How many mini skeins and leftovers are lurking in YOUR stash? The three patterns in the Freeplay Collection are designed to work with any of them!

The Graceling Collection includes three wrap designs all inspired by Kristin Cashore’s Graceling Realm trilogy. There is one design for each main character: Katsa, Fire, and Bitterblue. The project is a collaboration with Debi of Blue Skin Yarns.

PIP is a straightforward top-down triangular shawl with a little stockinette, a couple of bands of eyelets, and a whole lot of mosaic. The banded structure means you can really show off your contrasting yarn(s): pair speckles, leftovers, or a long gradient with a solid main color for a unique version…or go with a striking two-tone approach. It’...

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With its six-stitch lace repeat and stretches of stockinette and garter stitch, Sparklight is a relaxing but eye-catching knit. Perfect for miniskeins or favorite leftovers, the pattern offers plenty of room to play with color, size, and even the number of panels you include. It’s a fun knit, a pretty finished piece, a meaningful reminder (keep...

Sometimes you just want to use a whole bunch of yarns together, whether they’re leftovers or mini skeins. Bonus if the pattern is pretty without being too intense to knit. Enter Chromatica: With its v-shaped bands, delicate geometric lace, and little pops of simple mosaic, it’s eye-catching, colorful, and wonderfully flexible. Your stash—and yo...

How many mini skeins and leftovers are lurking in YOUR stash? This improvisation guide is designed to work with any of them! Included are customizable recipes for wraps, scarves, cowls, and shawls as well as stitch ideas and guidance for finding and using gauge to plan your project. Use this guide again and again for a unique result each time.

How many mini skeins and leftovers are lurking in YOUR stash? The top-down Freeplay Cowl is designed to work with any of them! Work it as written, or use the guidance provided in the pattern to customize your version to suit your preferences and the yarn you have. Tips are given to alter the circumference, depth, number of colors, and even yarn...

How many mini skeins and leftovers are lurking in YOUR stash? The Freeplay Wrap is designed to work with any of them! The mix of fun construction and simple stitches makes Freeplay interesting to knit and incredibly flexible. Work it as written, or use the guidance provided in the pattern to customize your version to suit your preferences and t...

Some of the most engaging projects mix stretches of easy knitting with enough fancy bits to hold your attention, and Floraline is just such a pattern. The shawl begins with a garter tab cast-on at the center of the top edge and grows outward, with increases along the edges and central spine forming the triangle shape. After a stretch of stockin...

Pollinae features a panel of twisted stitches and simple lace flanked by bands of stockinette stitch. The motif is both written and charted.

Sometimes you want a fancy border on your cowl, but you don’t want to sacrifice a warm neck. Or sometimes you want the lace, but you also want a good Netflix or knitting group project. Flightfeather gives you both, pairing a delicately lacy flared edge with plenty of close-fitting, easy-to-work stockinette. It’s the best of both worlds: eleganc...

Merriam Webster defines a throughline as “a common or consistent element or theme shared by items in a series or by parts of a whole.” Sometimes that theme exists in a novel or movie; sometimes it exists in our lives.

In his book Just Mercy, public interest lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson tells of meeting a woman in the courthouse after one of his trials. After her grandson was murdered, she explained, she began frequenting the courthouse in order to be there for others who were hurting. “I decided that I was supposed to be...

We live in a world where it feels like a lot of the time we’re supposed to outshine one another. Social media encourages us to put our best possible selves on display, edited until they’re unrecognizable if necessary. Marketing messages invite us to compare our lives to some company’s manufactured ideal and figure out what’s lacking.

If there are two words that describe the Stardrop Wrap, they are ‘simple elegance.’ Imagine beautiful, silvery starlight dropping from its perch in the clear night sky to spread itself gently over the sleeping ground below.

Take a skein of DK- or fingering-weight yarn, a four-stitch repeat, and a little shaping fun and Escherite’s snuggly optical illusion is the result. The pattern is as perfect showcasing a skein of special yarn as it is for getting the look of a triangular shawl with a lot less yarn—and a lot less styling fuss.

