This shawl was inspired by one designed by Christopher Salas, but the yarn I was using refused to cooperate for a long cast-on, so I snitched the concept and used it on a simple bottom up triangle that started with three stitches and employed a kf&b increase at the beginning and end of each row. My yarn was a pink camo (Caron Simply Soft) w...

On a sultry June afternoon I was surfing through Ravelry and spied an awesomely cute slice of watermelon dishcloth. So kitschy, but, OMG, like why should I have to get dishpan hands to enjoy this design? I really want - no – I REALLY MUST HAVE a slice of watermelon shawl for breezy summer mornings and evenings and overly air conditioned spaces....

The wickedly awesome texture is created by choosing to knit certain colors as they appear and purling others. In this case I used Back Light and knit whenever the yarn was pink, orange or yellow and purled whenever it was blue or green. Black was neutral, so if it was in a warm run I knit it and it if was in a cool run I purled it and if it was...

I recently saw a cowl with an 8 row Staghorn pattern - it was drop dead gorgeous, but I couldn’t quite get my brain wrapped around it. So off to the internet to do some research. I subsequently came up with a 6 row staghorn on a simplified background and was quite pleased with the results - so I wrote it up and even put the cable section in bol...

Legend of the Piasa (pie-a-saw) I had a very special, one of a kind ball of yarn. I love the colors - they make the rods and cones in my eyeballs dance with joy! I had a pattern in mind, but the swatch didn’t turn out quite to my liking, so I set the yarn aside. Recently I wrote a new pattern and decided to try a swatch in this yarn. The swatch...

I wanted a triangle shawl with a cabled spine, but after an exhaustive search found nothing that fit my desires or skill levels, so I took what I knew of shawl construction and came up with this pattern. I typically look for patterns that are fairly basic with maybe a little something to advance my skills, so if you are a basic knitter wanting ...