Last Wednesday, I shared about the knitting challenge headed your way so soon. If you missed that last video, take a quick minute to check out all the details right here.

If you are just looking for the available Bonfire Shawl kit colorways, click here for the original super bulky version and click here for the lighter weight worsted/Aran version.

If you're here for all the details though, read on!

In our Bonfire Shawl challenge, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your knitting skills, connect with other makers and dive deep into your own creativity. You’ll finish with a stunning statement shawl to wear with joy and pride because YOU MADE IT! In today’s blog, I share all of the available color combos (there are over 30!) we’ve put together for you so that you can decide which one you like best before we officially open up registration on Wednesday, Feb 19th.

Ok first up, the color combination details for the original version of the Bonfire Shawl! For this pattern, you'll need one skein of either Spun Cloud or Sister yarn and one Mini Skein Sampler Kit. Our Spun Cloud yarn is a bulky thick and thin wool yarn that is spun with two tiny strands of silver and gold lurex plied around it. The sparkle is ever so subtle but if you prefer to go sparkle free, Sister has the same gauge and fiber content without the glam! We mix the Spun Cloud/Sister with 5 contrasting colors that come packed together as a Mini Skein Sampler Kit. Inside each of these kits you get one mini skein (17 yds each) of five different yarns (Spun Cloud, Cast Away, Wildflower, Dreamland, and Daisy Chain). These contrast colors give you the opportunity to play with both color and texture to your heart's content. Just knitting with this yarn is a happy little adventure!

Peruse all of the available color combinations at the link below.

Bonfire Shawl Color Combinations ~ OG Version

We have very, VERY few Spun Cloud skeins and Mini Skein Sampler kits left, in some cases less than 10. If you have your heart set on a special kit, please order early to ensure you get what you like! No more is slated to arrive until April. Please feel free to reach out and ask me any and all questions in the blog comments below.

Next up we have the color combination details for the reimagined lighter weight worsted/Aran version of the Bonfire Shawl! For this version, we use two skeins of our Serenity yarn as the main color, one additional skein of Serenity in a contrasting color, and 2 skeins of our Wildflower yarn for an additional pop of color and texture. Our Serenity yarn is a brushed boucle yarn that's unlike anything else in the Knit Collage family. The cozy texture it creates is reminiscent of your favorite fleece jacket or a worn in sheep skin throw. The fiber content is a blend of 85% wool and 15% nylon. Our Wildflower yarn is a fabric tape yarn made of 100% cotton that is screenprinted by hand with unique patterns in Jaipur, India. The prints are inspired by vintage treasures both from India and the states! After the fabric is printed, it’s sent up to our team of spinners who then laser cut it into long strips. The strips are knotted together to make yarn and viola you’ve got Wildflower. The mix of these two textured yarns together makes for a super interesting fabric both visually and tactilely.

Peruse all of the available color combinations for the Bonfire Light at the link below.

Bonfire Light Color Combinations 

Okay, that's it for color info! Here are the rest of the pattern details and Challenge info in case you missed the post the other day. As Always, please feel free to reach out in the comments with any Qs you might have or shoot an email to hello@knitcollage.com and we will be sure to get back to you asap.

Bonfire Shawl Original Version

Pattern Details:

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Knitter

Materials: 

1 skein Spun Cloud or Sister yarn (MC) and 1 Mini Skein Sampler Kit (CCs)

Needle Size:

Size US 17 (12.75mm) circular needles, 40” length or size needed to obtain gauge

Gauge:
6 sts and 12 rows = 4”/10cm in stitch pattern in the MC yarn, steam blocked

Finished Measurements:  

79.5” / 202 cm at widest (bottom edge before Picot Bind off) x 14”/35.5 cm deep at center point

Pattern Designer: Annie Lupton of Boho Chic Fiber Co

Bonfire Shawl Lightweight Version

The original version of the Bonfire Shawl Light was created as a limited edition collab with Handspun Hope using our Serenity boucle yarn, their worsted weight handspun yarn, and our Daisy Chain yarn. We have reimagined the Bonfire Light into an ultra-wearable 4-season accessory that uses our Serenity Boucle yarn for both MCs and our Wildflower cotton yarn for the CC. Updated photos to come later this Spring!

Pattern Details:

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Knitter

Materials: 

Needle Size:

Gauge:

8 sts and 12 rows = 4” / 10 cm in MC (Serenity), wet blocked

Finished Measurements:  

Pattern Designer: Annie Lupton of Boho Chic Fiber Co

The Kit pricing is $128 for the OG Bonfire Shawl and $168 for the light version (more yarn AND a slightly larger finished shawl!). 

If you would like to use your own stash or handspun yarns, that is AWESOME. Make sure your yarns are similar yarn weights to our yarns listed here and that they will work with the needle size and gauge listed. 

Virtual option pricing: $26 (our yarn kits include pricing for all the challenge deliverables like the pattern, video classes, zoom help sessions and that awesome bonus bundle!)

