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Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Crochet: Doily
This will take less than one standard ball of #10 crochet cotton, such as Aunt Lydia’s, Crochet Royale, etc. for the cord. You can use various sizes of threads (suggested threads are #30 crochet cotton and #80 tatting cotton, but you can use other sizes as you choose). The amount you will need will vary with the choices you make.
Knitting: Stitch pattern, Chart
When I made my husband his “Liev” sweater , I wanted to replace the floral motif from the original pattern with something less obviously feminine. These are the motifs I came up with when I was deciding what to do. As far as I know, these are “original,” or at least, I wasn’t referring to any sources when I charted them. I ended up using the ve...
Knitting: Chart
This motif comes from an Estonian mitten pattern. You can see the mittens here. Muhv has graciously permitted me to copy her combination of traditional stitch patterns for the cuff she added to her mittens.
Knitting: Chart
This was inspired by a beautiful sweater I saw in a National Geographic catalogue. I loved the color combination. I think it would be beautiful with a long repeat tonal dyed yarn as the main color. Or you could make it with three different shades of the turquoise, Fair Isle style. This is long enough for an entire woman’s sweater at 8 rows per ...
Knitting: Chart
This little chart is one I made in response to this Ravelry thread. The original poster had seen a beautiful stranded Norwegian sweater and wanted the name of the pattern. No one had a name, but I was able to come up with a chart for the pattern, which features a stylized tesselated fish.