This ebook includes instructions for both the Dorothy Hat and Fingerless Gloves.

This ebook contains both the Holly & Snowflake and Cross and Leaf stocking designs.

Fast and fun, this cowl is a great way to begin doing 2 color brioche - in the round! Beginning with the Chinese Waitress Cast on (for which there is a video tutorial, just a few rows of stockinette are worked before getting right into the brioche. Bulky yarn and just a few stitches makes for speedy knitting, and a fantastic finished object.

This lovely shawl is a great project for beginning brioche knitters. Worked from the top down, the pattern begins with a Garter Tab Cast On and proceeds into the brioche fabric, KYOK increases being worked at each end on the right side rows.

These colorful and quick accessories are a great way to dip your toe into stranded colorwork. The pattern includes 3 designs: 2 headbands and 1 neck warmer. They are worked in the round from edge to edge and use between 15 and 20 grams of three to four different colors for each piece. A great stash-busting project!

This is a great stash-busting project for those of you who have done Mason-Dixon’s fabulous Mitered Square Blanket. It uses eight different colors and is a quick fair-isle knit.

Updated November 2013 to make pouches larger to accommodate cases, etc.!

These earwarmers knit up in a flash and use only about half a skein of Noro Silk Garden.

This beautiful and colorful pillow is constructed by making individual triangles which are then seamed together. The two sides of the pillow are then joined by an attached I-cord bind-off after stuffing with batting. Two covered buttons are then attached at the center.

This striking little pillow can be a great way to get your feet wet with stranded knitting. Working in the round, six colors of cotton yarn are used to knit this fabulous, colorful tube, then the pillow is finished by working an applied I-cord around its perimeter. There is no seaming, only the 3 I-cord stitches to graft at the end!

A fun bag which looks fabulous in Noro Silk Garden colorways. It is knit with a slightly smaller needle than usual for its gauge (to create a firmer fabric) and features a monk’s cord strap and tassels. It can be lined with fabric for greater stability if desired.

Make these fabulous boot toppers and learn some new techniques in the process! These little gems begin with the Chinese Waitress Cast-On (found in Cap Sease’s book Cast On, Bind Off: 211 Ways to Begin and End Your Knitting) proceed to the Italian Chain Ribbing, then on to a lateral braid. You’ll switch to a Mock Cable pattern and finally end of...

If you like doing colorwork, you’ll love making this wonderful hat!

Love self-striping yarn, but getting tired of all striped socks? This fun pair uses one skein of self-striping yarn and one solid for a fair-isle knitting experience that has a lot of color punch without a million color changes.

This hat is made with only 2 skeins of Noro Silk Garden and has plenty of fun techniques, such as a slipped-stitch edging, and a small bit of fair-isle before you get to the entrelac.

I wanted to design a series of traditional Christmas stockings using various different motifs and certain repeating themes. The Cross and Leaf stocking is one of four different stockings in the series.

The Diamonds & Circles Stocking is one of four different stockings in a series of traditional Christmas stockings using various different motifs and certain repeating themes.

These feminine gloves have just the right amount of “pretty” and will bring both color and softness to your fall and winter accessorizing.

This charming hat is both fun to make and fun to wear. It begins with a provisional cast-on and is worked circularly from the brim to the top of the hat. The crocheted flower and the leaf-ended I-cord embellishments are worked separately and then sewn to the hat.

This moebius is a fast, beautiful, high-impact accessory that is so fun to knit, it’s like eating pistachios. (Betcha can’t make just one!)

These lovely ruffled gloves are a quick and easy knit. They feature a ribbed ruffle edge, corrugated ribbed wristband and lateral braid edging. If desired, the wristband can be worked in stockinette stitch rather than the corrugated rib; either way looks fetching!

These stunning fingerless gloves are made with one skein of Noro Silk Garden sock yarn and a little time and effort.

This bag makes use of Noro’s wonderful colorways in a different way. Lots of little details make this a fun and beautiful bag.

These handsome two-color slipper socks are a fantastic, fast knit for yourself or for a friend. Make them either two colors, or just one if you prefer.

I wanted to design a series of traditional Christmas stockings using various different motifs and certain repeating themes. The Holly & Snowflake stocking is one of four different stockings in the series.

