New Knitting Books for Winter 2026
- Susanna
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Happy 2026! Let's kick off the new year with a peek into new knitting books to be released in the next couple of month. This season's offerings bring you new designs from knit celebrities, patterns from far flung places of the world, and ways to spice up your knits with decorative techniques.
Knit-lebrities
Some knitters gain a quasi celebrity status. Here are new books by two such current big-name designers: sock guru Summer Lee and knitfluencer Veronika Lindberg a.k.a. Kutovakika.
Summer Lee's first sock book, The Sock Project, was featured in the Winter 2024 round-up of new knitting books. Now she's back with her second one, The Sock Obsession.
From Summer Lee, sock knitting guru and author of reader favorite The Sock Project, a fun new collection of patterns for making socks in every shape and size, all in her signature palette of neon bright colors This colorful volume presents a variety of sock styles, from boot socks and ankle socks to loafer and cuffed styles, and a universe of techniques. Try your hand at cables, colorwork, ribs, and textured knitting with 25 easy-to-follow patterns, then customize your designs to make dozens of different looks!
The book is divided into six chapters: an intro and five chapters with five sock patterns each. The patterns are categorized into themes such as traditional, modern art, everyday wear, whimsical, and signature.
All of the sock patterns are very colorful, and employ techniques such as stripes, lace, or texture... sometimes all in the same pattern! Many of them also involve stranded colorwork in some form — with three or even four colors — such as the lobster, bumble bee, or sheep socks from the whimsical patterns category. Managing long floats is a skill that's going to be in high demand with this book.
The Sock Obsession: Supercool Socks to Knit and Show Off comes out on January 20, 2026.
Veronika Lindberg, best known by her online moniker Kutovakika, rose to fame with her knitted wedding dress. Since then she's published loads of knitting patterns. Knits to Wear is her second pattern book.
Create your own treasured pieces with this beautiful book by one of today's most beloved knitwear designers, Veronika Lindberg (also known as Kutova Kika). Knits to Wear offers 17 patterns destined to become cherished favorites. From simple, timeless designs to modern pieces with a romantic twist, decorative textures and traditional colorwork, Veronika guides you in crafting stylish, everyday knits for year-round wear. She also shares her expert tips and tricks to help you save time and knit like a pro, along with styling suggestions to inspire you to create pieces that reflect your unique personal style.
The book contains 17 different knitting patterns. As the title suggests, all of them are wearable items — mostly garments such as sweaters, cardigans, tops, or vests — but there are also 3 hats and 1 lace collar.
Although most of the garment patterns are graded for sizes XS through 5XL, many of them are intended to be worn with such large amounts of ease that the patterns fall short of current size-inclusivity requirements. And as can only be expected from Laine, there's already errata for the book.
Knits to Wear: Effortless Patterns by Kutova Kika is slated for international release on February 17.
Knits from Around the World
The next three books introduce patterns and designs from different regions of the globe. Up first, Sue Bradley's succinctly named Pattern is a collection of 28 ethnic-inspired patterns and more than 250 stitch pattern charts to be used in your knits.
This is a book for hand knitters who love pattern, colour and inspiration, and have a desire to create their own beautiful designs. The 28 knitting patterns for garments and accessories are inspired by textiles and artefacts from all over the world. The garment shapes are easy to knit, allowing the colour and pattern to take centre stage. Each chapter focuses on the culture and textile heritage of a specific country, and also features a Pattern Library, giving the knitter the opportunity to recreate that chapter's designs using another country's colours, motifs or patterns. With more than 250 full-colour charts across the book, there will be a pattern to inspire everyone.
The book contains 10 chapters that each explore the textiles, heritage, and knitwear of a different region of the world: India, Japan, Tibet, Indonesia, Turkey, Latvia, Ukraine, Morocco, Mexico, and Peru. There's not much information on the 28 included patterns other than they're garments and accessories for women, men, and children alike.
Pattern: Hand Knitting Designs from Around the World hits the shelves on February 17.
The next book explores knitwear found on the islands in the Baltic and North Seas and the Northern Atlantic. Erika Åberg's Island Knitting is a collection of knitting patterns inspired by coastal landscapes.
