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Best Of 2025
From dappled tweed to downy mohair, every yarn is a language, and in 2025, we paid especially close attention to the message of each yarn. It seemed inevitable that our 100% Andean highland wool Till would become the quintessential Giving Hat and that 100% cashmere Nigh DK would be the softest hot water bottle cover ever. And if yarn is the language, then design tells the story. Small, considered details, like scalloped edges and elevated ruffles, brought a sense of nostalgia and sweetness, while playful construction, from octagonal motifs joined into blankets to slippers knit flat and folded into shape, engaged our curious knitting minds. We loved every minute of sharing with you!
2025’s Best Knitting Patterns
We shared more than 60 brand new knitting patterns this year… Here are our favorites!
2025’s New Yarns
In 2025, we worked with amazing mills all over the world to design 12 brand-new yarn collections, each one born out of our deep love for the feeling of yarn in our hands. We now have nearly 60 different yarns, intentionally created to inspire us all to make beautiful things. This year we also added dozens of spectacular new colors to some of your all-time favorite yarn collections—from toasty pinks to acidy yellows and mossy greens, revisit yarns you’ve loved before in gorgeous new colors! Explore the newcomers, play with fiber and color, and discover the yarn you’ll be excited to cast on with again and again.
Paintbrush Mohair
Kid Mohair + Peruvian Pima Cotton
Nine-Note Bundle
New Color
Extra Fine Merino + Baby Alpaca
Estuary
Fine Merino + Mulberry Silk + Linen
June Worsted
Organically Grown Cotton + Linen
Daily Wool Worsted
New Colors
Superwash Wool
Pouf
New Colors
Alpaca + Highland Wool
Sketchbook Cotton
Unmercerized Cotton
Knitting Yarn DK
New Colors
New Zealand Merino
Wild Donegal
Merino Irish Tweed
Stormy Superwash Sock
Superwash Merino + Recycled Nylon
Partridge Superwash
Single-Ply Superwash Wool
Nigh Aran
Pure Mongolian Cashmere
Vinter Wool
Norwegian White Sheep + Norwegian Wildsheep Wool
Cotton Chirp DK 100-Gram Balls
Peruvian Pima Cotton
Witch Hazel
New Colors
Pima Cotton
Big Mountain Cormo Worsted
Undyed Cormo Wool
Note
New Colors
Extra Fine Merino + Baby Alpaca
Goldenberry Alpaca
Hand-Dyed Baby Alpaca
Thank you for an amazing year, and we wish you inspiration, beauty, and lots of knitting in the one to come… We can’t wait to see what you create! Happy knitting!
Story written by Andrea Lotz + Whitney Van Nes for Purl Soho
Looking for more inspiration? Explore all of our knitting patterns (including tons of free knitting patterns) and knitting tutorials, buy one of our many knitting kits and yarn bundles, and shop for beautiful yarn. We have over 55 gorgeous natural fiber yarns in 100’s of magnificent colors, designed to bring integrity, beauty, and joy to your next knitting project and only available at Purl Soho!
I would like to knit the cocoon cardigan but I and short. Is it possible to shorten the length of the piece?
Hi Amanda,
Thanks so much for reaching out! So glad to see that the Cocoon Cardigan caught your eye, and I’m happy to consider this with you!
We’ve spoken with the designer about this modification. She suggests making this modification, as you are knitting in the round and increasing the sleeve stitches. When you are working on the stitches solely in that section between the BOR and the first marker, you can decrease the frequency of your increases to shorten it! Once you’ve increased the sleeve to your preference, you can then proceed to the short row shaping.
I hope this is helpful! Please feel free to reach back out anytime.
All the best,
Hills
Thanks so much for your quick reply. Can this pattern be done in Aran weight yarn?
Hi Amanda,
Thanks so much for your reply, and I’m happy to help you consider this idea!
This pattern is written for a light worsted/dk-weight yarn. If you’re able to reach the gauge listed in the pattern and like the look and feel of the resulting fabric, then you should be good to go! If you’re not able to match the gauge in the pattern, the garment will be a different size than our sample. Sadly, it’s a bit complex to grade patterns for different bodies, and the changes wouldn’t be directly proportional to a larger size, either. I would suggest knitting and blocking a gauge swatch with the yarn you’d like to use. This will be the best chance to see what needles you might need to reach gauge, and whether you love the finished fabric!
You may like to consider Note or Cashmere Merino Bloom as substitutes for Knitting Yarn DK. We’re happy to make other recommendations anytime. You might also enjoy reading more about yarn substitution in our article on the subject, “Yarn Substitution Made Easy.” I hope this helps!
All the best,
Hills