Winter Knitting Inspiration ❄️ Cables, Turtleneck Sweaters & Colourwork Ideas

Hi everyone and welcome or welcome back. My name is Laura and on this channel I talk all about knitting. So it is nearing the end of October, so it's almost November, which means it's time to start thinking about winter knitting. So I have so many ideas for winter knitting, so I wanted to put it all in one video to get like a big inspirational video. Because there's just too too many patterns. But it's just an inspirational video and I think I will So these are not my plans. use this video myself to make my own winter plans. So when I think about winter knitting, I think about like turtleneck cozy sweaters, or a lot of color work sweaters, maybe a lot of cabling in sweaters, some hats and accessories. So I want to find the patterns that I like most in all of these categories. I might put it in different categories like timestamps that you can skip if you want a specific category but it's a lot of patterns so let's just get into it. So first I will start with the category with high warm turtleneck sweaters because that's one I'm really looking forward to to get my cozy winter turtleneck sweater. So the first one on this list Might be a very obvious one. It's called the Winter's Pullover by Ozetta. This pattern is knit at a 15 stitch gauge. So it's a bigger gauge, so it will knit up very quickly. And it's knit with, let's see, Aran weight yarns. So it will be sort of thick and cozy and has a very high turtleneck but you can fold it over and it's a regular folded over turtleneck. It is a drop shoulder pattern and it has a lot of positive ease. So when I check here it has 41 centimeters of positive ease which is 16 inches. It is a lot of positive ease. So when you see the sweater sample it's like a big warm hug. So it's a I think a perfect layering piece for those cold winter days when it's not raining outside. You can just put on a super super warm sweater and go outside when it's close to freezing temperatures. That is just something I'm looking forward to. We have a lot of rain here where I live. So usually I have to wear a coat, like a raincoat, to go outside in the wintertime. But we do have those days where it's just really cold, but the sun is out, and then it's just so nice to put on a really warm and thick sweater and no raincoat. So that is actually what I'm really looking for in these patterns. So this is the first one on the list. I think this one will be very quick, because it's at such a big gauge with the 15 stitches. So this might be a really fun quick knit. The next one is a little bit similar in terms of being really like oversized and a thick yarn and it is the Lumpy Sweater by Stardew Nordland. So it's actually a free pattern because she designed it for Novita. So it's nice a free pattern and it has such a big gauge even bigger than the 15 stitch gauge from the last sweater. So this one has a nine stitch gauge so it will fly by. It will be such a quick project and it will be such a nice thick outer layer. So this one might be a really nice one as well. This one is a raglan sweater as the last one was a drop shoulder one so that is a big difference as well and it doesn't have like the folded over turtleneck but just like the regular high neck because it's such I think because it's such a thick yarn that if you fold it over it will be just too bulky. So it's just a very thick high collar and then the raglan and it has a bit of shorter sleeve which is weird to me because you In those winter days to cover your wrists so it's nice and cozy and warm but you can just knit a little longer and then you have that nice tuck of a sweater. So this one is also a very nice one, a quick knit. It's a pattern that's been around since January 2020 so it's a bit of an older pattern but that doesn't matter it's still a very cute one. So this is another idea. So the next two These two are actually also by Osetta, I think she just makes most lovely basic winter chunky knits. So they are nothing very special but they are at a more chunky gauge and they are perfect for winter, as I said. I'm going a little bit quicker with talking about these patterns because I have so many patterns that I want to talk about. You can check them at the Ravelry page for all of these patterns if you want more details about that. That being said, next one on the list is the Great Lakes Pullover by Osetta. So this is a 16 stitch gauge, so also bigger gauge, a bit chunky, will be a quicker knit. And also with a high turtleneck, but one that is not folded over. So as the previous one, just a high one, single layered in a one by one rib. So this one is a knit with a saddle shoulder construction, so different from the past two. Which I have been liking lately. I don't like to knit it, I must say, because it's a lot of separate