While they were not my favorite candy (that honor went to Root Beer Barrels), Circus Peanuts were still a childhood staple. There was just something special about that soft marshmallow-y interior and sweet banana flavor. A while ago while visiting the local big box craft store for an emergency yarn fix, I noticed several bags of those orange ca...

My cousin, Tasha, is super fashionable and I never know what to get her. This year I designed a short cabled button up cowl in super bulky yarn for her.

this is a rough recipe. an experienced sweater knitter may have no problem following it, but it is suggested that you read though the sweater and EPS sections of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Workshop, specifically the Saddle Shoulder sweater and variations before attempting, especially if you will need to make adjustments in sizing.

pattern is now available, thank you all for you patience!

Love oaks? awesome! purchase the Quercus Socks pattern via Ravelry and get the Oaksong Sweater pattern for free!

The myth of Arachne is well known to many a fiber artist: a mortal weaver, Arachne, boasts that her skill at the

beautiful color work shamrocks and Celtic knots adorn this lovely tam.

a woman that I know bought a nifty headband one year while on vacation, it was lopsided and wasn’t very well made, and fell apart rather quickly, when she went back a few years later to look for another she found that they were no longer made, so she asked me to make her one, but better.

While listening to one of my favorite bands and surfing for doily patterns one day, I noticed a certain motif seemed to be showing up a lot, and thought that it would look especially lovely on a beret. So I sat down with some graph paper, spare yarn, and a little imagination and wrote up this pattern.

Construction: Knit toe-up with Turkish cast-on and Sherman short-row heel. Written for magic loop or two circulars. “Because of the placement of the decreases and increases this sock does not have as much stretch as most patterns.”

Being knit with two strands of worsted yarn (and at a tighter than normal gauge) makes these mittens not only eye catching,

this is a relatively simple knit (the body of the shawl is simple and quite easy to memorize) made interesting by the Orenburg flavor.

many people report having trouble getting the lace part to lay flat on their necks while wearing. this is a simple blocking problem, the lace part needs a pretty severe blocking OUT to lay flat, while the ribbing should be squished IN for a snug fit around the neck.