Topaki Detail.jpgThree vests, one inspiration: Turkey. Vests for a Turkish Bazaar offers three vests that invite color play with simple lace and mixed yarns.

The serape is constructed in three sections with a straight rectangle leading the way in Step 1. Step 2 picks up and knits along one side but is far more free-range and adds playful riffs of short rows and forms the other side of your serape. These two pieces are then joined at the “shoulders” for the neck opening. The final step picks up a lon...

Curvature is my exploration of the curved shape translated into a long, curvy-ended wrap that reminds me of butterfly wings. It features short rows, a small stranded feature above each curve I call the wedge, and holes, lots of holes! Every year I like to add one air-conditioned wrap and here is the 2019 edition.

A SUBSCRIPTION FREE-SPIRITED KNITTING CLUB WITH A CHOICE OF PATTERNS PLUS SIX INSPIRATION-PACKED ISSUES ANNUALLY. CLUB INCLUDES:

Here is an excellent season topper which can be worn multiple ways and designed to evoke the autumn hills. Imagined autumn hills with birch stands waxing brilliant in the sunshine, plus lots of brown for trunks and plenty of golds and rusts for the turning leaves.

Tropical fish are some of the most colourful creatures alive. They float and flit in glorious hues of turquoise, yellow, and blue, often banded in black and neon-bright color. Seen in their natural environment, they are amazing, but no less so when those patterns are captured in a summer wrap.

Two patterns in one:

Short row knitting and skies are a made-in-heaven combination. For a color lover, playing with the hues of sunrises and sunsets is particularly thrilling. Any color works. Skies have no color boundaries and sail into all shades of the spectrum, including all at once, as in a rainbow.

I craved a little short row action, something with a diagonal flow, a dab of feather & fan (just because), and maybe a dual lace edging. Most of all, I didn’t want to think too hard while I knit. T

One of the many wonderfully liberating aspects of short rows is that they can take you in unexpected directions, allowing you to shape, curve, and stream color at will, at any point in your project. Now that I’ve thoroughly embedded short rows into my knitting vocabulary, I just can’t seem to design without them.

EnLeafed is a loose top with half-sleeves composed of six leaves sewn together. The same leaf components form the basis for each of the three designs in the E-book-- EnLeafed, EnWrapped, and the Leaf Fall Scarf.

Celebrate spring with this wide, blooming garden of stitches that begins and ends with a majestic stranded flower with garlands of feather & fan and drop stitches dancing away in between. Though the ends are dense with stitchery, the wrap soon opens up to invite in plenty of air and light, maybe even the occasional butterfly.

This is an original (to you) art wear knit. Every knitter’s will look a little different and is primarily knit with free range short rows and sized to fit as you work.

The My Little Vest Along began as a knitalong in my Jane Thornley Ravelry group. It still exists there as a free step-by-step knitalong in a marked thread with a corresponding ‘Chatter’ thread with participants’s photos and experiences. Steps were given weekly with the final result culminating in a vest tailored to fit individual knitters alone...

If you are a yarn collector chances are you gather other things as well. Maybe buttons? They are the perfect collectable for textile lovers. Being small, featuring a myriad of designs and techniques, widely available, and useful as closures, what could be better (besides yarn)? I began gathering buttons before I knew I was collecting. Buttons f...

We are collectors of interesting and fabulous yarns. Let’s not be shy about it. Let’s be counted among stamp collectors, toy collectors, any collectors, so we don’t have to hang our heads in embarrassment as if we were afflicted with some wild and quirky disease. Stand tall, oh yarn collectors! Your passion are equal in merit to any other and n...

What can be simpler than a shrug for summer? A flow of fabric to cover shoulders and upper arms like a rippling of color against a wayward breeze is my idea of the perfect cover-up. And, what color! All your most beautiful yarns can go out to play in this easy drop-stitch wave-amid-the-purls design and its companion feather & fan version. I...

Let there be spring. Please. And since my heart is there, even if the temperatures and climatic behavior may not always be, this capelet celebrates the first harbingers of the season, the merry little crocus.

Here’s a wrap to knit while reading my novel, Rogue Wave, or just to evoke the free-flow spirit of the ocean, if you’d rather not read a mystery. You may even be able to knit and read at the same time, though I’ve yet to manage that.

The Dusk Light vest features a simple and rhythmic old lace stitch called fir cone which creates rows of leaf-like openings through which color and light may play. The vest’s shape is long and lean, though easy to shorten for any taste, and features seed stitch along the sides and back bodice. The seed stitch sides makes it easy to size without...

A modular wrap that’s as fun as it is easy!

Celebrate the gilded age. This Gustav Klimt-inspired top is perfect for festive occasions in bronze and silver mixed with black. The front is knit on large needles to create a lacy, flowing, drape whereas the back is worked side to side in alternating stripes linked with yarnovers. The piece is easy to size with instructions provided. A chart f...

Rich Earth is a luxurious versatile vest with a wide front scarf extension that slips behind the neck to form an ample shawl or can be worn draped in front or even fastened on one shoulder. It even forms a hood or twists in front for a scarf.