pieces that you have to pick up stitches and weave in ends and that is something I do not like. However, I do really like the look of it and the fit. Sometimes you just have to knit it because you want to finish the object. But however, this one is at a chunky gauge, so I think it will go by very quickly. It has all of the features that I'm looking for, like a high turtleneck, really cozy and warm layer for the winter, the cold winter days. And it has a saddle shoulder, which is a different construction than what I'm used to. So the next one, as I said, also by Osetta is the Air Sweater. I have been eyeing this one because it has a very special construction as well. it has like i don't know if this is also called a saddle shoulder but it has like one panel going horizontally at the back and then that goes transitions into the sleeves and then the stitches are picked up and then it's knit top down, i think, and i do really love that That look, that visual line at the back, that's actually what I was kind of trying to design myself with the Drops Melody, if you watched one of my previous videos. But I think the pattern is already existing, so I could just maybe knit this one, and I don't have to think about all the designing steps myself. This one is knit with a bulky weight yarn, I have an 18 stitch gauge, so I think it will be a very thick and dense fabric as well, with a nice turtleneck. Which is also not folded over. It's a little different of a turtleneck. It's not like one by one, one by one rib. It has I think like a three by one rib or something, it's hard to tell. But it has a rolled neckline as well. So we have the special rib and then some rolled stockinette stitch which is very popular at the moment. So that is really nice and all of the edges are finished in that way. So that is really nice, it looks like a very warm cozy hug of a sweater. I don't know Which one of these I prefer, but we're not yet through with the turtleneck category, so let's just first continue and then decide which one is my favorite of these. The next one is called the Aiken Sweater by the Knit Purl Girl. This one is also knit at an 18-stitch gauge, but this time with a worsted weight yarn, not with a bulky weight yarn. So this is a beautiful turtleneck sweater. It looks just so polished and neat. It is a folded over turtleneck with a, I don't know, two by two rip or two by one rip, I don't know, but like not a one by one rib. It also has a beautiful shoulder construction, different from the last sweaters that I showed you, that I talked about. It is a contiguous shoulder construction. So I've talked about this a lot in my videos that I really really want to cast on a contiguous shoulder construction. Sweater. I think, now that I think about it, I did it once with like the blouse number one. Is that a contiguous shoulder? Maybe not. However, this one is on my list because it has the cozy, cozy turtleneck folded over. It just looks very neat and with eye for detail. And I really want to get the contiguous shoulder. It has splits. As with him. Also nice. The next one is a very popular sweater, and a bit of an older one as well, and it is the Louvre sweater by PetiteKnit. So it is actually also a turtleneck sweater, but a non-folded over turtleneck. Is it called a turtleneck if it's not folded over? I don't know. Maybe I should have read the definition of a turtleneck before stating this, but I mean like the high neck up until your chin, let's say, that's this category. Never mind. This is like a very, as I said, very popular pattern. It has many, let's see how many projects it has on Ravelry, like 2,800 projects on Ravelry. So it's a very well known, very It's a very... well knit pattern. It has a 20 stitch gauge and it is a basic raglan sweater. So this one may be a little bit too basic for me to knit because I really want to challenge myself with some new constructions. But it is a very beautiful option. A raglan sweater with a high turtleneck. If you knit it with a beautiful yarn, it will be just a lovely, lovely sweater. Next one is a Gilly Jumper by Anne Wenzel, which has a beautiful turtleneck as well, with like a one by one twisted rib, and then a little rolled stockinette stitch edge, which is a very on trend right now, and a very beautiful sweater. It is knit with an Aran weight yarn at a 17 stitch gauge. So it will be a little bit quicker than a regular DK weight sweater. It is knit with raglan increases and then the most prominent detail is then the twisted rib on the neckline and the wrist and the bottom hem. So this is actually a very basic pattern as well with the raglan. I think all of these are a bit basic but because it has like a very prominent neckline with the turtleneck I think it's okay that the rest of the sweater is pretty basic. Although I do like a special shoulder