1 Main Color yarn plus 3 Contrasting Color yarns, mainly worsted weight but with one bulky highly textured yarn, and one yarn composed of a strand of sport weight yarn worked with a strand of fine kid mohair (these together resulted in a worsted weight—what O what might you have in your stash that you could do this with too? With my stash the p...

Another knit your stash project. Or if you’re at a Fiber Festival, oh my, start with the colors you love to wear, go around and pick up oddball hanks of yarn, pick up texture, pick up a little bulky yarn…pick up as much as you can and go home and knit it all up, add blingy buttons and beads and buckles.

Another Visit Your Stash Hat — I tell you how to make most stash yarns work in the pattern - mainly how to make finer yarns into worsted weights yarns and how to make heavier yarns fit into the mix. Knit the band sideways, pick up and knit the crown. You’ll make a simple bauble, a useful fringe, you’ll cross a cable. The pattern includes a stit...

Flames is knitted in five dramatic, flame-y colors— I used handspun, mainly wool with some angora, a little metallics, in slightly varying worsted weights of 650 to 750 yards per pound. Any wools or wool blends with character will work.

Buckles & Beads can be knitted entirely from 5 pages of written instruction; or from knitter’s graphs of the bodice, of the sleeves, of the skirt individually displayed for each size with notes saying what to do where; or from an At-a-Glance sheet which is a cross between written instructions and graphs.