Quince & Co Cascades

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

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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