November 19, 2024 in Brown Sheep

Join the New Rose Frost Sweater Winter Knit Along!

This January Brown Sheep will reveal a new, free colorwork sweater from designer Sophia Minakais: the Rose Frost Sweater. We’re so excited about this new design, we wanted to celebrate it with a winter sweater knit along!

The Rose Frost Sweater

A colorwork sweater in great, cream, pink and maroon folded with the sleeves atop the body

The Rose Frost Sweater is knit with Lamb’s Pride in 4 colors for maximum impact. Knitters can also choose to knit the sweater with just two colors, or three colors. With 80+ colors of Lamb’s Pride available, the combinations feel truly endless. We can’t wait to see all of the different versions knitters make!

The Rose Frost Sweater is a great pattern for beginners to colorwork knitting. The sweater features a circular-yoke colorwork design knit from the top down with snowy speckles throughout. The pattern is suitable for beginners with some sweater knitting experience, and would be a perfect introduction too two-stranded knitting. Anyone who loves Lamb’s Pride will enjoy knitting this frosty addition to their winter wardrobe!

The Rose Frost Sweater seen in grey with white speckles and pink and maroon colorwork details

Colors and Kits

Sophia has graciously included pattern charts for 5 different color palettes to match the Lamb’s Pride kits we made for the knit along.

5 sketches showing various color options for the Rose Frost Sweater

 

Sophia has also supplied approximate yardages so that our mohair sensitive knitters can substitute Lanaloft if they want. Here are the approximate yardages:

MC: (645, 725, 800) (870, 935, 1000) yds

CC1: (185, 210, 230) (250, 270, 285) yds

CC2: (55, 60, 65) (70, 75, 80) yds

CC3: (30, 35, 35) (40, 40, 45) yds

Knitters can use the code “RoseFrost” to take 10% off the kits and orders of Lamb’s Pride and Lanaloft to build their own color kits.

The code is good until the knit along launches on January 7!

Pattern Details & Sizing

detail view of the Rose Frost Sweater
General Info
  • YarnBrown Sheep Lamb’s Pride, 113g/190 yds per skein. MC: (4, 4, 5) (5, 5, 6); CC1: (1, 2, 2) (2, 2 , 2); CC2: (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1); CC3: (1, 1, 1) (1, 1, 1)
  • Sizes: (36, 40, 44) (48, 52, 56) inches to fit actual bust circumference of (33, 37, 41) (45, 49, 53) inches
  • Needles: US size 7 circular and DPNs (or needle size needed to obtain gauge)
  • Gauge4.5 sts and 5 rows per inch (stockinette)

Note on selecting your size: The sweater is recommended to be worn with about 3 inches positive ease.

Details About the Knit Along

Rose Frost Sweater seen from back

The Rose Frost Sweater Knit Along will start on January 7, 2025. Knitters must sign up for the knit along to receive the free pattern. The full Rose Frost Sweater pattern will release in an email to all registered knitters on January 7.

Knitters must join the Brown Sheep Company Crafters group on Facebook and post a photo of their finished sweater to the group with the hashtag #RoseFrostKAL to be eligible for the knit along prizes. Participants are encouraged to post photos of their finished sweater with #RoseFrostKAL on Instagram and Facebook for additional entries.

Use #RoseFrostKAL when posting to social media so we don’t miss your posts! 

The knit along will end on March 3, when we will choose two knitters who used Lamb’s Pride or Lanaloft in their Rose Frost Sweaters to win $50 gift certificates to BrownSheep.com!

Sign up for the Rose Frost Sweater Knit Along now to receive the pattern when it releases on January 7! And let us know: which kit are you thinking of knitting? Are you choosing your own colors?