Inside the 14 day knitting challenge you’ll get:

• Easy-to follow video courses on how to knit both the original Bonfire Shawl pattern AND the light weight edition from start to finish. You just need to know the very basic knit and purl stitches to join in! The courses are yours forever, all hosted within our Knit Collage App
• Techniques you'll learn: garter tab shawl start, how to knit the Linen stitch, double increase stitches, a picot edge border, and so much more!
• A downloadable workbook with both patterns and our best tips and resources for knitting success.
• Seven live zoom sessions with me, your teacher, and one of the Knit Collage coaches to help answer in the moment questions.
• Access to our private Challenge community space within the Knit Collage App to answer all of your questions and receive technical support. We are a welcoming, energetic, and kind community of members to hold you accountable and keep you motivated to actually complete your project.
  
• You have the option to order a yarn kit from us or use your own yarn and join in with the virtual option.
• Finish with a closing celebration party and community fashion show!

Bonus:

10 bonus tutorial videos valued at $32 where I teach how to wind yarn, the best tools to support your knitting practice, how to needle felt ends so that you can save yourself time finishing your project and so much more!

We open up registration on Feb 19^th at 10am ET for both the virtual option, priced at $26 and the yarn kit option at $128/$168 and we would so love to have you join us!

Hi there! If you are new here, my name is Amy Small and I am the owner and founder of Knit Collage. Welcome! Next week, we kick off a new iteration of our knitting challenge, where as a community we will knit the Bonfire Crescent Shawl pattern by Annie Lupton. Check out the video below to hear all the details!

The Knit Collage team and I will be here to support you and answer any questions that you may have along the way so that you happily finish with something you adore. Together, we’ll jumpstart your knitting practice, so that you get to experience the amazing benefits that come from knitting things – increased creativity and a healthy tool you can lean anytime into to bring about calm and peace, just to name a few! We kick the adventure off on March 1, 2024.

Inside the 14 day knitting challenge you’ll get:

• Easy-to follow video courses on how to knit both the original Bonfire Shawl pattern AND the light weight edition from start to finish. You just need to know the very basic knit and purl stitches to join in! The courses are yours forever, all hosted within our Knit Collage App
• Techniques you'll learn: garter tab shawl start, how to knit the Linen stitch, double increase stitches, a picot edge border, and so much more!
• A downloadable workbook with both patterns and our best tips and resources for knitting success.
• Seven live zoom sessions with me, your teacher, and one of the Knit Collage coaches to help answer in the moment questions.
• Access to our private Challenge community space within the Knit Collage App to answer all of your questions and receive technical support. We are a welcoming, energetic, and kind community of members to hold you accountable and keep you motivated to actually complete your project.
  
• You have the option to order a yarn kit from us or use your own yarn and join in with the virtual option.
• Finish with a closing celebration party and community fashion show!

Bonus:

10 bonus tutorial videos valued at $32 where I teach how to wind yarn, the best tools to support your knitting practice, how to needle felt ends so that you can save yourself time finishing your project and so much more!

We open up registration on Feb 19^th at 10am ET for both the virtual option, priced at $26 and the yarn kit options which are $128 for the OG Spun Cloud/ Sister + Mini Skein sampler version and $168 for the newer, lighter weight version that uses Serenity and Wildflower yarn. The lightweight version is a bit larger than the original and uses more yarn, both options create incredible statement shawls. We would so love to have you join us!

Here are the yarn, gauge and sizing details for both versions if you know you'd like to go with the virtual option and want to source (or maybe spin?!) yarn on your own.

Bonfire Shawl Original Version

Pattern Details:

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Knitter

Materials: 

1 skein Spun Cloud or Sister yarn (MC) and 1 Mini Skein Sampler Kit (CCs)

Needle Size:

Size US 17 (12.75mm) circular needles, 40” length or size needed to obtain gauge

Gauge:
6 sts and 12 rows = 4”/10cm in stitch pattern in the MC yarn, steam blocked

Finished Measurements:  

79.5” / 202 cm at widest (bottom edge before Picot Bind off) x 14”/35.5 cm deep at center point

Pattern Designer: Annie Lupton of Boho Chic Fiber Co

Bonfire Shawl Lightweight Version

The original version of the Bonfire Shawl Light was created as a limited edition collab with Handspun Hope using our Serenity boucle yarn, their worsted weight handspun yarn, and our Daisy Chain yarn. We have reimagined the Bonfire Light into an ultra-wearable 4-season accessory that uses our Serenity Boucle yarn for both MCs and our Wildflower cotton yarn for the CC. Updated photos to come later this Spring!

Pattern Details:

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Knitter

Materials: 

Needle Size:

Gauge:

8 sts and 12 rows = 4” / 10 cm in MC (Serenity), wet blocked

Finished Measurements:  

Pattern Designer: Annie Lupton of Boho Chic Fiber Co

I so hope you'll consider joining in. On Friday, I'll share a blog post with more pics of both versions of the pattern and deep dive on all the color options (my favorite part!). I am so excited for it! AND If you are a beginner knitter, this is for you. Our team plus the video tutorials are there to guide and support you. When you're starting out, you need the most help and support - that's what this challenge is all about! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

Amy

The Fall Knitalong and Solstice Challenge are behind us. So many new friendships were made and stunning projects completed! I'd love to keep that momentum going and inspire you to keep making all the things. With this in mind, I'm excited to tell you a little bit about our Creative Knitters membership. It ties into our yarns and our make-alongs (think early access to the kits and new products) but goes way beyond our yarns and include a video vault of techniques as well as ways to get knitting and crochet help (on any pattern or any yarn)...not to mention learning-packed classes and a cheerleading, inclusive community—all housed in our Knit Collage App!

