Around and around and around she goes!

Ring System combines alpaca yarns in two weights to make an impossibly soft cowl using the most basic knitting technique of simple stockinette in the round.

I love, love, love stranded color work and I love good, robust wool yarns. One Pebble Tossed celebrates those loves with a mirrored stranded knitting motif suggesting ripples in still water.

Simple to knit, the whole mitt is worked in garter stitch. Our Flywheel mitts used five colors, the Plain Yarn just three. Stripe as written or as you like. Learn to graft in garter, instructions included!

A fresh, fun two color stranded knitting pattern with a bouncy straightforward motif. Two skeins in two colors make two hats. Two sizes--adult M & L.

Complex yarns really shine in simple patterns.

Designed to show off the contrast and texture in Plain Yarn, this fair isle inspired hat is fun to knit, features Latvian braids (right and left leaning!) and has a beautiful striped crown.

In the northern Rockies, periodic forest fires empty the landscape of color. Within a few weeks, grasses and trees sprout in the understory. As the bark falls from the burned trees the silver snags begin to dominate the canopy, where they will stand for decades to come. Along with the blue skies, the green and silver of living and dead trees cr...

A companion piece to “Lakeside,” this pattern is an abstraction of the vertical forms that make up a forest. Fingering weight yarns in high contrast make a hat that is stylish, interesting, and easy to wear.

A simple brioche pattern written to help knitters learn how to work and practice the brioche stitch in two color 1 X 1 rib in the round.

The design inspiration for this piece lies solely in Erica’s incredibly creative mind. Her #knitlandscape project reveals an inspired view of the world--and her world is boundless! Traveling, photography, and a commitment to a creative life inform this piece.

Every baby needs a simple, functional hat!

Designed to take advantage of the tonal color changes in hand dyed yarns, this alternating lace pattern creates a peculiar puckered fabric that can be blocked flat (as shown). One or two skeins make a scarf or shawl sized rectangle.

From Lancaster Yarn Shop comes a new take on a plain hat!

Rockfall is a companion piece to Upstream, a second experiment in small charts repeated over and over again. Using two contrasting gradient colorways, one neutral and one bright and colorful, the patterns of Rockfall are as as gradual and as sudden as a rock-fall along a river.

Plowfield is a great first (or one hundred and first!) project. This straightforward, simple garter stitch scarf pattern was developed for use in a beginner’s knitting class. Garter stitch is simple to work and a pleasure to knit.

The Two-Step Toque is a cozy hat and a quick knit--named for the old timey dance move, this is a cool hat!

A simple pattern that is easy to wear, Scilicet is worked end to end with a garter border. Gradual increases and decreases form an isosceles triangle.

A simple, long striped scarf worked entirely in garter stitch.

Fault blocks show motion and change in the earth -- block faults show lines of motion along which those changes occur. The ground moves under our feet, slowly - our markers, whether locking-ring or geological-survey, keep track of the motion.

’After Ursula’ was designed to use up four partial skeins of fingering weight yarn leftover from the fair isle section of my Kate Davies’ Ursula Cardigan.

I love twisted stitches, and this hat features twisted knit stitches paired with a simple rib--to achieve a dense, warm, and comfortable winter hat.

I’ve changed the name of this hat to make it a little bit easier to find on Ravelry. I hope it helps and that you’ve found it and it’s what you’re looking for!

This lacey scarf and shawl pattern meanders and waxes and wanes like the beautiful moon in the sky. Knit your way through the lunar cycle.

Do you need something for a last minute gift? What about a surprise snowstorm? Just plain tired of making things for other people? Cat ate your scarf?

This beautiful wave pattern has origins all over the world and through all times. We see it in Pompeii in mosaics, along reliefs in Egyptian frescoes, and in garments woven in Central and South America.

Classic lines, a traditional checkerboard pattern in Fair Isle stranding paired with an extraordinary yarn make this a very special hat. Two skeins of Plain Yarn will make two hats.

Fat Quarters are mini skeins of our LYS Kettle Dyed Sock Yarn. One set of three mini skeins makes this simple striped slouchy hat.

We love color and we love stripes! These simple stockinette socks are a lively introduction to sock knitting and working with multiple colors. The stripes are worked with floats on the inside of the sock.

Top-down, triangular, striped shawls are ubiquitous--and simple. Here is ours!

This is a simple recipe for a Moebius Cowl made using Cat Bordhi’s magical moebius cast on. The cowl can be made larger or smaller by changing the number of stitches cast on. Two skeins of Cascade’s 128 Superwash makes a lovely, wide and long cowl.

A sweet, bouncy hat in stockinette and reverse stockinette RAINBOWS!

Poetry is an oversized scarf, worked in garter stitch with a picot cast on and bind off. Size 8 needles make the fabric extra drapey and lovely.

These fingerless mitts are designed to match our Amish Country Beanie. The scallop pattern at the cuff was modeled after the cuff of a pair of late 19th century/early 20th century Amish Wedding Socks from the Lancaster County area.

This shawlette is a simple stockinette triangle. It begins with a garter tab cast on and then is worked in stockinette stitch increasing 6 sts every 2 rows. A garter stitch border gives it weight and prevents rolling. It grows rapidly and showcases the dramatic color changes in this gradient dyed yarn.

NEW, updated version with multiple sizes September 15, 2022!

Threshing Floor is a plain and fancy sock. From the front, it looks like a simple stockinette sock. The back features a cable from cuff to heel--fancy!

The Covered Bridge Cowl is a chunky, easy to make and easy to wear cowl. One skein of giant yarn, one set of BIG OL’ needles and a couple of hours of seed stitch and you’ve got a cozy cowl. Wear it in one big loop or doubled or tripled--this is a nice long cowl.

This scarf can be knit with one fewer lace pattern repeats for a narrower scarf or lengthened with the addition of 12 row repeats.

Be sure to reserve enough yarn for your bind off! Your gauge may vary--some knitters are finding they need nearly 4 yards of yarn to bind off cowls knit on US #13 needles. happy knitting!

Purple Zephyr socks are named for an imaginary Lancaster County steam engine. The Railway Stitch is a 19th century rib pattern that imitates train tracks. The pattern features two distinct choices for the heel--an unusual garter short row heel & a traditional gusset heel.

A simple, fun moebius cowl. This is a small cowl knit in a bulky yarn. Trust the pattern! The cast on for this project is Cat Bordhi’s incredible & clever moebius cast on as shown in this youtube video.

Lancaster Yarn Shop is in the heart of Amish country in Lancaster County, PA. We are surrounded by Amish farms & the ubiquitous wash lines which sometimes are hung with dresses and aprons in these traditional Amish colors. The scallop in this hat mirrors the scallop found on knit & crocheted afghans & is very like patterning found o...

This is a great pattern for learning the basics of Fair Isle technique with an easy to memorize (and see) pattern. It is a very simple hat, so you can really work on your strategies for keeping the tension even. This hat can be re-sized for a child by decreasing 12 sts at the cast on.

Named for my favorite locally roasted coffee blend, this is a delicious, simple sock. Locally dyed coffee colored yarn makes a nice fall sock. Enjoy this free sock pattern designed for our Thursday Knit Night Fall KAL!