Club FDC: Free Patterns from Filatura Di Crosa

CLUB FDC, ISSUE NUMBER SEVENTEEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Inside CLUB FDC:

TEMPO tweed yarn introduces Missoni-style colorations into your knitting

Check out nine great TEMPO designs in Filatura Di Crosa pattern collections

Make Simple Styles Sophisticated
with Tweed Textures in TEMPO Yarn

Yarns with texture and tweed effects are a simple, yet showstopping, way of adding visual interest and trendy appeal to your knitted wardrobe. We've designed the newest shades of TEMPO yarn to capture the colors of the season and combine them into one yarn that makes wonderful striping, texture and tweed results in your knitting!

Above : The play of colors in the Missoni spring/summer 2011 collection inspired our newest tweed shades in TEMPO yarn.

An exciting self-striping cotton-blend yarn - Tempo. It's a subtly rustic yarn that combines multicolored or tone-on-tone prints,a contrasting thick & thin strand, and a nubby tweed.

The resulting yarn is full of textural interest and a tweed color effect, and it comes in a sophisticated color palette that makes the most of the self-patterning ease of a yarn designed to do the work for you!

The Filatura Di Crosa Tempo Collection is a symphony of four refreshing summer styles to knit in Tempo- a cotton blend that's perfect for warm weather in Missoni-look color patterning.

This booklet features a colorwork chevron-pattern tank, a simple tee, an asymmetrical colorblocked vest, and a cropped jacket.

Simple styles are ideal to let the textural tweed effect and tonal colorations of Tempo create lots of visual impact, and the five designs for this yarn in the Filatura Di Crosa Spring/Summer 2011 Collection booklet use this simplicity as their strength. We've created a simple pullover, a cap-sleeve cropped cardigan, a lacy tank, a boxy one-button cardigan and a Grecian-style tank to show off the beauty of this yarn.

When you pick a fabulous yarn, even simple knitting creates stunning wardrobe pieces!

Free Pattern: Largo Tank Get started knitting fabulous fabrics with Tempo with this simple go-to tank. It's another example of a classic, wearable garment shape that transforms into a "wow" piece when you knit it in Tempo!

The V-neckline and raglan-style decreases create flattering, shoulder-baring lines. The center cable adds just enough detailing to imbue this tank with lots of style.

This pattern is available as a free download- just click here to add it to your collection!