Simple stitches. Gorgeous yarn. Flexibility. Sometimes, these pleasures are just what we want from our knitting, and Rainscape offers them all. The stitch repeat is easy to memorize, the pattern works with a range of colorways, and the dimensions can be altered to suit your preference or yarn put-up. Bonus: It’s also a quick but satisfying gift...

Intrical is one of those projects that is simultaneously potato chipp-y and satisfying. Intuitive lace and mosaic motifs flow seamlessly into one another as the background colors shift. Each section is perfect for a gradient set, miniskein, or favorite leftover, and the flexibility in terms of color schemes is vast. Whatever you choose, the FO ...

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When I was a kid, one of my favorite art activities was scratch-off paper. It was essentially card stock with a thin layer of black wax covering one side. Using a tool like an overgrown toothpick, you could scratch off the wax to reveal a kaleidoscope of bright colors underneath. You never knew which color you’d get next, the bright lines stand...

Sometimes you need a soothing, easy-to-memorize project that still lets you unleash a little creativity. Will your yarn choices be subdued or gradient, monochromatic, a special miniskein set, or some treasures from your leftovers bin? Do you want a wide cowl or a skinny one? Long, short, or that sweet spot in between? Sunstripe is designed to l...

The Forgiveness Shawl is designed to evoke the process of letting go. Worked from the top center out, the shawl moves through rows of repetitive, “stuck” stockinette before, after a little contrast row, it at last melts gradually into light and lovely lace—just the way our lives do when we let forgiveness in.

You know how some projects just make you feel good? Joy is that kind of project.

What does Courage look like to you?

Sometimes, knitting the same old shapes gets boring. Pixelex is perfect to break up the monotony: Knit in two interestingly shaped pieces and then joined in the round, Pixelex’s twist on classic elements (like bias knitting and mosaic) will capture and hold your interest.

Intricate doesn’t have to mean complicated. Stratia’s single lace motif plus rows of garter and stockinette stitch create the illusion of a piece that appears more complex than it really is. Repetition and intuitive lace make it easy to slip into a knitting groove, while the offbeat construction keeps things interesting (more on that in a momen...

Simple but eye-catching lace in a drapey, fun-to-knit shape? Check.

Ever struggled to choose one main color from two colors you adore? With Mirrorette, you can give them both a turn in the spotlight! Knit in two halves that are identical save for color placement, the finished wrap is a satisfying blend of symmetry and complement. Delicate bands of mosaic dots punctuate the lace motif and present inspiring oppor...

Looks can be deceiving: the dynamic pattern that makes up Subtlism’s unisex texture looks complicated, but it’s actually wonderfully simple. In fact, it’s made up entirely of knit and purl variations! The fabric also has a tendency to gently pleat itself, making it look even fancier. Isn’t it amazing what you can create out of just knits and pu...

Blending stand-out bands of mosaic with simple lace, Chevronelle provides enough variation to hold your interest while still being easier to knit than it looks. The mosaic sections double as transitions between colors, so you can show off a handful of your favorites instead of being stuck with a single main color.

Mosaic AND lace AND chevrons? Oh, yes, please.

For as long as I can remember, I have loved books and reading. Graceling by Kristin Cashore is one of my favorites, so when Debi of Blue Skin Yarns and I connected over it, of course a collaboration was born!

Designed to use up to ten different colors—from a gradient set to a stash-inspired mix—Simplexity blends simple stitches and textures to really show off your chosen yarns. Most rows are simple enough to count as mindless knitting, and the unusual end-to-end bias construction results in long, trailing stripes. The finished wrap is both generous ...

What do you do when you have a collection of leftovers too pretty to toss? You knit a Simplexity Cowl!

For as long as I can remember, I have loved books and reading. Graceling and its companion novels by Kristin Cashore is one of my favorites, so when Debi of Blue Skin Yarns and I connected over it, of course a collaboration was born! Fire’s Wrap is the second of three designs based on the trilogy. It’s named for the second book’s main character...

