By Hand Special Release: In the Cabin

DEEP WINTER WONDERLAND

If Snow Days are your best days, you’ll love cozying up to Special Release No. 2: In the Cabin. Travel through snowy woods, across frozen ponds and discover the secret pleasures of this slow season with our new special issue. 

We find ourselves often dreaming of a cabin getaway mid-winter. Away from the complexities and complications of everyday life, we can find the time to sleep in, snuggle up—to read a book and begin a new project. Relish long weekends with a beautiful new project, or explore the quiet of a world freshly dipped in snow while sledding, skating, or snowshoeing in cozy winter accessories and sweaters. 

Through this Special Release, you’ll discover a variety of perfect projects for fireside crafting. Discover a new love for flannel in the form of a sewn capelet or puff quilt. Try your hand at counted cross stitch with a sweet cabin scene from Pigeon Coop Studios, or cast on a new knitting project from Anne Hanson, Andrea Hungerford or Hannah Thiessen. Photographer Jenn Bakos shares an inside look at how maple syrup is made, and takes us on a journey of projects and recipes for all things campfire: aromatic firestarters, flame-cooked meals and cast iron make major appearances. 

WARM AND COZY KNITTING AND SEWING

Tree Bark Cardigan

Mountain Pine Pullover

Plaid Hooded Blanket Shawl

Puffy Quilt

Snow Drifts Hat 

Champlain Colorwork Pullover

PROJECTS AND RECIPES TO BEAT THE CHILL

Aromatic Wax Firestarters

Open Flame Cast Iron Cooking: Beef Stew

Maple Sugar Candy in the Snow

Winter Cabin Cross Stitch

READING BY THE FIRE

Maple Syrup Season

Snuggle Up: Favorite Winter Blankets

Seasoning a Cast Iron Pan

Flannel: A Fuzzy Bit of History