Knitting never disappears, but some shapes come back stronger than others. This is what I see most of ahead of autumn and winter 2026, and what you can knit yourself if you want to join in. None of the patterns below were made to follow a trend. Some of them were just a little early.
1. The neck goes higher
The roll neck is back, and on the runways it has grown. The neck reaches up to the jaw and becomes the whole point of the garment, with no pattern and no colour competing.
Sky High – The Sweater is built around exactly that: blue mohair, a puff sleeve and a neck you can fold or leave standing. If you would rather have the neck over the shoulders, see I Want Something Just Like This – The High Neck.
2. The neck on its own
The knitted neck, without a sweater underneath, is the season's new shape alongside the hat and the scarf. It goes over your coat and comes off when you come inside.
Three to choose from:
- Bloom – My Summer – The Neck: tall ribbing folded double, with two flat pieces that fall at the front and back
- My Vintage Neck – The Neck: soft alpaca, the simplest of the three
- A Sky Full of Stars – The Neck: with gold thread, for the evenings
3. Holes in the knitting
Lace and lace patterns turn up in everything from skirts to sweaters this year. In knitting that means light through the garment and a sweater that breathes under an outer jacket.
The lace pattern sits where the eye falls: across the chest in Summersky – The Sweater, in the yoke of Le Lilac – The Sweater, and all the way up in Pink Sky – The Sweater.
4. Red
Red is the colour that stands out this winter, both as the whole garment and as one detail under the neutrals. I have knitted a whole series in it.
Red Mini – The Skirt and Red Maxi – The Skirt have velvet yarn in the waistband and mohair the rest of the way. If you want to start smaller, Red – The Beanie is a short project. True Red Bloom – Button Edition gives you red in five shades on the same sweater.
5. The chunky jacket
The chunky knitted jacket has been missed, and now it is back. Long, wide, and heavy enough to wear as outerwear in autumn.
A Message – The Long Jacket is knitted in a wide rib that runs vertically all the way up, with a border of popcorns. The same jacket comes in natural white with gold thread: A Message Snow – The Long Jacket.
6. More is more
Alongside the quiet and the single-coloured runs the opposite: pattern on pattern, many colours, garments you can see from a long way off.
This is where I am happiest. Bohemian Rhapsody – The Sweater has yellow, apricot and pink colour blocks that blend into one another. Bohemian Flowers – The Mosaic Sweater is mosaic knitting, where the colours change without you knitting with two strands at once.
7. V-necks and tops
The v-neck has stood in the shadow of the round neck for several years. Now it is coming back, together with knitted tops that can be worn on their own in autumn and under a jacket in winter.
Pink & Lilac – The Sweater has a v-neck, stripes and a puff sleeve. Love – The Top is a halterneck with a border of hearts above the hip.
8. What you have knitted yourself
The biggest trend is not a garment. More and more people, and younger and younger, are getting out needles and yarn because they want clothes that last and that nobody else has.
Leftover yarn fits right in here. My Bohemian Me – The Vest gets more beautiful the more different balls you have lying around, and it has a v-neck too.
Knit what makes you look twice in the mirror. It lasts longer than a season.