For as long as I can remember, I have loved books and reading. Graceling by Kristin Cashore is one of my favorites, so when Debi of Blue Skin Yarns and I connected over it, of course a collaboration was born!

Sometimes, the most eye-catching results come from the simplest stitches. That’s the case with Concentra, a cowl based entirely on garter, stockinette, ribbing, and a few simple four-stitch repeats. Alternating bands of colorwork and mesh leave plenty of room to play with color. The contrasting sections have an almost three-dimensional effect. ...

Have you been hunting for a great pattern to show off mini skeins, gradients, or favorite leftover bits? Is mosaic knitting on your list of things to try? Then say hello the Cascadial Wrap!

I have a photograph of my son when he was around eight months old. He’s sitting in a white laundry basket in my parents’ back yard in the middle of a lushly green Ohio summer. Outside the frame, my mother is blowing bubbles, which float across the image as my son looks up in wonder. It’s these colors and shapes that gave birth to Bubblish.

In Quillful, swirling lace flows seamlessly into elegant ribbing. Its inspiration comes from peacock feathers, with their blend of graceful curves and sturdy lines. Together, Quillful’s feather and rib motifs create a piece that’s dainty and substantial and maybe just a touch whimsical.

In Quillful, swirling lace flows seamlessly into elegant ribbing, all set off by a delicate little border. Its inspiration comes from peacock feathers, with their blend of graceful curves and sturdy lines. Together, Quillful’s feather and rib motifs create a piece that’s dainty and substantial and maybe just a touch whimsical.

You wake up to rain against your window. It’s a chilly, grey day, which is fine, because you don’t have to go out. You wrap yourself up in your favorite handmade quilt and head downstairs to make a cup of tea (or is it coffee?). Steaming mug in hand, you curl into your favorite chair, tuck the quilt around yourself, pick up your current favorit...

Looking for the perfect pattern for those precious variegated skeins you’ve been hoarding? You just might have found it!

Light and airy, yet generous in length: meet the Frostbright Wrap. Lace panels alternate with textured stripes to showcase anywhere from two to eleven colors (or more!) to perfection. Just pair your favorite heavier gradient or miniskein set or leftover bits of yarn with a main color and let your creativity run wild. And because it’s knit on th...

Glowing candle flames on a chilly evening as delicate shadows dance across the wall. A dimmed chandelier all swagged and glittering above a table full of friends. What images does Chandelic’s intricate lace pattern call to your mind? I fell in love the first time I saw it. I hope you do, too!

Dormancy: being in a state of rest or inactivity.

There’s something almost otherworldly about a grove of birch trees: straight white trunks drawn close together, branches thrown up to the sky, black markings on silvery bark. With every row, Birchgrove echoes its inspiration.

Consider Coloresque your invitation to play with color! Do you have a gradient or highly variegated skein you’ve been wondering how to use? A few mini skeins or leftover bits you’d like to combine? Two solids you think look great together but aren’t sure what to make?

You know those magical moments where things just…come together? That’s the way Envined came into being, the result of three small sparks: the construction, the yarn, and the stitch pattern. As they fell into place, one by one, I couldn’t help but follow the thread to see where it would lead me.

Do you love the idea of being tucked up in a secret hideaway as the world goes about its business outside? I certainly do. A shady bower, a tree house, a cave behind a waterfall, a forgotten garden bench…just you and a book and (of course) your current WIP (or three!).

In a forest, the understory is the hidden part you don’t see looking down from above; it grows beneath the main canopy of trees and can really only be seen from the inside. That’s the source of inspiration for Understoried’s flowing leaf and branch motifs.

Baywinter is that accessory you reach for when it’s not quite sweater weather but you’re in the mood for knitwear. Or when you need something versatile for a long and varied day. Or just when the office has the AC cranked up a little too high! It’s lacy and long for when you need something light, but you can loop it twice around your neck for a...