Ouray Knits is a knitting book inspired by the beautiful mountain town, Ouray, Colorado. Travel through the town with the patterns in Ouray Knits: a shawl, a pair of socks and mittens, hats, and headbands.

The Little Nordic Hat is a fun knit that only uses two skeins of yarn!

Double Figure 8 Handwarmers have a base of double seed stitch with a cabled pattern on the back of the hand. They are a cozy addition to fall wardrobes.

The Knit by Nell Hat is a great colorwork hat for any knitter that loves the mountains. It uses fingering weight yarn so that the detailed colorwork can fit on a hat.

SIZES

The Switzerland of America Hat is a stranded colorwork hat designed to match the Switzerland of America Mittens included in the book Ouray Knits.

The Braided River Scarf is a cabled scarf that is worked flat.

The Tile Socks are a fun, beautiful, and cozy sock pattern. They are knit using a technique called mosaic knitting. Mosaic knitting produces a colorwork effect while working with only one color at a time and slipping the contrasting color.

The Star Baby Blanket is knit using mosaic knitting. Mosaic knitting produces a colorwork effect while working with only one color a time and slipping stitches in the contrasting color, following a chart.

The Icicle Hat was designed to practice stranded color knitting. The Icicles start narrow to practice short floats, and the floats get longer as the pattern progresses. Beyond technique practice, this beautiful hat is a great winter accessory.

The Smoke Mittens feature stranded colorwork where the yarn is stranded on the right side and wrong side of the mitten.

The Tuning Fork Hat is a great project to practice stranded knitting.

The cottongrass hat features corrugated ribbing and a combination of multi-row slipped stitches to form cottongrass puffs. The pattern includes written instructions and diagrams for the multi-row slipped stitches.

The Tuning Fork Headband is a great project to practice stranded knitting and to put mini skeins or sock yarn scraps to use.

The Bobbles Holiday Stocking is knit top-down, and the heel is worked with German short rows. It is knit as one piece so there a very few ends to weave in!

The Heritage Scarf was designed for the Heritage Churro yarn, a collaboration between Bad Lux Designs, Huck and Rae Fiber Studio, Spindrift Yarn and Fiber, and the conifer collective. The pattern draws inspiration from the region from which the wool was sourced, Southwest CO.

The Rail Line Shawl was designed using 25 indie-dyed mini skeins from the Colorful Colorado ADVENTure Box. Lay down track with any combination of mini skeins of fingering weight yarn.