These fun socks are perfect for knitting with self striping yarn or a nice solid. There is a design detail that keeps your interest but is easily memorized.

The Quickie Socks are amazingly quick to knit and fun. If you want the satisfaction of knitting a pair of socks and don’t have a lot of time these are great socks to knit for yourself or as a gift.

These fun socks will keep you interest and your feet warm. They have a beautiful pattern that will keep your interest and keep you knitting. The yarn used in the photos is Lily And pine in Lavender Cupcakes and Sandy beach and you can’t go wrong with the bit of cashmere to add softness and comfort.

About this sweater:

This bulky sweater is so comfortable and squishy. It is knit with six inches of ease for a lot of room to layer. It has long sleeves and give an oversized look. The sleeves can keep your hands warm, be folded back or scrunched up. Great for curling up with a great book or your knitting.

About this sweater

This fun shawl is knit across the top and then stitches are picked up to create each diamond.

These cozy fingerless mittens are perfect for those chilly days where you need to keep your hands warm but also fold down at the fingers and thumbs to allow use of your fingers. It is a simple pattern perfect for the first time fingerless mitten knitter.

This fun quick colourwork hat is perfect for a gift or for yourself. It is an easy to follow design that will keep your attention and the bulky weight means it will knit up fast.

This fun knit has loads of colour and texture to keep you interested and just when you need a change it changes to keep your interest. This wrap is beautiful and cozy and the perfect knit for looking inward.

This beautiful wrap is a blanket with sleeves. It is meant to drape and snuggle into with your favourite book or beverage. Wear is as a wrap with the front open for your day to day or wear it in reverse as you snuggle down in your favourite chair and knit a new project.

This fun and completely addictive knit is perfect for the cooler weather. It is knit in the round and uses short rows for the pop of colour details that you make using those fancy mini skeins you have hiding in your stash. You can make it with either five or six mini skeins and your favourite background colour.

Slouchies

Pasqua Shawl

Winter Doldrums Shawl.

This quick knitting hat is fun to knit and has enough interest to keep you going. You could have this hat completed in a day, which makes it great for gift knitting. It is a slouchy hat but you could decrease the length to make it more fitted or you could increase the length and make it even more slouchy. This hat would look great with a pompom...

This large shawl/wrap/shlanket is cozy and colourful. Because it is knit using a DK weight yarn it is fairly quick to knit and perfect to cozy up in during the cool Autumn and Winter days and nights. It has a very interesting zigzag pattern that is accomplished with simple lace and garter stitch. It is very intuitive and easy to follow. If you ...

The Kettle Valley Poncho is a comfortable light swancho that also includes a pattern for a sleeveless version poncho.

Intermediate

The Sorrento is a crescent shaped shawl and is inspired by the Village of Sorrento, the home of the Okanagan knitting retreat. This is the place I first learned how to knit lace and fell in LOVE.

Amazing there are two patterns in one. Written for both WORSTED WEIGHT and FINGERING WEIGHT you will find this pattern easy to find the perfect yarn for. Each version is knit with two skeins of contrasting colours but because of the texture they could easily be knit in one colour! What a versatile pattern.

This large and squishy shawl is knit with a worsted/ aran weight yarn, making it a quicker knit. It has three patterned sections knit in different colours that move smoothly into the next colour introducing each colour and pattern into the previous section.

The Stargazer Shawl is a one skein shawl knit

As a knitter, it is natural to want to use up every last scrap of beautiful yarn in our collections; because of the construction of the rows in this shawl it is perfect for using your scrap yarn from socks and makes a beautiful, colourful scrappy shawl that is large: just over seven feet long when blocked and just over two feet deep at the tip ...

This cute little Christmas tree decoration can be knit in your favourite sock weight yarn scraps. The pattern gives you instructions for a 2 1/2 pre form ball or if you chose to stuff it with your own choice of fibre fill.

What better way to curl up on a blustery day than with a wonderful knitting project that will turn into something you can cozy up in to go outside.

I designed this pattern while sitting on a train in Japan. It is a simple knit with a little bit of detail to create interest. There is a simple applied edging. The size and squishyness of the shawl is determined by blocking. If you want a softer shawl block gently, if you want a larger less squishy shawl then block it pulling the edges out and...

There are three size options available. This shawl is knit top down with an applied lace edging. The large needles give the fingering weight yarn a really nice drape which also uses a fair bit of yarn.

This pattern is named for the area I live in. The Okanagan Valley, which is a major fruit and wine industry area. Which means the ground is fertile and there are many orchards and vineyards here. The Okanagan orchard pattern is inspired by the planting and growth of the fruit trees that grow so abundantly here. Each lace section grows as the tr...