Nadia Elgawarsha
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
I designed the fiddlehead and fern hat taking inspiration from the ferns that grow in the forests of my home in the Pacific northwest. There is only one adult size available, although you can readjust for a child’s size by sizing down yarn to dk weight and needles two sizes.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The London Fog Hat is a simple cabled beanie that I originally designed as a gift for my friend’s mom. I wanted something classic and stylish that would suit any age.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
The Snowflake mitts are a very basic pattern for fingerless mitts with fold down ribbing at the top.
Knitting: Slippers
The Whoville slippers (name was inspired by a family member who told me that they looked straight out of a Dr. Seuss book) are super warm thrummed slippers. Thrums are little bits of wool roving that you can knit into your work so that one side ends up all fuzzy.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Windbreak hat was inspired by a Japanese sashiko design that caught my eye. There are two versions of the hat available, version 1 (white hat w/ purple contrast) and version 2 (purple hat w/ white contrasting). They are both included in the pattern.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Forgotten Dreams Hat is a quick and easy hat knit up in a bulky variegated single yarn. I find that colorful yarns tend to obscure most complex stitches, but I’m always drawn to colorful yarns because they’re just so pretty. I wanted a hat to show off the colors of a variegated yarn in a stitch pattern that would complement the variegation,...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Holidayer hat was inspired by my love of winter holidays: Hot chocolate, eggnog, big family dinners, christmas lights, snowy mountains …I wanted to make a go to cozy hat that I would love to wear all winter.
Knitting: Cowl
This is a cabled cowl pattern. This pattern is knitted flat and then grafted together using the Kitchener stitch. Knitters need to know how to do a provisional cast on and how to do the Kitchener stitch. Tutorials for how to do both of these can easily be found online.
Knitting: Headband
This headband uses both knitting and crochet. It is knitted flat and sewn together using the Kitchener stitch, and then the sides of the headband are crocheted.