Cascades a collection by Whitney Hayward with Quince & Co
TABL E of CO NT ENTS INTRODUCTION 4-5
HOLDEN
WRAP
6-11
OLYMPIA
CARDI
12-15
RAINIER
PULLOVER
16-19
EUGENE
PULLOVER
20-23
WITHROW
HAT
24-27
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DESIGNER 29
THE
COLLECTION 30-31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 32-33
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Last year I took a photograph. I was digging around in our photo skein bins, where we keep a skein of each color in each Quince yarn at the ready for photography, color comparison, and inspiration. Smashed against the side of the translucent bin was a grouping of Lark: Slate, Fjord, Delft, and Bird’s Egg, all together as if intentionally placed, light to dark. It was striking how different Slate—which I had considered a member of the gray family—looked beside a saturated blue like Delft. Curious what would happen if I placed other neutral, cool shades next to those saturated blues, I snagged every blue-ish skein of yarn in that bin. The result was the photograph you see here: a slew of Quince wool blues encircling a Twig & Horn project bag. Our founder, Pam Allen, found the photograph and admitted a similar fascination with the effect of this skein grouping. She asked if I would design a collection around this, and—loath to ever say no to Pam—this blue collection was born. Cascades features some of my favorite Quince colors, and I hope these designs leave you just as curious to play with color theory and knitting.
Whitney
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HOLDEN WRAP
HOLDEN yarn: osprey color: glacier 10
OLYMPIA CARDI
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OLYMPIA yarn: tern color: mist 15
argus by leila raabe
RAINIER PULLOVER
whimbrel
by beatrice perron dahlen
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RAINIER yarn: puffin color: slate
EUGENE PULLOVER
EUGENE yarn: lark colors: glacier, bird’s egg, and slate 22
WITHROW HAT
WITHROW
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yarn: chickadee colors: audouin sabine delft
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WHITNEY HAYWARD Whitney Hayward is a knitwear designer based in Portland who moved to Maine and discovered she was allergic to lobster. Wool-crazy and never not knitting, she gets the opportunity to explore both of those obsessions as the creative director at Twig & Horn and Stone Wool. When she isn’t furiously knitting, you can find her excessively adoring her dog Sam and happily playing the piano poorly. instagram: @whit_knits
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THE COLLECTION
holden
eugene
cable and braid wrap
colorblock top-down raglan
in Aran weight Osprey
in worsted weight Lark
shown in color Glacier
shown in colors Glacier, Bird’s Egg, and Slate
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olympia
rainier
withrow
a-line drop-shoulder cardi
textured rib drop-shoulder turtleneck
colorwork hat
in fingering weight Tern
in chunky weight Puffin
in sport weight Chickadee
shown in color Mist
shown in color Slate
shown in colors Audouin, Sabine, and Delft
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - JERUSHA, DAWN, LEILA, HALLIE OUR WONDERFUL PRODUCTION TEAM
- MARY FERRARA OUR EXTREMELY GOOD-NATURED MODEL AND - WHITNEY HAYWARD DESIGNER, PHOTOGRAPHER, AND CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND THIS COLLECTION
PHOTOGRAPHED AT WILLARD BEACH AND FORT PREBLE IN SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE
WITH GRATITUDE FOR HAVING ON HAND ETHAN MACDONALD’S UMBRELLA