Knitting “Wood Snake” and the Krouse Scarf for Lunar New Year

Celebrate the spirit of Lunar New Year 2025 with our new yarn colourway, Wood Snake. This limited-edition release is perfect for creating beautiful pieces that welcome the new year with hope and joy, created to honour the vibrant traditions of this celebration. The calming greens symbolize growth and abundance, while the cool blues evoke peace and prosperity—all with a delicate splash of purple dancing through the yarn.

As we looked to test working with this year’s hand-dyed hues, Charlotte chose the beautiful drape of Tabetha Hedrick’s knitting pattern, Krouse. The long, graceful shape of the scarf is a beautiful match for the spirit of the Year of the Wood Snake, reflecting the balance between refinement and strength.

WOOD SNAKE COLOURWAY

Whether you’re crafting a cozy sweater, scarf, or colourful accessories, Wood Snake adds a touch of good luck to every stitch. The calming hues of green represent growth and renewal, plus they align with the element of wood. These soft, mossy and forest tones encourage the exploration of new opportunities and personal development. Adding in blue symbolizes spring and brings a positive energy, and the purple aligns with the Snake’s reflective nature.

Lunar New Year 2025 hand dyed yarn colourway Wood Snake by SweetGeorgia Yarns
“Wood Snake” hand-dyed on SweetGeorgia Mohair Silk Sock base

Our SweetGeorgia Mohair Silk Sock yarn was chosen for dyeing this year’s colourway. A soft yet strong yarn designed for sock knitting, this custom blend creates smooth and hardwearing hand-knits. It takes all the best features of merino wool, mohair, and silk and blends them together, with a fine stitch definition that works well in cabled, textured, and lace knitting. Colours also dye brilliantly on this base because of the glossy mohair and silk fibres.

Lunar New Year 2025 hand dyed yarn colourway Wood Snake by SweetGeorgia Yarns
Lunar New Year 2025 hand dyed yarn colourway Wood Snake by SweetGeorgia Yarns

For this year’s celebration, we’ve also brought back a popular colourway from the vault — Double Dragon. Created for last year’s Lunar New Year, this unique colourway captures the essence of the dragon—a powerful and auspicious symbol in Chinese culture. The bright red symbolizes good fortune, joy, and happiness, while the golden yellow represents wealth, prosperity, and success. Read more about this colourway here »

Double Dragon Lunar New Year colourway for 2024 dyed on Mohair Silk Sock
2024’s Lunar New Year colourway, “Double Dragon” rereleased on our Mohair Silk Sock base

KROUSE SCARF BY TABETHA HEDRICK


This chic little accessory design by Tabetha Hedrick breaks the bounds of rectangle scarves. It’s a fabulous accessory for wearing year-round. With eyelet lace throughout the entire piece, simple pattern repeats make for soothing openwork practice. The scarf is worked sideways in one piece, beginning with a few stitches and then growing in width very gradually.

Krouse hand knit scarf in Wood Snake Lunar New Year 2025 colourway
Krouse hand knit scarf in Wood Snake Lunar New Year 2025 colourway

Start your year with a burst of colour and creativity! With this year symbolizing growth, renewal, and wisdom, we send our best wishes for a prosperous year ahead. Whether you knit, crochet, or weave with this colourway, we would love to see what you create with it! Share with us in our SweetGeorgia Discord server, or tag us on social media @sweetgeorgia and #sweetgeorgiayarns! Happy crafting!

Wood Snake Lunar New Year yarn colourway and Krouse knit scarf
Krouse scarf knit in Wood Snake Lunar New Year 2025 colourway
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Krouse Scarf with Wood Snake

Fabulous for wearing year-round, this long and lacey scarf adds a vibrant pop of colour to any outfit with the shape perfectly complementing the year of the Wood Snake.
Craft Knitting
Maker Charlotte Lee
Designer Tabetha Hedrick
Skill Level Beginner

Equipment

Materials

  • 1 skein SweetGeorgia Yarns Mohair Silk Sock in Wood Snake

Instructions

  • With the Krouse pattern download, follow the pattern setup directions with casting on 5 stitches. Then following rows 1-8 to complete the setup.
  • Work the increase section by repeating these rows for the required number of times, checking your stitch count at the end of this section.
  • Work the body pattern directions until your scarf measures approx. 3" / 7.5 cm less than your desired length of finished scarf.
  • Follow the end pattern rows, then binding off using the included Elastic Bind off directions.
  • Block the project as desired, aggressively stretching the lace and exaggerating the points. Weave in ends and enjoy!
    Krouse scarf knit in Wood Snake Lunar New Year 2025 colourway

Notes

Need help with working through any of the knitting stitches in this pattern? We encourage you to come and check out the School of SweetGeorgia’s online knitting courses, helpful for knitters of all different levels. 
Note: The Wood Snake colourway is only available to order until the end of February 28, 2025!

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