Cat Stricklin
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Gradual Brioche Shawl walks you through the steps of knitting brioche. It starts simply with the mechanics of sliding stitches on the needles and gradually adds skills/techniques until you are increasing and decreasing confidently with brioche knitting. The shawl is a shallow crescent shape, allowing it to drape comfortably over the shoulde...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Uranium Shawl is a garter and lace asymmetrical triangle shawl inspired by wavy uranium glass, designed to be knit with any weight yarn. Sock weight makes for a drapey and lightweight piece, where DK makes something a little cozier. Experimenting with sport and worsted could be tons of fun too! Pick your yarn, find some needles you’re comfo...
Knitting: Scarf
The Cesium Scarf is a knit-purl textured scarf shaped with simple increases and decreases, intended to be a beginner friendly knit and an easily-styled accessory.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
They Shawl Did It is a large, narrow, symmetrical, triangular shawl that is meant to use up to 24 mini skeins. It is worked side to side, meaning that your rows never get too long. The stitch pattern is easily memorizable and very rhythmic, resulting in a pattern that you just can’t put down. Designed for the 2023 Cesium Yarn Murder Mystery Hal...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
An old drafty house is the perfect setting for a murder mystery, really adding to the ambiance. But don’t worry, this hat isn’t really drafty, the play of eyelets in the ribbing allow drafts of the colorful lining to peek through to the front side of this slouchy beanie. The Frightfully Drafty Hat is suited for an intermediate knitter, but a be...
Crochet: Cowl
The Start Again Cowl is a beginner Tunisian crochet project that comes in two shapes, a standard tube shape and a V shape. For the standard shape, you will need 100g of worsted weight yarn. For the V-shaped cowl, you will need 200g of worsted weight yarn. The pattern can also be continued in length and left unseamed to create a scarf.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks are inspired by the lovely designs on vintage Pyrex. They will serve as a canvas for you to mix and match a variety of motifs to build your own Pyrex-inspired socks. Feel free to substitute in your favorite heel and toe, and add the colorwork to any part of the sock you want. Repeat the charts all the way around, add multiple charts...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks are inspired by Margaret’s sweater in Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret, the film Starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Abby Ryder Fortson. Using stranded colorwork, the motif from the sweater’s neckline is recreated around the ankle of the sock, and the transition from the yoke in the sweater to the body is used in the trans...
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
The Replenishment Shawl was designed for the 2023 Valentine’s Day Shop Hop with the Knittin Coop, Wool Workshop, and Art and Fiber. This shawl is worked in 3 colors starting with just a few stitches and increasing each row.
Crochet: Cowl
Bring some texture and magic to your garment collection with this cowl! Designed especially to go with highly variegated colorways to give texture without competing with lots of colorful goodness. The result is sure to have you spellbound!
Knitting: Cowl
The Gillian Cowl is a textured knit cowl designed in tandem with the crochet Sally Cowl. Inspired by the sisters in Alice Hoffman’s classic Practical Magic novels, these two cowls pair perfectly together despite the differences in their craft.
Crochet: Cowl
The Sally Cowl is a textured crochet cowl designed in tandem with the knit Gillian Cowl. Inspired by the sisters in Alice Hoffman’s classic Practical Magic novels, these two cowls pair perfectly together despite the differences in their craft.
Crochet: Beanie, Toque
The BEANie Crochet Hat pattern is cozy and warm, just like its namesake, Bean the pet rat! The BEANie hat pattern includes newborn, toddler, child, adult small, adult medium, and adult large sizes. The BEANie hat calls for a 6mm hook and is suitable for beginner to intermediate crocheters.