Randle is an amalgamation of two words - “Ravelry Handle”. This sock was knitted purely for my own pleasure, as the purplesocklady. The sample sock was knit in my favourite colour, and one of my favourite workhorse sock yarns.

’Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair’. I always thought Rapunzel was a bit of a wimp, personally. But I envied her hair. That long, gorgeous, golden hair. The braid pattern featured in this sock makes me think of Rapunzel’s braid, tossed out the window, waiting for someone to rescue her.

These socks are named for the Eucalyptus trees that surrounded my grandpa’s house when I was a kid. No matter how cold it got during winter, I would look out the window and see the leaves hanging from the trees in the bushland around the house. The wood also made excellent smelling firewood, which made sitting next to the fire knitting with my ...

‘Take a Peek’ was inspired by a desire for lacy socks that would stand up to yarn with a strong variegated colour scheme.

When my sister announced that she is pregnant with her first child (and my first nephew - so excited!), I decided that her annual sweater would this year be a cardigan, to allow for her growing belly.

Symphony was inspired by my love of music. To me, the nupps on the border look like notes on sheet music, and the body pattern is a cascading series of diamonds that swirl around you and lift you up to that pure place that only music can take you.

Tauri was inspired by the TV show Numb3rs – “TaurI” means an object with many holes in it.

The mojito is my favourite cocktail, and its essence is captured in this scarf – knit in a lime green wool, with the body pattern featuring the mint leaves and the border featuring the cocktail glass.

This scarf was inspired by (and named after) my Mum, and was made for her in order to get her to stop stealing my other scarves without telling me!

The Colo River runs around the base of the Blue Mountains in Australia, flowing to empty into the Pacific ocean. The stitch pattern, as well as the colour of the yarn used for this scarf remind me of the days I spent as a young girl, floating along the river with my family on an old water bed.

In the middle of winter, I moved interstate at very short notice and with very few possessions. Unfortunately for me, I moved south – which in Australia, means moving further towards the cold. It was freezing. I only had a few balls of DK weight yarn and some big needles with me, and I needed something to keep me warm – fast.

This pattern features both a scarf and a shawl size, and is part of a series inspired by the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of England.

Cupid’s Arrow is a scarf/shawl worked in fingering weight yarn. Stitches are cast on provisionally, and then worked

Itchy Lock is an almost seamless kid’s sweater knit in two directions - bottom up for the body, and top-down for the sleeves, with a central cable motif and v-neckline.

This shawl was originally called Blackberry, due to the stitch pattern of the body. However, when my photographer and I went to work, we discovered the black wool absolutely COVERED in grey and white fur – my cat had been using it as his own personal bed when I wasn’t looking. As we picked out the fur using sticky tape, she muttered wryly “Laza...

Innana is the Sumerian goddess of heaven, beauty, passion, fertility and abundance. She is famed for her loveliness

Finished foot circumference: 7.5 (8.25, 9, 9.5, 10.25)“