The “Loom Knit Fringed Bandana” is a warm cowl with a wide tip at the front. It is worked sideways flat using a broken rib stitch to add texture, and a knitted-in fringe worked at the same time you work the pattern, to make it different. The first and last rows are grafted using the Brenda Myers’ Kitchener bind off technique, adapted to 1x1 rib.

This is a lovely reversible cowl, framed by a border of rice stitch pattern that looks like a broken rib on the reverse side, and worked in stripes of “real“ two color brioche stitch pattern in the round, the kind of brioche pattern you get when knitting with needles.

These cute Santa Paws and Helper hats for dogs are easy to knit, great for practicing short rows, stranded knitting, and I-cord. The hats have a modular construction, with some modifications for adding Stranded Colorwork to the Helper’s Hat.

Dog snoods are great not only for keeping your dog’s ears and neck warm in cold weather, they can be used to prevent long haired ears from getting dirty during feeding time.

Twiddle Muffs, or sensory bands, are knitted or crocheted hand muffs decorated with interesting bits and bobs like beads, buttons, ribbons, flowers, zips, pompoms, etc, that have been designed to provide people with dementia something to sooth restless hands, minimize agitation, and promote brain stimulation while keeping their hands warm at th...

I’ve been playing with two color reversible stitch patterns and adapting them to “flat” loom knitting. This is a pattern and tutorial for a sampler cowl, and it shows how you can create warm and beautiful reversible stitch patterns, with different color designs on the opposite sides of your fabric, by working with slipped stitches, yarn overs, ...