construction and this one is a raglan construction, but you can decide for your own which one you prefer. So the next turtleneck sweater is the sweater number 33 by My Favorite Things Knitwear. This one is knit at a 16 stitch gauge with a lace weight and a worsted weight yarn held together. So it gives a little bit of a fluffy sweater feel. It has like a higher neckline and the ribbing from the neckline is like very wide ribbing, maybe four by one or something like that. And it goes into the raglan, which I always think it's really nice detail when the rib from the neck is going into the raglan lines. It's a very easy detail probably, but I just think it looks very neat, very sleek, very like the designer thought about this. So this one, it's a very basic sweater apart from that, a raglan sweater, higher neckline, same ribbing at the neckline as at the bottom hem and the sleeves. But it's just a very neat one and I really like that this one is a little bit more like a fluffy, a fluffy finish, fluffy fabric, so I think that will be really nice for the winter time as well. It just looks like a very warm sweater, which is what I, exactly what I am looking for. The next three sweaters in the turtleneck category have something else like incorporated, like a little bit of color work or some cabling, but they do, but I did want to put them in this turtleneck category. So the first one I've talked about I think in some previous videos, it's the Norma sweater by My Favorite Things Knitwear. It has a beautiful higher neckline with a one by one rib and it is knit at a 19 stitch gauge with a lace and a sport weight held together. So this is a very well-known pattern as well, so I will not go into it that much. But it is a, as I said, one-by-one rib collar, higher collar with raglan lines, raglan increases, and it has some beautiful like colorwork stripes. So it's not just a regular stripey sweater, it has some colorwork um details into it like a little bump on each stripe and then you just look at the pictures and then you'll see. I've been eyeing this one because it just looks really nice. I think Petite Knit has a similar one, a key sweater, but I do think I like this one better. So the next one is just absolutely gorgeous. It's called the Edith Sweater by Le Knit or Lena Holmstam. This is a more recent sweater that she released and it's knit at a 16 stitch gauge with Two fingering weights held together plus a lace weight giving a Aran weight yarn combination at a 16 stitch gauge. That's the most important. So it is actually a combination of like a stockinette stitch sweater with like a panel of cable. It's very unique. I have never seen anything like this before so I really like when a designer comes up with a unique designing idea. So this is definitely that. And it has a higher collar, hence why this is in the category of turtleneck, when it's not really a turtleneck. So as I said, a beautiful collar which is higher, and then it has like two by two rib panel here around the shoulders, and then you have the panel with the beautiful cables. I think it looks familiar, the cable. I think it's probably one of those very well-known cables, but she really did it in a very unique way. This also looks like a very warm and cozy sweater to wear, very oversized as well. It's designed to have like 20 to 25 centimeter of positive ease, which is actually just like regular ease that you see in these bigger sweaters. So it's not like extremely oversized, you can always make it however you would like. So the last one in the higher neckline, turtleneck thing category is a free pattern actually. It's the Hokkaido sweater by Sigrid Grau from The Cable Knitwear. This is a drop shoulder sweater with some increased lines around the neckline and then a higher neckline and two by two rib and it has some stripes going on the body. It's just a really beautiful sweater. It's knit at a 17 stitch gauge with an Aran weight yarn. I see on the Ravelry page that a lot of people made their own modifications of this sweater, like someone made it into a dress, some people did it without the stripes, some people didn't do like the high neckline but just folded over a smaller neckline like this one, so I think it's a very versatile pattern and it's available for free, so if you have like a yarn and stash that knits up at a 17 stitch gauge, this might be a really nice one. If you need it at a denser gauge, it can be a really beautiful winter sweater. And I always like to add some free pattern inspiration in these videos. So that were 11 sweaters in the turtleneck category. So I don't know which one is my favorite. I am leaning towards either the Aiken sweater from the Knit Pearl Girl, because it's just a very, very cozy turtleneck, or one of those chunky ones like the Winter's Pullover or the Lampy sweater. Because they are