The Rios Rocks Volume One Collection was inspired while watching the opening ceremony of the recent Rio Olympic Games. The idea lead to creating a collection of six hats using the colours from the olympic rings, with the 6th hat design in stranded colourwork using all the colours together.

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A sideways asymmetric shawl that uses simple garter and coloured stripes to form the pattern. Makes a great project for adventurous beginners.

A sideways asymmetric shawl that grows from tip to edge with short row shaping. A great project for working with a solid and contrasting speckle skein.

When you think about the word bloom you automatically think about flowers right? …and yes this hat does show flowers bloom-ing from the brim to the crown. BUT its much more about us as individuals. We all need to bloom!

Lineation is the process of drawing or making lines. This crescent shawl has symmetrical lines of garter ridges running through the main section, followed by stripes and then a solid block of colour at its edge.

Galdur means magic in Icelandic and an upward pointing triangle is associated with magic. The triangle is one of the chief esoteric symbols ancient sages used to explain how to manifest things in your life and represents the power of the number three - mind, body and spirit. Wear this hat to empower your soul with some magic.

The Lotus flower has long been associated as a symbol of purity and beauty by Egyptians scholars, Buddhists and Hindus. The flower has also been widely considered as a symbol of rebirth.

This is a traditional shetland hap shawl with leaf stitch pattern, simple garter border and picot cast off edge.

Nebula’s are a cloud of gas and dust in outer space visible in the night sky often as patches of luminous colour. The Malabrigo Rios yarn has been dyed in a stunning variety of colours that reflect the purple colour nebula, purple with tones of green, red, pink and blue.

The “Stripes on Stripes” (SOS) Shawl has been designed with mini skeins or leftover stash yarn in mind.

Dálki means column in Icelandic and this beanie hat has columns of faux cables, created from simple twisted stitches.

The colour of the yarn used for the pattern sample was named ‘Blossom’ and the particular shade of pink reminded the designer of the cherry blossom trees.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

This hat is part of the “Rios Rocks Volume One” collection. The collection is 6 hat designs created with Malabrigo Rios yarn using the colours from the Olympic Rings logo. All the patterns use only one skein or less, and the instructions are simple enough for a beginner knitter too.

No-one can define the river. The only one that can define the other is itself. Life is the river. (Wake Up World).

Mina Loves knitting and this hat has been designed to capture this using a Celtic heart motif on a simple reverse stocking stitch pattern.

Tonn means wave in Irish and this fair isle hat has a wave & sail motif with a six-pointed star crown.

Snúru is Icelandic for cable and this hat design has twisted cable stitches that flow into a star-shaped crown. Did you know that the first settlers on Iceland navigated there using only the sun and stars.

Grá means love in Irish and these mitts have been named after my dear friend Gràinne who loves knitting just as much as I do!

The inspiration for this scarf design comes from the song “Diamonds are a girls best friend” which was famously sung by Marilyn Monroe in the classic 1953 film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. This scarf has a diamond eyelet stitch pattern panel that means you to can drape yourself in diamonds just like the lady he...

This is a reversible premie hat and can be knitted plain without the design if desired.