What You've Made This Year – 2025

We're almost at the end of 2025, and what a year it's been! We're all looking forward to a little winter break, eating lots and lots of good food, knitting away, maybe in front of a fireplace or cosied up under a warm, woolly blanket. And then we'll be ready for January and a 2026 filled with lots of woolly goodness!

For now, though, it's time to look back and reminisce – and what better way to do that than to scroll through the beautiful projects you all made with our yarn and fibre tops? Looking back through our tags and saves on Instagram was such a wonderful exercise – there are endless possibilities what you can do with yarn and needles, with a loom, with a wheel or spindle, and seeing all the beautiful things you've made put the biggest smile on our faces.

I wish we could share every single project, I truly do! Alas, there aren't enough hours in the day to put together a blog post that long, so I've had to pick from the beautiful selection. Grab a cuppa and settle in!

Cosy Toes

Antonia knit these gorgeous cabled socks – the pattern is "Man of Aran" by Kate Atherley – in our Exmoor Sock, colourway Drumble.

I love seeing Antonia's projects pop up on our feed – not only does she knit beautiful things and wears lots of cool socks, she also often does so while volunteering at a crisis line ("Telefonseelsorge").

Such an important and impressive thing to do!

Tea, who resides all the way over in Australia, test knit these beautiful Whispering Stars Socks by Melody Hoffmann (pattern has not been released yet).

She used our Devon Naturals DK which is a fabulous choice if you're looking for a non-superwash, plastic-free sock yarn! It also creates the cosiest, warmest fabric – perfect to keep your toes warm. The idea to swap the main and contrasting colour for the second sock is genius – it's fun, and also helps with making the most out of a skein of yarn! 

Warm Weather Knits

Natasha has one of the most impressive wardrobes of knits that I've ever seen, and every time I came across her Darjeeling Top (pattern by Morgane Mathieu), I fell in love with it even more.

This is knit out of one skein (yes, really!) of our Yarnadelic Sport in the colourway Dark Star, which was a special colourway a couple years back and will be one of the new Yarnadelic colours we're releasing in January!

I think I featured Kayla's projects more than any other knitters over on Instagram this year! No wonder as she's always making beautiful things and knits lots in our yarn (thank you!!).

Colourwork Vest Love

Hold on to your seats, lovelies, because these two projects are jaw droppingly fabulous! When I first saw Graham's fantastic colourwork vest over on Instagram, I was absolutely smitten. The pattern is fantastic, and the colours he's chosen are so good – those pops of turquoise mixed with those shades of purple!

Lo and behold, he's also developed the pattern himself – it's inspired by a rug he bought! The Knit by Numbers 4ply he used is the perfect palette to play with for colourwork.

knitwhit's palpable happiness, the bright yellow door and the vest!! Can we talk about the vest?! It's a variation on Di Gilpin's Love Hearts Fair Isle Vest, and I cannot stop gushing about it.

It's not only about knitting!

I love it when the occasional weaving or spinning project pops up on our feed! There are countless ways to be creative with yarn and fibre, and these projects are super inspiring to try some of them.

Sarah is a wonderful weaver who creates gorgeous nature-inspired pieces! This is "Transitions" and I adore how she used the different tones of the Seafarer colour palette in it. To me, it shows the transition of light summer days through the first shades of autumn until nature is starting to fall asleep for the winter.

Julie's spinning impeccable, she also caught my eye during Tour de Fleece with her fabulous choices of where to spin! On a houseboat in the company of swans, outside under a big, beautiful tree – so much inspiration to take from this and I will definitely endeavour to take my wheel outdoors when it gets warm enough for that again!

The fibre she's spun here is Devonia in Nightshade, a gorgeous blue with red and purple undertones.

Fabulous Use of Colour

One of the things I love about our yarns is how many different colours we're able to provide. There's something in our ranges for everyone I hope, and every once in a while I see a project on Instagram that just stops me in my tracks as they've used a colour to fabulous effects or chosen a really unique shade!

Verity knit a Lauder Jumper (pattern by Rebecca Clow) for her sister (lucky her!!) in the most glorious colour of Devonia – Amber Blaze. This project is the perfect pattern-yarn-colour combination if you ask me: The warm orange rust tone of Devonia makes the cables sing!

It's always fun to see our yarn pop up in the Westknits Mystery KAL projects – and this year, there was one project that I couldn't wait to see week after week!

Kerstin used our Knit by Numbers Copper Gradient which resulted in the most fabulous of shawls – such a fantastic use of those colours!

I love how they make all the different stitch patterns stand out and still create a cohesive, wearable design.

Labour of Love

Last, but very certainly not least, there are always a few projects that involve a lot of knitting time! Enter Svitlana with her beautiful Two in the Afternoon dress (pattern by Yamagara Knits). It's not only a true labour of love to knit a full dress (in Tweed stitch nonetheless!), the result is also jaw dropping: Such a great fit, and it's so, so wearable!

Svitlana chose to knit her dress in our Devonia DK – a really good choice not only for the colour options, but also for the bounce and elasticity that will help keep the dress in shape.

Thank you all so much for knitting and weaving and spinning with our yarn and fibre this past year! We can't wait to see what you choose to create next!