Helter Skelter mitts are worked from the bottom up, featuring a 2x2 rib cuff and a fully worked thumb gusset. The pattern is a repeating 5-st cable pattern, worked without a cable needle (if you prefer). The result is a helical pattern of stitches that runs across the back of the hand and across the palm.

The Roseraie Sock pattern (which appeared in The Knitter issue 187) features a beautiful climbing leaf and bud pattern on the front and the back of the sock, and the heel is a slip-stitch flap and gusset, although you can substitute it with any heel you like! The stitch pattern is modified from one found in Knitting Patterns Book 250 by Hitomi ...

In Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 publication A Vindication of the Rights of Women she spoke of women’s entrapment by social expectation. “Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” The mitts feature a slip stitch ‘cage’ pattern topped and...

This snuggly, autumnal hat features a pleasing leaf motif to really get you in the mood for the changing seasons. It’s knitted in the round with some fun colourwork. It features long floats, which create a beautifully warm fabric.