Here’s a light, fun to knit wrap that combines Inner Circles with free-range knitting to evoke the ebullient glee of spring’s first blooms. Use your favorite flower colors and create something festive and wearable. Try working the main wrap in colors most flattering to your skin and eyes and then pull out all the stop for the ‘blooms’.

The Winter Garden shawlette one of three patterns in the INNER CIRCLES E-BOOK which is included in this download. It’s created from half circles pieced together modular-style and like the other two designs in this three-pattern e-book, is deceptively simple. if you can knit, purl and work a yarn over, you can make this piece and the other two.

A wrap, a scarf, a light collared shawlette -- three designs, endless possibilities, all constructed by half circles in this E-Book. All three patterns are included in this download. Though the designs may look complex, they’re deceptively simple. If you can knit, purl and make a yarn over, you can make these designs.

Summer isn’t the time for hard. Everything should be easy, relaxing, and even fun. When it comes to knitting, projects have to be portable, light on the lap, with lots of ventilation to allow the air to pass through. We can’t be getting hot and bothered when it’s roasting outside.

Seaglass is a discovery, a little wave-smoothed found object, a sea gem resembling anything from aquamarine to peridot. Just like sea glass, this little vest is loose and easy, worn open but for a single button.

Ready to explore knitting in a new way? Short rows open up a whole new world of possibilities. By forming multi-directional bands of color by short rows and combining feather & fan, garter and other stitches, this wrap brims with motion and spirit.

I’m always looking for something other than a jacket to wear on those not-quite-balmy days between seasons, something warm but not too heavey, something full of texture and color to lighten the spirit, especially if spring is in the offing. Enter the tabbard, that vest-like garment that can go anywhere. Fastened at the sides by a single button ...

You may want to make more than one of these. The lacy branches between the ridges offer air and light to balance the denser streams so that color and texture may play.

Forest and water create perfect synergy: the flowing surface overlaced by the twining branches of tree and leaf. To those living by water, the combination may evoke gazing at a beach through a tangle of branches or the way in which a forest reflects inside a river pool or lake

This design is part of a 4-design Evocative Guide containing one scarf, two wraps and a top. Search Canopy Top, Vining Blooms and Branches & Dunes Serape for details.

The breeze is exactly that, a breezy little random lace wrap with optional waves of muted color. It ties in the front, can act as a scarf, and requires no gauge or complex lace charts to complete. It arose from my simple need to have something to go with all my green things, light enough for steamy days yet with just enough air-conditioning pro...

This design is part of a three-pattern 26-page guide. See bottoim photos for other designs in collection.

This design is part of a three-pattern booklet. Pictures of the other two designs shown at bootom.

This design is part of a three-pattern, 26-page, full color evocative guide. Other designs included are previewed in the bottom photos.

Everyone needs a treat once in awhile so I thought I’d treat all of you to a little New Year’s gift. How about a scarf, all in a silky flow of stitches knit in the free-range style where no mistakes happen because they’re simply not acknowledged? Ever try random lace? How about undulating wave? Here’s a pattern knit with a central feather&f...

Think of a sinuous river curling deep into the heart of a forest or through a desert canyon, sparkling like a jeweled ribbon of light. How would it feel to wear a river undulating over your shoulders or wrapped about your neck in an earth mother hug? Knit yourself a river and find out.

Dusk to dawn, the hours before the sun rises or after the sun sets, deepen hues to a mysterious richness….peaceful and introspective, a quiet kind of glory.

A ruana by definition is a South America design often constructed as one long rectangle with two pieces extending over the shoulders and down the front on either side of the head. Mine, however, wanted to be more generous, a suitably cozy cloak that could keep me toasty on crisp morns. And so it went. I knit a back with an ornamental free-range...

Part of a three-design Booklet

Part of a three-design Booklet

PART OF A THREE-DESIGN BOOKLET BUT ALSO AVAILABLE AS A SINGLE PATTERN

PART OF A 30-page GUIDE WITH THREE DESIGNS

Leaf Light is an airy, spring-like excursion into the tropical undergrowth. The colors ripple in light and shadow like sunlight filtering through a leafy canopy.

THIS PATTERN IS PART OF A THREE-DESIGN GUIDE

THIS PATTERN IS PART OF A THREE-PATTERN GUIDE

It’s a vest or a scarf or both in two versions – The Pasha’s Investment and the Sultan’s Investment – both fabulous accessories which can be worn like vests, scarves, or even belts. Glam up any festive outfit by wearing one over a blouse or a basic tee. Consider the rear view as either plain or dramatic – with long i-cord dangles or with a soft...

There’s something about a shawled cardigan that brings out the romantic in me: visions of Victorian heroines prowling grassy heaths and windswept moors abound. But here my romantic heroine goes modern with a little bohemian stirred into the mix. In this tale, she knits herself a caped cardigan suitable for casual weekends or for an extra layer ...

For intermediate knitters

Unleash yourself. Paint with yarn. Color with yarn. Let lines guide you rather than box you in. The free-range summer knitting guide offers a guiding design, techniques, and plenty of options to explore knitting as creative self-expression with wraps, shrugs and scarves. The key is to experiment, explore, and play, creating your own piece of we...

