Knit Trends for Fall

It's officially fall!  I think I've been saying that every day for the last 2 weeks or so.  So happy!  Not that you would know it in California.  We had a heat wave for a while.  Luckily, the weather finally started to turn this week.  There are leaves on the ground, all brown and orange colored.  It's magnificent.  Not quite an east coast fall, but good enough for me!


Anyway, I've been knitting away like crazy because I'm getting ready to open my own etsy shop!  Actually, I knit like crazy anyway, and that's more the reason why I'm opening the shop, haha.  Anyway, I was super excited to see chunky knits, scarves and fingerless gloves, in the upcoming fall trends, since those are some of my favorite things to make.

I've been looking at photos from the recent fall collection shows from Milan, Paris and New York.  I've been noticing all these great knit details like shoulder wraps, chunky scarves and "snoods".  All from the likes of Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and many others.

One of the other trends I've noticed becoming really popular this season from all the runway shows is gloves!  Leather, metallics, knits.  Lots and lots of gloves.  I just started getting into knitting fingerless gloves.  I didn't think that I would like them as much as I do, but after some complications with my baby alpaca scarf, I decided to find a new use for my yarn stash.  After seeing some fingerless gloves in the Eileen Fisher fall collection, I was inspired to design my own.

Another specific knit trend I noticed is detail.  Lots of cables and specialized stitches - seed stitch, honeycomb, ribs, etc.

I enjoyed seeing some knit trends listed in Lauren Conrad's October Style Tips.  She's definitely one of my favorite everyday style icons. 

Seeing all these photos has provided me with lots of inspiration for new projects I want to finish.

I end up with so many finished projects, I don't know what to do with all!  I've been working on Christmas gifts all year, and now I'm building a collection to sell at my work's craft fair, and like I said, online.  I'll be posting a link to my store on here the same day it launches, but for now you'll just have to sit tight with some sneak peeks at what I am working on and have finished for the fall.  I just sold my first scarf of the season.  It was a great start to autumn!

Here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on and what you can expect to see in my store when it opens later this month:

 

 Happy October! :)