This Seasons Club is a bumper edition, with 4 patterns coming your way by Irish designer Eimear Earley. Fortunately, there is 300g of yarn in this installment, so plenty to work on all the patterns if you so desire.

These bright twinkly patterns will bring a spark of light to dark winter days. Even the names of the patterns reinforce this:

• Léas is Irish for ‘glimmer’, (pronounced lace / lay-us, depending on dialect) and uses motifs inspired by twinkling fairy lights and flickering candle flames.

• Réaltra (pronounced as rail-trah) is the Irish for galaxy or group of stars.

Three of the patterns are variations on each other, using the same basic chart to create 3 different knitted items. These are the Léas Tea Cosy, Coffee Cosy, and Hat.

Now not everyone will want both a tea and coffee cosy (most of us fall into one of the two camps) but both are a fantastic way of practicing steeks. The knitted items are fairly small, making it a very low stakes (no pun intended!) way of cutting into your knitting. For the tea cosy, you’ll have bridge stitches added for both the spout and handle opening and the coffee cosy has a bridge added for the entire length to cut the work.

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Why we steek in knitting.

If you’ve never cut your knitting before, you might wonder why you need to use steeks.

The main reason is to simplify your colourwork knitting. Colourwork is much simpler to work in the round, but this limits its usability. Steeks are a way of reinforcing and cutting your knitting, which allows you to knit in the round but still make a flat piece of work. It can be scary but trust me, it’s actually a lot of fun!!

If you are not a tea or coffee drinker, then the Léas hat is the pattern for you. It uses the same colourwork chart but there is no steeking. Just work in the round, finish the crown and add a super cute pom pom.

Winter Seasons pattern details

Léas Tea Cosy

SIZE
To Fit Tea Pot up to 1L volume, 5” / 13 cm diameter, 6.25” / 16 cm tall.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Circumference below steek: 21.25” / 54 cm
Height: 7.5” / 19 cm, with curled brim

Léas Coffee Cosy

SIZE
To fit Coffee Press up to 1L volume, 4” / 10 cm diameter, 5.25” / 13.5 cm tall from spout to base

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Circumference when buttoned: 12” / 30 cm
Height: 5.25” / 13.5 cm

YARN
De Rerum Natura “Gilliatt” (100% Merino Wool; 273 yds / 250 m per 3.52 oz / 100 g); colours: Yarn A: 1 skein; Yarn B: 1 Skein; Yarn C: 1 Skein.

Subtle: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Goeland, Yarn C: Bouleau
Seasonal: Yarn A: Aubepine, Yarn B: Lagon, Yarn C: Ciel
Brights: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Confiture de Rose, Yarn C: Dore

Tea Cosy Approximate Yardage: Yarn A: 98 yds / 90 m, Yarn B: 58 yds / 53 m, Yarn C: 3 yds / 3 m

Coffee Cosy Approximate Yardage: Yarn: A 49 yds / 45 m, Yarn B: 24 yds / 22 m, Yarn C: 3 yds / 3m

Léas Hat

SIZES

Small (Medium, Large)

To Fit Head Circumference: 19.5 (21.5, 23.5)” / 50 (55, 60) cm
4 – 5” / 10 – 12 cm negative ease around brim recommended due to stretch of rib

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Hat Circumference: 19.5 (21.5, 23.5)” / 50 (55, 60) cm
Brim Circumference: 15 (17, 19)” / 39 (43.5, 48) cm
Length: 7.5 (8.5, 9.5)” / 18.5 (21.5, 24.5) cm

YARN
De Rerum Natura “Gilliatt” (100% Merino Wool; 273 yds / 250 m per 3.52 oz / 100 g); colours: Yarn A: 1 skein; Yarn B: 1 skein; Yarn C: 1 skein.

Subtle: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Goeland, Yarn C: Bouleau
Seasonal: Yarn A: Aubepine, Yarn B: Lagon, Yarn C: Ciel
Brights: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Confiture de Rose, Yarn C: Dore

Approximate Yardage:
Yarn A: 45 (50, 57) yds / 41.5 (46, 52) m, Yarn B: 89 (109, 134.5) yds / 81.5 (100, 123) m, Yarn C: 5 (5.5, 6) yds / 4.5 (5, 5.5) m

Réaltra Mitts

The Réaltra Mitts are fast, easy mitts that allow you to use a simple slip stitch texture pattern to create a lovely interplay between the colours. The combination of lifted stitches and yarn overs creates the star like stitch pattern, but don’t worry, these will fly off your needles in just a few hours.

You can see two sizing options given in the photos, they are shown in brights with the medium size and a little positive ease and in small (subtle) with a tiny amount of negative ease. Both work well, just pick your preference!

Pattern Details

SIZES
Small (Medium, Large)

To Fit Hand Circumference Up To: 6.75 (7.5, 8.25)” / 17 (19, 21) cm
0 – 0.5” / 0 – 1.5 cm ease is recommended

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Hand Circumference: 7.25 (8, 8.5)” / 18 (20.5, 21.5) cm
Length: 7.75 (8.25, 8.5)” / 20 (21, 22) cm
Medium size (Brights) is modelled with 0.5” / 1.5 cm positive ease. Small size (Subtle) is modelled with 0.25” / 0.5 cm negative ease.

YARN
De Rerum Natura “Gilliatt” (100% Merino Wool; 273 yds / 250 m per 3.52 oz / 100 g); colours: Yarn A: 1 skein; Yarn B: 1 Skein; Yarn C: 1 Skein.

Subtle: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Goeland, Yarn C: Bouleau
Seasonal: Yarn A: Aubepine, Yarn B: Lagon, Yarn C: Ciel
Brights: Yarn A: Nuit, Yarn B: Confiture de Rose, Yarn C: Dore

Approximate Yardage:
Yarn A: 16 (19, 21) yds / 15 (17, 19) m, Yarn B: 14 (15, 17) yds / 13 (14, 16) m, Yarn C: 94 (107, 120) yds / 86 (98, 110) m

Join the club!

If you’re wondering how to join the club, our full club is closed BUT our digital club is open for a limited time!

Just pop over here to purchase the digital club and access patterns, workshops, and a seasonal recipe, plus our private online knitting community and launch party!

Now all that’s left is to ask which pattern is your favourite?