October Wedding Collection

I'd like to show you some peeks at the October Wedding Collection and let you know a bit more about how it will come together.

I was inspired to create this small collection of about four designs through a couple things: the desire to enable and encourage more people to be makers for their own wedding, and to emphasize that the wedding is about everyone who's there. It's not just the bride, and it's not even just the couple. There's all the guests, too. They're special and important enough to the lives of the couple to be invited, and they're an integral part of the celebrations.

So this collection is intended to have pieces that can be used by the couple, but also by any of the guests. And even beyond the wedding day itself! Some of these designs can be worn standing in the chilly autumn air waiting at the bus stop as much as standing in front of family and friends, dressed more formally.
 
Here's a peek at one of the swatches for the collection, in the beautiful Anzula For Better or Worsted. Is that not the perfect yarn for this collection?!

October Wedding Collection Teaser

October Wedding Collection update!
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'm working away on this very timely collection, and here's some proof for ya:

Sometimes there's nifty design ideas that pop in to your head and you just get so damn excited for them. This is one of them. I can't WAIT to wear it. And I can't wait to show it to you! (but I will. I will wait. Because that's part of the fun. TEASER! Hehehe).

The beautifully lofty yarn you see here is Berroco's new Ultra Alpaca Chunky and it's SO lovely to work with. Mmmm....

October Wedding Collection

As you might be able to tell, I like putting together pattern collections.

And I've found the best inspiration and motivation for them lies in things that I feel excited and passionate about. Previously I've designed around my love for the outdoors, different times of the year, and my fascination with ghosts. Now, I'm focusing on the intersection between my favourite month, something quite topical, and celebrations that I love.

The October Wedding Collection is inspired by my own October wedding. It's a fantastic time of year, and one that it seems more and more people are choosing for their marriage celebrations. And at least in my part of the world, October can be a somewhat chilly month. Making it PERFECT for cozy, fun, and elegant (but you know, with my twist of the weirdness) handknits.

Even if I wasn't getting married in October, I have to admit that I love weddings. I love a bit of pomp and circumstance. I love fancy outfits. I love seeing how different people bring out their personalities in different ways. And most of all, I bloody love parties. I think bringing together family and friends is one of the things that makes life a worthwhile experience. It's important to celebrate with people you love.¹

Weddings can be about what you want them to be about. And I want mine to be about eating damn good food in a room filled with people I love. And dancing like fools. And maybe (no, definitely) getting some drinky drink in there too.

Oh, and MAKING for it.

I want to enable as much making as possible. And why not make things that you and your guests can use? Items that are small and quick or large and epic enough to be functional and lovely?

Here you see some yarn that sits patiently, waiting to be knit up into a sample for the October Wedding Collection. It's going to be a quick-knit, but EPIC shrug. I can't wait to wear this! And I really can't wait for you to see it!

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¹ And I do feel I should note: there are plenty of things I DON'T like about The Modern Wedding Complex.  I come from a place of feminist ethics that disagrees with many of the stereotypical trappings and social pressures/expectations that come with contemporary weddings.