just meant to be worn outside in the wintertime. I'll let you know in my planning video which one I decide to pick and to cast on. Next we go into colorwork sweaters which is very appropriate as well for wintertime. I have some round yoke colorwork sweaters. I have some like with a band of colorwork. I do not have an all over colorwork sweater because I just don't enjoy I don't really enjoy knitting color work that much, so if it's just only on the... Only on the collar or just one band I can manage, but if it's more than that, maybe in the future when I'm more trained to do color work. But for now I just keep it as minimal as possible. So there are many color work sweaters in the list, so let's get started. The first one I will start with a free pattern. It's called the Lysa Pullover by Stine Hulgaard-Johansen or Jarboe. So this one has a round yoke colorwork. You have many of these round yoke colorwork sweaters but I just really like this one. It has like the thicker stripes going out like the sun rays and then you have like the diamond shapes and then stripes and it goes also the same on the cuffs of the sleeves which is a very nice detail. It is knit with a worsted weight yarn at a 20 stitch gauge. So I think this is a very beautiful basic and free pattern. Well, not basic, very beautiful. Classic. If you knit it with more neutral colors, I think it can be a very classic one. If you knit it with more bright colors, then it's just such a fun and bright colored sweater. The next one. I have on my list for a pretty long time, so it might be time to cast this one on, and it is the salt burn sweater by the knit purl girl, which is as well a round yoke colorwork sweater, but the colorwork doesn't go like out from the neckline, like like sun rays as I said, but it goes really like around, like a more like a necklace type of colorwork. You get what I mean right? It's a bad explanation, but you can see it on the pictures It goes like. Like this more has some like arrows going. Okay never mind. It is knit at a 17 stitch gauge with a DK weight yarn. So a 17 stitch gauge for DK weight yarn. I would think that it would be a very loose and open gauge sweater with a DK weight yarn at a 17 stitch gauge but maybe she has a special yarn. Oh she used pure gins. I don't know what yarn I would pick for this one but I do want a little bit more of a dense sweater because I'm really looking for those wintery garments. And you know when you knit color work that's already more dense because you have the floats on the back giving like a thicker fabric that keeps you warm during the winter time, so which is really nice. So this might be the sweater I knit, but let's continue because there are many many more beautiful sweaters. So the next one is the Harriet sweater by Le Knit. This one is one where you have the color work panel. On the body and then on the sleeves you have the same like panel and it looks like it's just continuing over the sleeves which is really nice. This one is knit at a 21 stitch gauge with a lace and fingering weight held together which gives like a DK weight yarn. This is what I expect from a DK weight yarn to have a 21 stitch gauge and not a 17 stitch gauge. So this will be a nice and warm sweater because it has like the lace weight, probably mohair yarn, which keeps you very warm. Let's see about the construction. It doesn't really say in the description anything about the construction, but when I look at the pictures I think it's just a regular drop shoulder construction. And it has a one by one rib, collar and the sleeves and the... Body bottom hem are also one by one ribbed. It's just like a very standard flowery color work but I just I don't know why but I just think it looks very beautiful and very wintery appropriate. The next one on the list is called the Bloom Pullover by Brianna Mason from Woolbirds. This one is a thicker gauge at a 16 stitch gauge knit with an Aran weight yarn. But this is actually a very very beautiful color work sweater and I think Maybe even very appropriate for wintertime at an Aran weight yarn with a bigger gauge. It has some beautiful flowers, it has some chevron, it has like really everything. And it goes from one color at the top to another color at the bottom. It gives a little bit of a gradient, but then it uses color work to get that gradient, which is so so so nice. I also really like the color she chose. I really like that deep red at the bottom and then the contrast beige that she uses. A really nice sweater. And I think because it's at a 16-stitch gauge, I think this one will knit up very quickly. It is a round yoke sweater with a 2x2 ribbed collar. It just looks so warm and cozy and I think it might be fun to knit because I think there are no long floats which is very important to me that there are no long floats because that is