Embark on a knitting journey through the captivating landscapes of Shetland, the Hebrides, Gotland and Blidö with best-selling author and knitwear designer Erika Åberg (@wynja). This stunning book features 20 timeless patterns inspired by the sea, wind and spirit of each island, perfect for knitters seeking one-of-a-kind garments infused with a touch of coastal magic.
Each of the four islands gets a dedicated chapter and a brief overlook of the island's history, culture, and native sheep breeds — and how that impacts the traditional knitwear found on the island.
Also included in each chapter are five original knitting patterns inspired by the region, 20 in total. The patterns range from adult garments (such as sweaters and cardigans) to shawls and smaller accessories, like socks, mitts, and hats. There's even a pattern for a knitted Shetland coffee cozy! No word on the size inclusivity of the designs or the techniques used but if the cover photo is anything to judge by, many of them involve colorwork.
Originally published in Swedish in 2022 as Stickat från kust to kust, Island Knitting: A Collection of Knitting Patterns Inspired by Coastal Landscapes will be released internationally on January 13.
The third book in this group is a collection of knitwear patterns from Uruguay, published by the yarn company Malabrigo.
Discover 17 stunning knitting patterns that celebrate the joy of wool, from treasured yarn brand Malabrigo. This collection features Malabrigo's most-loved patterns from the last 20 years, along with new designs that that are sure to become fan-favorites. You'll find timeless staple knits with intriguing textures and techniques, including shawls, sweaters, hats, mitts, socks and cardigans. With beautiful photography from Uruguay, you'll be inspired to cast on immediately.
The 17 included patterns are divided into three chapters: socks & accessories, cowls & shawls, and cardigans & sweaters. They all make use of Malabrigo's beautiful — but often hard to match — small-batch hand- and kettle-dyed colorways.
Timeless Knits: Classic Knitting Patterns from the Heart of Uruguay is released on March 17, 2026. If you don't want to wait, the patterns are also sold individually on the Malabrigo website.
Decorated Knits
The next two books strike a trend that's been quite popular for the past couple of years: embellishing knitwear with embroidery or other techniques. Diana Loug's Embroidered Knits focuses on the former.
Add the perfect finishing touch to your handmade or shop-bought knitwear: use simple embroidery techniques to create tactile, contemporary and completely unique results. Following an essential chapter that covers the core embroidery stitches step by step, Diana guides you through over 25 gorgeous designs to embroider onto your knitwear, along with tips on which types of yarn are most suitable, and advice on getting the best results. From graphic shapes like crosses, squares and hearts, to awe-inspiring florals and fruit, there are designs for everyone – use the full-size embroidery diagrams and positioning illustrations, along with the color and stitch guides, to ensure you get the best results.
In addition to sections on choosing yarn and colors and a short embroidery school, the book features 25 embroidery designs demonstrated on 12 garments such as sweaters, jackets, and vests which provide a large, smooth canvas to practice your skills on. Note that there are no knitting patterns in this book, only embroidery motifs.
Originally published in Norwegian in 2023 as Broderi på strikk, the English edition of Embroidered Knits: Over 25 Motifs to Personalize and Embellish Your Own Knitwear will be released on February 17.
Roosimine (also called roositud) is a traditional Estonian colorwork technique that's gained a lot of interest in the past few years, thanks to Aleks Byrd's groundbreaking books Traditions Revisited (2022) and Kindred Knits (2025) that re-introduced it to a wider knitting audience.
Similar to stranded colorwork, roosimine is worked in the round and in stockinette stitch. But unlike stranded colorwork, the patterns are not incorporated by knitting in the usual way but by weaving in the second color as you knit, stranding the contrasting color along the right side of the work.
The final book in this season's bunch focuses on socks patterns using this unique inlay technique. Roosimine Knitted Socks is the first book published in English by the German knitwear designer Sarah Prieur.
Discover the magic of Roosimine, an easy-to-learn Estonian technique that brings the look of embroidery to your knitting! This unique colorwork method creates beautiful, contrasting patterns on a background of simple stockinette.
The book includes comprehensive, illustrated guides to both sock knitting and to using the roosimine technique. In addition, it contains 18 original sock patterns in five sizes, ranging from EU 36/37 (US women's 6) to EU 44/45 (US men's 11½).
Originally published in German in 2024 as Roosimine-Socken stricken, the English translation of Roosimine Knitted Socks: Spice Up Your Sock Knitting With This Easy-to-learn Estonian Colorwork Technique! will be released on March 3.
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