Norah Gaughan Designs

As I am admittedly obsessed with knitting, a large amount of my time is spent combing through media I get on my iPad. Information can come from yarn companies, yarn shops near and far, YouTube subscriptions, from Facebook groups I have chosen and Pinterest, but by far the best information source for me in Ravelry. If you don't hear from me for hours at a time it is because I have been sucked into the Ravelry vortex of lovely patterns.

It is because of this looking on Ravelry I have found designers like Norah Gaughan. Norah lives in New Hampshire in the States and her takes on knitted designs suit my tastes. I have followed her as she worked for Berroco yarns, Vogue Knitting and Brooklyn Tweed. Since 2006 she has moved out on her own expanding on her over 1,000 designs.

Recently on a yarn run with Pam and Tena I found one of the collections Norah Gaughan had done for Berroco called Volume 15: Maritime Journey. The booklet contains 14 designs and as I perused it I realized I would happily knit all of them. Since it cost merely $8.25 CAD/$6.50 USD I snatched it up. That means it costs less than $.60/pattern CAD and even less in USD. Plus all the charts are each on a full-sized sheet of paper meaning there will be no need to expand the size to clearly see the marking. It is a booklet prepared for a knitter.

Here are a few images from the booklet:

This is just a sample but each suits my style and are knit with either worsted or aran weight yarn on rather large needles. I can see me busy with sweater knitting for some time to come. (The sweaters I have been making lately are on much smaller needles and lighter weight yarn.)

So even though on that shopping trip with Tena and Pam no yarn was purchased, certainly inspiration for future yarn purchases were inspired.

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