This fabulous hat is brimming with style and fun techniques to keep you engaged as you knit. Worked from brim to top, Inspector Bucket begins with a provisional cast-on, proceeds to a picot turning edge, and is followed by a knitted braid and welted top. Finally, it is embellished with knitted roses in two sizes.

A simple yet elegant design makes this beret a fast and fulfilling knit. It begins with a slipped stitch edging, progresses to a fair-isle hat band, continues with a mixture of stockinette stitch and fair-isle, ending with an I-cord top knot. The pattern includes color charts and line-by-line instructions.

This beautiful beret knits up quickly as a great accessory for yourself or a friend. The beret begins with a provisional cast-on for the cable, which is worked flat, then joined with Kitchener Stitch. The rest of the hat is worked in the round from the brim and includes picking up stitches, increases, and double decreases. An online video tutor...

This fabulous hat is both easy to wear and engaging to knit. Suitable for either guys or girls, the Mystic River Hat has a top-down construction, beginning with Judy’s Magic Cast-On. The crown is then worked in the round while the rest of the body of the hat is worked in one long spiral, joining the hat to itself every right side row. It also i...

Another great bag in the Southwest series, the Navajo bag uses five colors of worsted weight wool to produce this stunning work of art. It uses both fairisle and entrelac techniques and has a welt at the bottom and a monk’s cord handle.

Get your fair-isle mojo going with this beautiful baby dress and hat! The dress is begun with a provisional cast-on, worked in the round to the armholes, then worked flat to the shoulders. The bodice fleck stitches are worked in duplicate stitch. A single crochet edging is worked around the bodice top and armholes. This pattern includes charts ...

This is a great pattern for stash decreasing as the pattern calls for nine different worsted weight wool yarns. Figure one skein for the main color and make that color the darkest of the project - black, brown, dark purple, etc. The color on the bottom of the stripe and the bottom of the bag will only take around 20 yds or so. I don’t have exac...

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Beautiful and elegant, these Renaissance Fingerless gloves make the perfect cold weather accessory, for yourself or for a friend.

Sailor Boy is the companion of another girlie baby hat, but is now being offered by itself.

Get your stranded knitting going with this adorable, easy-to-knit slouchy hat. Beginning at the brim with the Chinese Waitress Cast-On you’ll jump right into simple color work, then on to a Lateral Braid. There are simple increases, as well as single and double decreases, and you’ll finish off with the super-fun I-cord donuts.

This hat was designed for babies and children, but anyone can wear this hat given the proper amount of spunk! A nice, small fair-isle project that would be great for using up left-overs of Cotton Classic from, say, the Mason-Dixon Mitered Square Blanket…

This design uses simple variations of garter and stockinette stitch to create a modern, wearable shawl. Straightforward knit-or-purl through the back loop increases occur on the same end of the shawl, creating a beautiful, asymmetrical shape. The slipped stitches at the end of each row create a clean selvedge edge. Using raw silk or linen yarn,...

These fingerless gloves will take you from slipped stitches to fair-isle stitches, having fun all the way. They can be worked either on double-pointed needles, or one long circular needle using the Magic Loop technique. The gloves begin at the cuff working through the mosaic stitches, then on to the the body of the glove and the gusset, which a...

The Hearts & Trees Stocking is one of four different stockings in a series of traditional Christmas stockings using various different motifs and certain repeating themes.

I fell in love with The Dudester Scarf by Jana Pihota and just had to design at hat to go with it!

This pattern is designed as a first project for someone unfamiliar with entrelac. Necessary skills are knowing how to knit, purl, decrease and pick up stitches.

This is a very basic top-down sock pattern whose intent is to guide a first-time or newbie sock maker through the process without much wringing of hands.

This is a very basic top-down sock pattern whose intent is to guide a first-time or newbie sock maker through the process without much wringing of hands and give some variety to the weight of yarns he or she might want to use.

This is a great gift knit project. Find some pretty soaps, tie with ribbon - done!

This cell phone case was designed to go with the Pueblo Bag and uses up bits of left-over colors from the project.

This is a lovely little gift item!

This hat is a very straight-forward, super easy rolled brim style, but the fingerless gloves are the next step up for an advanced beginner. They have a shaped gusset with matching make-1 increases and all the rest is just knitting a tube. Lots of fun and a great gift ensemble.