colors
I am drawn to anything with rainbow colors right now.
I love to work with all kinds of yarn. Always looking for new patterns to work up and share with family and friends. My first love is to knit or crochet for my grandkids. Purple and pinks are the granddaughters favorite colors.
all colors!
I like teal orchid banana and brick red
I love knitting with red yarns.
I love all color’s I love to use a different color every time I crochet. But I must say alot of things look really pretty in shades of gray.
I love working with shades of blues and purples
I love to knit with a multi colored yarn, or hues of purples and teal and black 🙂
I enjoy working with any color; but my favorites are jewel tones. I just love the blues, greens, purples.
purple
I love yellow, orange and brown.
My favorite colors are turquoise and tan, thanks!
Purple
I like blues and red – very patriotic 😉
Red, purple, blues and natural alpaca colors too
I love the rich dark hues. I did a lot of green last year. This year probably blues and purples
I love neutral colors , browns, tans, soft blues, greys;)
Blues and pinks.
And I like grays too.
Blues…….soft receding greens…….brown and grey heathers…….mmmm!
Blue, green and purple. I can’t seem to resist them in combination.
My favorite colors to knit with are brights, like yellows and oranges. I used prefer dark purples, but it’s harder to work quickly with darker colors.
Purple
I Love vibrant purples, turqoise and lime green.
I actually like the multi colored yarns for blending beautiful creations
I love to work with reds, creams, taupe and blues. And greens.
I like the lighter colors, it’s getting harder to see when using dark colors
Purples!!
Purple or red
I seem to always pick out purple and blue!
Blue
I love soft colors, bright colors, variegated and all camouflage colors. Basically I do hats
& lapghans for the Veterans at the Oscar G. Johnson Medical Clinic in Iron Mountain, Michigan. I also do hats, mittens & scarfs for the Marine Corp League Toys For Tots program(my husband & I are new members) this Christmas Season we made 56 hats for the Escanaba Area High School homeless & underprivileged teens. I make hats & mittens for the needy baskets during the holidays.
I love my Charity work and I LOVE yarn!
Dark colours
I love blues, heathers, rosy colors and teals
Off white and soft denim blue. And then any other colors
Sometimes I like blues and purples and other times I love to knit with bright, bright colors. I sometimes knit for children and they seem to love bright colors.
Rainbow: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet …. something about the way each colour blends into the next makes me a Very Happy Knitter!
I’m from Australia and just wanted to share! 🙂
Shades of blue and green inspire me these days. Love the names of the colors #410 Indigo, #436 Kiss, and #412 Snow.
Purple is my one and only color.
I love to knit with variegated sock yarn. I love to see the patterns the different colors make.
I just enjoy color! It’s always interesting to see how a skein will knit up! So many beautiful choices!
Blues and purples…
If I let my stash speak for my preferences, then it’s browns and grays.
I knit for my three granddaughters. So pink and purples. Two of them have a rare genetic disease that is terminal , the 8 year old is in a wheel chair now, but they love the things NeeNee makes for them. I made 5 sweaters fir Christmad even the boys received matching sweaters, they are brothers 6 and 6 months hoe cute was that and the 3 girls received marching sweaters two sisters and one cousin I am blessed with 5 beautiful grandchildren. Thank you God and please heal Chrissy and Amanda.
Any colours are good but I love fall colours best
I love teals, light & medium & dark, and anything woodsy – the greens & browns & flashes of blue & red
I love varigated yarn with interesting color combinations
This is just a very attractive looking hat. The pattern intrigues me.
I like to knit scarves. They are quick and easy. I have made several this winter and given them for gifts.
I mostly use baby colors: blue, yellow, green and pink!
I like deep shaded colors. Emerald magenta purple blue pared with lighter contrasting colors.
I love to use jewel tones, Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst
I like to knit with reds and browns.
My favorite colors to knit with are navy blue, calbolt blue and white when I can get these colors. I like to add red to some of the things I knit to perk them up a bit.
When I knit/crochet for myself. I prefer RED!! Any shade of red.
I love all colors solid and multi.
BLUES!! yellows, blues, reds… purples.. greens… BLUES!!
I like bright and pastel colors.
I like shades of brown for sweaters and blues for socks