New Knittery Joins Puget Sound LYS Tour's 20th Anniversary Crochet Blanket Collection

A 10-inch Tunisian-style textured block, worked in DK weight and sized to sit alongside 24 others in a commemorative collection: that is The New Knittery's entry in the 2026 Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour's 20th anniversary blanket bundle. Designer Johann Stoessel's square went live on Ravelry this month as part of a rolling reveal that is building toward a complete 25-shop digital pattern collection.

The square is spec'd for HiKoo® Sueño DK on a 5.0 mm hook, landing at the 10" x 10" target that gives the finished blanket its consistency across all participating shops. The Tour's reveal format publishes each shop's pattern alongside that shop's dedicated spotlight, so following the collection means tracking both the stitches and the independent businesses behind them.

The full bundle spans both knit and crochet squares, and the Ravelry listings note that finishing instructions and an all-in-one eBook compiling all 25 patterns will be released once the reveal cycle completes. That structure turns this into a serialized project: makers who start now will have a cohesive blanket waiting at the finish line, not a pile of unrelated motifs.

The physical shop tour runs May 13 through 17, 2026, and the digital bundle was timed to run well ahead of those dates. Starting squares now means arriving at shops mid-project, with firsthand context for the patterns, the yarn choices, and the shops behind them. For makers outside the Puget Sound region, the Ravelry distribution makes the full anniversary project accessible without a Northwest road trip.

For The New Knittery, a slot in a 25-square anniversary collection carries different weight than a standalone pattern drop. The Tour's 20-year run gives the bundle historical footing, and Ravelry placement puts Stoessel's work in front of a community that logs projects, follows designers, and keeps finished objects in a permanent digital record. That kind of visibility tends to stick.