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!

Two-Color Brioche Hat

Giving Hat

Cocoon Cardigan
by Ainur Berkimbay

Big Cuff Hat

Warm Wishes Hot Water Bottle Cover

Ruffle Socks

Fox Trail Hat + Mittens

Sketch Shawl

Easy Scalloped Washcloth + Hand Towels

Basket Bag

Spring Top

Charm Blanket

Pinwheel Blanket
by Ksenia Naidyon

If You Knit, You Know Hat

Cloudberry Bandana

Classic Knit Beret

Florette Cowl

Gable Wrap

Knit + Fold Slippers

True Knit Shawl

Simple Tee

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 35 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!