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SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner to Intermediate depending on style

Clever Potter offers three options here. First, you may make a conventional beret from the brim up in the round with a variegated yarn. Or (more fascinatingly), you may knit the beret in wedges with variegated yarn, which pools the colours more, and makes the crown extremely unusual and artistic to look at. You have to sew the wedges together, ...

SKILL LEVEL: beginner plus

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

For Lace Weight Yarn.

This is an easy one piece poncho knit from babyloop mohair and finished with fringe. If you have never knit a poncho before, this is a good place to start!

Knit two scarves from only 200 yards of yarn--one for yourself and one for a friend! Simple enough for beginners, the classic Rectangular Scarf is glammed up with eyelash yarn. The Triangular Scarf is a good beginner project in which to learn shaping.

Beginner knitters can build confidence with this simple yet stylish pair of adult socks knit from fingering weight superwash sock yarn.

This worsted weight garter rib satchel is surprisingly easy to knit and assemble. Finish it with a length of knitted icord.

These handy fingerless gloves are a quick knit in stockinette stitch with worsted weight yarn.

We’ve seen some baby sweaters made this way, but few adult ones-- this is a welcome change. You start at the front hem, cast on sleeves as you go, work up to the neck, cast off for it, continue on the sleeves, cast on gradually for the back neck, then continue down the back to its hem. At the end you have only the side seams to sew, and the nec...

A traditional feather and fan motif characterizes this classic scarf. Try it yourself!

Knit this sumptuous triangular shawl from bulky weight brushed mohair. It’s a quick knit beginner level garment that you finish with fringe.

These legwarmers are knit in the round using fairisle. Another wonderful way to use up a variety of leftover sock yarns!

This is a fancy diagonal tank knit from wide fringed ribbon novelty yarn. Size 15 needles make it a quick knit and finish with a simple crochet edge.

This striped triangular shawl has a block increase that creates tabs at the beginning of every stripe. It’s knit from a DK weight silk blend in an array of solids that co-ordinate with a colorway you choose.

Fancy ribbon and novelty yarns are ideal for this easy front tie shawlette. Great for evening wear or to keep the chill off your shoulders on a summer night.

Large loop boucle yarn and fringe create a pretty shawl. The fringe is added after the knitting is completed. Shaping is created with simple increases and decreases.

This is a quick knit poncho made from coordinating large loop mohair and matching ribbon. Knit it in a weekend and wear it to work on Monday!

This is a beginner level hat and scarf set knit with bulky weight boucle handpainted yarn. The yarn really does do all of the work for you here. You can adjust the length of the scarf as needed and finish with simple trim.

This is a quick and simple hat and mitten set, suitable for beginners. The hat features a ribbed brim and is knitted in the round The mittens feature ribbed cuffs and easy thumb gores and are knitted flat, then seamed.

A simple and cosy triangle shawl, showcasing three different multi sock yarn color ways.

Minimal finishing and clever construction techniques make this a simple and quick knit. Great for beginners! Single crochet finishes the neckline and sleeves.

It’s not just that it’s a great, beautiful, breathtaking laceweight skirt. It’s that Potter has you knit all the individual panels in a natural colour, and then provides detailed instructions (and helpful colour photographs) for dyeing them yourself to come up with the stunning effect you see here. She adds a lace panel at the bottom of each se...

On the model’s left arm, and on the left side of the shawl as shown, you can see Potter’s little garter ‘rib’ pattern. That, and the double line of eyelets marching up the back of the piece, is the only patterning in this basic shawl. Yet the designer has judged the piece very well: knitting a variegated sock yarn in this simple a pattern, at t...

Pick a textured dk weight yarn for this easy stockinette stitch tunic top.

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Advanced

SKILL LEVEL:Beginner

Timothy Leary (yes, that one) once said about goddaughter Winona Ryder that onscreen “she stands out like a polar bear on black velvet.” If you make and wear this dramatic triangular shawl, you will stand out the same way-- or, perhaps, like a zebra on a golf course. This is a very cool design, easy and fast and unusual in a very generous gauge...

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

This is a wonderful exercise for teaching Zen in knitting. You knit (or purl) in the long skinny two-colour strips you see (13 of them), increasing on one side of the fabric, and decreasing on the other. The decreases are P3tog tbl, but that’s a good thing to learn if you don’t know how, and it’s good for self-discipline. This is excellent trav...

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner Plus

This is just a dandy versatile little shawl pattern that works with all kinds of hand dyes. You start at the long edge of the triangle (over the shoulders) and work in garter stitch down to the point. Potter has shown this shawl with a novelty fringe-- an interrupted railroad ribbon, if anyone remembers them; but it would be just as lovely in o...

Skill Level: Beginner Plus

Two things are possible. Either you are a total lace newbie and afraid of all things delicate-- in which case you should buy this pattern right away and reassure yourself that everything’s usually easier than you think. Or you are an experienced lace hound looking for a relaxing breather after something like this. Because this is one of the eas...

Skill level: Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

This Ruana is not as complicated as it looks as each triangle is picked up and knit from the border of another. Knit the strips separately, then sew or knit them together. This versatile piece makes a statement and can be worn any number of ways. Lots of fun to knit--create your own palette from the many colors of Supersock.

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

This pattern for really, truly, Fagin-style fingerless gloves strikes a perfect balance between utility and fiddliness. Some patterns start the pinky below the rest of the fingers, and while that helps refine the fit, it’s very… fiddly. These beauties are very straightfoward, fit just fine, and include a whole covered thumb (which of course you...

This is one of those precious simple patterns that looks incredibly artistic when done. The magical creative part is at the beginning when you choose the yarns (if you can’t find the stated bulky weight Superwash Merino, try combining some or all of the yarns below). Mixing texture and color gives the very richest effect. After that, all is str...

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

SKILL LEVEL: Advanced Beginner

If you’re looking for fancy beaded accessories, look no further. This fingerless gauntlet and cap set can be knit with any luxury fingering weight yarn. String the beads onto the yarn and get ready to dress up any coat or jacket you may have with this beautiful set.

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner

This is a medium weight poncho knit from worsted weight mohair boucle and coordinating worsted weight ribbon to create a designer look.