just not fun to knit. So this one might be high up on my color work list. So next one is the Lume Pullover by Starry Northland. Very popular one. It's this round yoke sweater with flowers and as I said with salt burn sweater it's more like a necklace type round yoke more than a sun ray round yoke. And it's beautiful that the color work on the yoke also is incorporated into the sleeves which is really really nice. This is a very beautiful sweater, it's at an 18 stitch gauge, knit with a worsted weight yarn. It's an older pattern from 2021, but I think it's still very relevant and very beautiful. Next one is actually an all-over, well, an almost all-over colorwork sweater. The only one, but it's very beautiful. It's the Daisy Chain sweater by Victoria Fassbender. It's a new pattern from October 2026, and it's knit with a DK weight yarn at a 19 stitch gauge. So it's with beautiful, like daisy chains, I guess, because that's in the name. It's a very beautiful sweater, actually. It's more of this unique type of colorwork that you don't really see a lot. And it's more colorwork in this direction, like vertical. And the sleeves are just like a striped colorwork, maybe like with slip stitches. I don't really, I cannot really tell, but it's very beautiful. It is knit with a raglan increases. So this is a very unique, very unique, very beautiful pattern. But I don't think I will knit it because it's all over color work and it has some maybe some rows with three strands of different color or maybe not. Maybe she was smart and didn't do that because it makes it so much more complicated when you have three different colors in one row. Okay almost there with the color work sweater. So the next one is also a free pattern and it's called the This is the Sipo Sweater by Myla Turunen. And it's at a 21 stitch gauge with a DK weight yarn and it is just like a round yoke uh colorwork sweater. But it's a free one so it's nice if you want to try if you want to try those round yoke colorwork sweaters. And I do think it looks very beautiful. It has more of a unique neckline I think because the colorwork really um goes into the neckline which you don't often see. Mostly it stops here and then you have like a one by one rib. in a plain color but this one really has a colorwork transfer into the ribbing which is a very unique way of doing colorwork sweaters so it's actually really cool and then this is a free pattern so it makes it even cooler. the last one is not really like a colorwork sweater but i did want to include it and it is called the weekend sweater in alpaca from Siv Gibson Olsen And it is a very chunky uh colorwork-ish sweater. So this is knit at a nine stitch gauge using bulky weight yarn and it's more like a stripey sweater but it has like a little bit a little bit extra so I can call it a colorwork sweater. But it is just very chunky so it will be a very quick knit so if you have any yarn in stash at a nine stitch gauge and this might be like a very quick and fun wintery knit if you would like that so i can already tell that this video will be so so long so i will maybe keep it a little bit shorter than initially planned because i don't want it to be too too long because it will be a lot of editing as well but let's get into the cables sweaters maybe that will be my last category for this video So the first one on this list is the one that I have been looking at for the longest, longest time. And it is a sweater number 20 by My Favorite Things. And it is the very famous cabled cardigan, cabled sweater with the deep and chunky v-neck. It is knit with an Aran weight yarn at a 21 stitch gauge in the cable pattern, and it looks like a very thick, very warm, very chunky, chunky sweater. And I really love the look of it, I think it will be very cozy, very warm, and it's so very unique with the thick v-neck, which I really like. The only downside is that it only has three sizes, but I think for me that it will be a size, it's just so oversized, like the smallest size will be very oversized for me, but we'll see how I make it work, maybe I'll use them. A different gauge or something. We'll see when I cast on. But this one is just so beautiful. I do think you have to like style it a little bit because it can be like a very chunky sack if you don't style it beautifully. But it's just so so beautiful. It has a modified drop shoulder and then the cables going vertically and then it has the big chunky v-neck. So I think this one is a very beautiful cabled sweater. The next one is the Gwynver sweater by the Knit Pearl Girl It is knit at an 18-stitch gauge with a worsted weight yarn. So the 18-stitch gauge is in the moss stitch, so it is also a very beautiful cabled sweater with cables. I think it only has one cable down the middle actually, the vertical cable in the middle, and then it has some