Here’s an easy, one-size fits all knit with drop sleeves (not really sleeves at all) and a deep single-button neckline perfect for all body types. Kimono-like, on lean forms, the knitted fabric drapes around the body in elegant waves while streamlining more abundant shapes like my own, pictured. Could there be an easier cover-up for a chill sum...

‘Tis the season for investing only a little time but reaping huge gift-giving results. Enter the festive little ornamental gift bag, small enough to knit quickly, festive enough to look very special and seriously fun to knit. For a daughter, how about an iPod cover?, for a friend, how about an evening clutch?, for a mother, how about an eyeglas...

This cardi is part of a three-pattern guide featuring the Feather&fan stitch. Lavishly illustrated and 54 pages long, the guide offers color blending tips and plenty of other features.

This design is part of a three-pattern guide that features the beloved feather n fan stitch with color blending ideas, texture tips and guidance on how to texturize your knitting using multiple yarns -- perfect for stash-busting. Each pattern is knit side-to-side and is designed to be adapted to any size. I show the same piece being worn on a s...

The water’s warm so let’s knit a beach! If you can dream it, you can knit it. Learn how to knit with a guide rather than a pattern with this evocative knitting workshop/pattern. Combined with a knitalong and online tips, you can have your own private beach.

Born of rock and moss, twig and leaf, the inspiration behind this vest is organic and elemental. The stones around my house, heaved up by glaciers in primordial times and texturized by nature over the eons, influenced the hues blended together in this tunic-length vest. When I wear it, I imagine I’ve donned a sheath of lichen like some (large) ...

Spring opens up with a lacy little flourish of joyful greenery. Celebrate with this little vest worked side to side in lace ribbing and seed stitch featuring alternating colors in dk or sport weight yarns worked on size 5mm/8US needles. The lace stitches are simple. The textural detail comes from the mix of yarns and textures.

Celebrate our global culture with this Culture Fushion (fashion+fusion= fushion) wrap knit in predominantly black, rust and neutrals, a color combination easy to match using sport and DK-weight yarn. Stitchery is simple garter, drop-stitch, seed and yarn overs with i-cords added from which to dangle your personal collection of buttons and beads...

What happens if you ‘grow’ a wrap rather than simply knit it ? What happens when you think of a pattern as a seed rather than a plan?

Please note that the pattern is not free but the design is in knitalong form with the link at the bottom of the page. The free knitalong has been available since 2007 but the pattern is only now posted for sale. Sorry for the confusion.

The Road to Indigo will always be the road less travelled, the one you wished you‟d taken but didn’t or the one that left you wondering what your life would be like if you’d only gone left instead of right. It‟s the winding trail curving away into the forest, briefly glimpsed while speeding off to some have-to-be place; it‟s the path your imagi...

The Medici Coat is meant to be loose and flowing with Renaissance-style sleeves. The pattern is easily adjustable to plus sizes and accommodates sweaters underneath -- a real cold weather beauty, though I’m thinking of making a lighter version in cottons for the coming season!

It’s a cosy snuggle of a wrap designed to fend off salt air chills and the fiercest air conditioning attacks. It will sail into fall with grace. One long basketweave-stitched rectangle undulating with seed stitch borders, its irregular edges gently widen as the design progresses towards the center, forming a shawl collar. Though mine is knit in...

Eight patterns and many variations compiled into a lush ode to Tuscan inspiration complete with recipes and 87 pages of abundant full color photos create an e-book that can reside comfortably in your computer for quick, paperless access. Each time you want to knit a pattern, all you need do is print it off (or not) -- the choice is always yours!

This is a true shrug: a shawl with sleeves. The effect is loose, flowing, and almost shawl-like without the fumbling needed to keep a shawl in place. A little shawl collar completes the look. Imagine wearing it on a summer afternoon, to a wedding or a dinner out or, if you’re like me and dress up to go to the mailbox, to toss over jeans while d...

A mix of tapes and ribbons in the body creates the look of hand-woven silk while the sleeves brim in a fulsome mix of textury fiber. Optional buttons line the front. Knit side to side, the pattern can easily be adapted to any size with my ‘smart sizing’ solutions.

Here’s a stash-busting project that can be knit in lighter yarns for warmer climes or heavier threads for a wintry version to wear over your jacket. With the drop stitch reigning supreme, the drape is excellent and very slimming. This capelet will not make you look like you’re wearing an artful tent.

Think of the panel scarf as a canvas upon which to explore a wide range of scarf-as-jewellery or scarf-as-belt adventures. The central panel becomes the focal point from which you pick up stitches for the left and right sides. For Little Fishies, embellishments are added to the panel by way of i-cord fringes which are further beaded and festoon...

Here’s a speedy little vest that will happily mix a concoction of yarns probably already patiently waiting in your stash. Have a hank of hand-dyed yarn waiting for a home? Send it it here. How about a few textured specialty yarns like ribbons you may have purchased without really knowing what you’d knit with it? Here’s your answer!