Alrighty so here is what you get ~ it's a whole lot!

A video vault – This is geared to all levels of knitters but will be especially beneficial to beginner knitters to start. The video vault is yours forever and hosted right in our Knit Collage App. Right when you join, you’ll get access to the 130+ videos tutorials - simple basics like – how to read a yarn label, what is the difference between yarn weights, our favorite tools, simple cast on and knit stitch tutorials. This is all the stuff that I wish I had known when I started knitting. I spent hours on youtube looking for tutorials – it was painful. This is a one stop place for simple, clear videos. You’ll also find more advanced tutorials on short rows, colorwork, lace, blocking, brioche, intarsia and more!

Events - Each month we have one to two virtual learning events, centered around a monthly theme! Last year, we learned how to stack stitches with Xandy Peters, knit Fair Isle with Helene Driesen, how to incorporate beads into our knits with Laura Nelkin, and just last week we learned how to knit lace with Andre dé Castro – the list goes on! Members from Knit Collage also lead us in events – Cheryl and Anne taught us how to knit socks, and Pia taught us how to weave a gorgeous fabric to turn into a notions pouch. These are fun way for us to up level our skills and connect as a community. All of these zoom events and webinars are recorded

Community - Making in community is just better. It’s about accountability and cheerleading and it’s just so much more fun that way! Our community space is hosted 100% within our own Knit Collage App and we encourage you to connect and cheerlead each other. Posts here can be about any project, any yarn. We love it all! We’ll host Zoom calls twice a month in addition to the monthly events. All of them are recorded if you would like to watch them later. We connect you by location and by your cohort of folks you joined with to foster a small group feel. If you want to meet up with folks that live near you in real life, fantastic.

This is a great place to say too – that all skill sets will be welcome. Expert knitters know that ripping is part of knitting. Even after knitting for 20+ years I still constantly make mistakes and it stinks but then I learn and grow. My hope for this community is that it is a place where any skill set will feel comfortable to share their wins and failures – because we’ve all been there and that is part of getting better.

Help - What happens when you realize you’ve made a seemingly fatal knitting error and there’s nothing else you can do?!!!!!! You need help or else the entire project may be tossed to the wayside never to be returned to again. When I started knitted this very problem led to many an unfinished project. We’ve come up with something really cool here for you to get the help you need, when you need it. If you’ve done our knitalongs (KALs) before you might know Cheryl and Pia – our knitting guru/goddess/tech queens. They both help knitters out all the time in our KALs. But now they’ll be helping you with any yarn/any project – not just made with Knit Collage yarn and patterns. You’ll sign up for a thirty minute time slot to zoom with one of them and get any kind of knitting help that you might need. Think of it like your virtual knit helper when you need it. My hope is that this will get you finishing more projects with anxiety!

Early Access - The next thing and this is a big one – you’ll get early access to our KALs and now Challenges too! In the past fall and spring KALs we sold out of some colors within minutes. This will give a leg up to make sure you get the colors you love. You’ll also get early access to other Knit Collage new releases – any new yarns, patterns and products that I don’t plan to always keep in stock as well as sale yarns. You will get first dibs! This comes in especially clutch for limited releases like the Amanda Solomon collab yarn.

 All of our yarn is handmade in India – not only is it time intensive to make, we only get shipments at very particular times during the year. The lead times we are working with keep getting longer which means I have to decide earlier and earlier what I need to order – it’s so tricky to say the least! Despite my best efforts, it is near impossible to guess each time correctly….which means getting that early access will definitely come in handy to ensure you get exactly what you like.

$10 monthly credit - You’ll also get a $10 credit to use on the Knit Collage website every month. If you don’t use it one month, it will simply roll over to the next month. If you’re so inclined, you can save these all up to use towards our knitalongs.

Ok so that is it, I think I covered everything! The cost is $38 per month- a cost will likely increase each time we open registration because we keep adding more tutorials and class recordings to what you get.

Registration will be open for one week only. The next time to be able to join may be in about 6 months from now – July 2025. If we get a lot of interest right now we may not open it again for another year or so. This time around you have the option to sign up for a 6 month membership and get one month free along with all 6 months of loyalty points up front!

Registration will open on January 22nd at 10am ET and stay open for one week, closing on January 29th. Then the fun begins. Right when you join, you get access to that video vault and the community.

If you feel your inner artist calling to explore and go deeper or if you’ve simply joined in our knitalongs or challenges and enjoyed the experience, I invite you to join me on a new, friend-filled creative adventure. Let me know in the comments if you have any questions and if there’s one aspect of the membership that interests you the most. I’d love to hear it!