textured panels, but it just really goes well with the cable in the middle. So it looks like an all-over cabled sweater, but I think you will only need to do cabling at the front I don't really mind cabling but if you don't like cabling then this might be a really good option where you get the look of a cable sweater but it's actually more like a textured sweater with knits and purls and yarn overs and knit two togethers and all that and good stuff. So this one is a very beautiful one and actually I've been waiting for like a whole year for this one to have a v-neck sweater because the knit pearl girl she teased us and told us that she was working on a v-neck version of this one and I've been patiently waiting but still not released. I haven't seen the tester call out yet so I think it will be far from released. So I might wait to knit this sweater when the v-neck pattern comes out but I do think this is a very beautiful one. So the next one is also a very extremely popular pattern and it's called the Arctic Light sweater by Veronica Lindberg or Kutovakika. I think she also has a three-part YouTube tutorial about how to knit this so if you think you look at this and you think oh this is so intimidating I cannot do it I think you can if you watch those videos. I haven't watched those myself but I think it's a three-part video. I think it will explain the sweater pretty good. So it's actually a raglan sweater with vertical cabling. It has a lot of cables and then with one by one twisted details. So as I said a very popular pattern. It's knit with a DK weight yarn at a 22 stitch gauge. So it's been out for a few years now and I've been thinking about knitting it but there's something about it that makes it look very bulky here at the shoulder area. And I am like a wide shouldered person, so I don't think that will suit me very much. But if you are like a petite, a petite shouldered person, then this might look very good on you. But so I don't think, so I think I will pass on this sweater for that reason, but it's just such a beautiful sweater. Next one on the list is called the Sirena sweater by Cookie the Knitter. It is one of those very common cabled sweaters with the big Criss-cross cable at the front and then some other cables to the side and then with some moss stitch or something in between those very big diamond shapes and then some moss stitch at the sleeves as well. So this is actually one of those many many cable sweaters but this is just an example that you can knit. This is knit with an Aran weight yarn at a 16 stitch gauge so this So this is a little bit of a denser sweater which i'm looking for as you know if you watched this video i'm looking for a very dense and warm winter sweater and i think this one just might do it it is a drop shoulder sweater knit top down as i said you have many many of these patterns i think PetiteKnit has has one like the Moby sweater i think might be very similar oh no it has like the the lattice So that's the next sweater on the list, by the way, the Moby Sweater by PetiteKnit. It is knit with a worsted weight yarn at a 20 stitch gauge. It also has like the middle panel with, is it lattice? I don't know, diamonds, like smaller diamonds. And then at the shoulders, you have these other cables going down. It's also a very, not very unique type of cable sweater. You see so many of these, so you can just pick one that you really like. I have another one that is very similar to the previous one and it is called the number two Wilbur Sweater Ladies from Sandnes Garn and this is a free pattern actually at a 20 stitch gauge with a worsted weight yarn. So it also has some cabling panel at the middle and then some cables going down from the shoulder, so it's very similar to the Moby Sweater. So this is like a free alternative if you like. If you like that. So those were the cable sweaters I wanted to talk about. So I'm going really quickly now because this video is getting really long. I actually had some textured knits and some chunky cardigans and some hats planned. But I think it will be just too, too long. And I don't really have a lot of time left to film this video. So maybe if there is some interest, I can do a part two of this video with, as I said, more textured sweaters and like a big chunky cardigans and hats and more like accessories maybe as well. I could do that in the future, but for now let's keep it where we are now. It will be long enough. So let me know in the comments down below which were your favorite sweaters. If you have some other sweaters that fit into these categories which you really think I should know or we should all know about. I'm really curious to see what you will knit this winter time around. So thank you so much for joining me for today's video and I hope I will see you next time. Don't forget to subscribe. Bye!