Drops’ Latest

In case you haven’t heard, Drops has posted their upcoming fall/winter designs so you can vote for your favorites. They’ve got some lovely pieces and a very wide variety. I was particularly taken with some of the cabling. You can vote for up to ten of the 177 (!) designs, so it takes a fair bit of clicking and thinking and list-making and list-shortening—just what a gal needs after four days of writing placement tests.

My faves? Here they be. (I’m just including the thumbnails; you can see bigger versions of the pics at their web site.)

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I love the texture on this one, though if I were to knit it I’d shorten the body a bit so the waist didn’t ride as low as it does in the photo.

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The length and fullness of this would require a good bit of knitting, but it would be a beautiful piece to wear to work. I’m particularly fond of the stand-up collar.

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V-neck, cables, moss stitch—’nuff said.

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Ok, ok, so this looks like half a dozen other patterns in my queue—that’s why I chose it.

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Check out the cables on this beauty. And a hood—bonus!

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More cables! Another hood!

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I could figure this pattern out on my own, but it would be easier to follow theirs, and sometimes one needs easy. Doesn’t it look cozy?

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I find this capelet variation irresistible.

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This beret has a particularly nice shape, and I find the mix of blues with black-and-white positively uplifting.

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Isn’t the shaping on this one great? I want to knit it up, just so I can check it out for myself.

So those are my choices. I’ll be waiting for them to appear on-line one-by-one over the next few months.

Which will you vote for?