Holly Woodward Designs
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Crochet: Pullover
Anthea is a hip-length jumper with a cute wide neck. This pattern features the Alpine Stitch worked with an ombre effect up the body and sleeves. The balloon sleeves are designed to hit just above the wrist for an easy breezy look!
Crochet: Pullover
The Ruthie Jumper is a slouchy jumper with a perpendicular “ribbing” texture running throughout the pattern. With straight sleeves and a boxy drop shoulder this sweater is super easy to throw on over so many outfits.
Crochet: Cardigan
The Ruthie Cardigan is a long-line cardigan with perpendicular “ribbed” texture running throughout the pattern. With fun balloon sleeves and a slouchy drop shoulder this cardigan is super easy to throw on over so many outfits.
Crochet: Pullover, Tee
The Gloria Jumper is a semi-cropped, 3/4 sleeve top with colour block granny square panelling across the chest and sleeves. With a classic boat neck and a comfy, boxy fit, this top is a great make for wearing throughout the colder months. As it’s quite a modular garment it’s easy to customise the body and sleeve lengths as much as you like!
Crochet: Tee, Pullover
The Gracie V Neck is a semi-cropped, colour block granny stripe tee. It’s made in one panel and only requires seaming at the underarm! It’s worked from the centre out, with the sleeves attached directly onto the body. This construction allows for a super comfy and boxy fit, great for tucking into jeans and skirts.
Crochet: Tee
The Cordelia Tee is a boxy tee with chevron filet detailing across the chest and shoulders. With tiny little zig-zag sleeves, this cute tee is a super wearable, breathable and fun addition to your handmade wardrobe. The classic boat neck and deep sleeve holes makes this top a great make for wearing throughout Summer.
Crochet: Tee, Cardigan
The Hattie V Neck is a cropped short sleeve top with colour block granny square panelling and matching granny square sleeves. With a cute button-up front and a comfy, boxy fit, this top is a great make for wearing throughout Summer, styled with almost anything!
Crochet: Cardigan
The Rita Wrap Cardigan is a cropped ruffle wrap-over cardigan with delicate filet detailing across the outline of the garment and cute little ruffle sleeves. The classic wrap style and deep sleeve holes makes this top a great make for wearing throughout Summer.
Crochet: Pullover
The Rena Jumper is a form-fitting jumper with extravagant ruffle detailing around the wrists, hem and neck. With a slightly cropped fit and tapered sleeves, this makes the ideal Spring wardrobe staple to keep you warm. The pattern was designed to use a contrast colour for the ribbing, but feel free to keep it to one colour, it’ll still look ama...
Crochet: Cardigan
The Prue Cardigan is a belted cardigan with cable detailing around the neck and down the centre back. With balloon sleeves and a neat ribbed cuff around the wrist, this cardigan is about to be your new favourite make.
Crochet: Pullover
The Sybil Turtleneck is a split-hem jumper with a snuggly turtleneck, made almost entirely out of granny squares. With straight sleeves, featuring a cute turned cuff, this jumper is taking granny square sweaters to a new level!
Knitting: Vest
The Cora Slipover is a super chunky knit vest, made using three strands of DK held at once. It produces the most gorgeously squishy texture that makes the best layering piece in your handmade wardrobe. With a simple crew neck and neat ribbed detailing around the hem, neck and arms, it’s such a fun and sophisticated piece designed to use up that...
Crochet: Pullover
The Gertie Jumper is a slightly cropped, drop-sleeve granny jumper with some seriously large balloon sleeves! With a flattering crew neckline and polished ribbed cuffs, this humble granny stripe jumper is going to be your new favourite. It’s a really easy pattern, made from simple shapes that are seamed at the end to form the jumper - suitable ...
Crochet: Cardigan
The Jilly Cardigan is a hip-length, button-up cardigan that is made with the wonderful Join As You Go method. With a gorgeous patchwork colour-block granny squares and exaggerated balloon sleeves, this cardigan is going to be your favourite Winter layer!
Crochet: Vest
The Gracie Tabard is a sideless vest with a square neck, made almost entirely from the classic granny stripe stitch. It features rows worked vertically to produce a seamless transition from the inner body panel to the shoulder straps.
Crochet: Dress
The Gertie Pinafore is a layering dress design to be worn over shirts and blouses made almost entirely out of granny stripe stitch. Made using cosy acrylic DK yarn, it’s a perfect versatile layer for cooler Autumn days. With a square neck and long straps, it’s a modern take on the popular pinafore silhouette.
Crochet: Pullover
The Wrenn Top is a cropped, wrap top with a banded hem that is designed to sit on the waist. Paired with dramatic balloon sleeves, this top is great for casual day trips or fancy evenings out. Whilst all measurements per size are given in the pattern, it’s up to you to decide how tight your wrap (or front panel overlap) is.
Crochet: Vest
The Ffion Vest is a really versatile vest that makes the ideal breezy Summer tank or Autumn staple layering piece. With delicate filet detailing around the hem and shoulders and a modern square neck, this make is the ideal wardrobe staple. It’s an addictive and mindful pattern that’s ideal for both beginners and experienced makers.
Crochet: Cardigan
The Ioana Cardigan is a cropped, tie V-neck worked in elegant Iris Stitch (2 tr, ch 1, 2 tr). This stitch is open and lacy, making it an ideal light layer for summer or even a cute coverup for the beach! The full-length sleeves and tie neck create a breezy boho look that is sure to pair well with dresses, jeans and skirts.
Crochet: Market bag (slouchy)
This sweet little market bag was designed to replicate a traditional string bag, using granny squares instead! The granny squares are only slightly different to the original design, omitting the second treble in each 3-treble cluster for a chain stitch to produce a lacy, mesh-like bag.
Crochet: Vest
The Mavis Vest is a v-neck tank with geometric filet detailing around the hem and cups. This classic silhouette makes it easy to pair with almost anything and the cotton yarn is light and breezy, making this top ideal for sunny days. The straps are wide enough to cover your usual bra straps, so there’s no need to go strapless unless you wish to!
Crochet: Tee
The Hattie Tee is a cropped short sleeve top with colour block granny square panelling and matching granny square sleeves. The classic boat neck and boxy fit makes this top a great make for wearing throughout Summer, styled with almost anything!
Crochet: Sleeveless Top
The Celeste Vest is a really versatile vest that makes the ideal breezy Summer tank or Autumn staple layering piece. With delicate embroidery detailing scattered around the hem and shoulders and a traditional scoop neck, this make is the ideal wardrobe staple..
Crochet: Pullover
The Gracie Jumper is a ½ sleeve granny stripe jumper with a crew neck, made almost entirely from the classic granny stripe stitch. It features rows worked vertically to produce a seamless transition from the body panels to the sleeves and only requires seaming along the shoulders and from the underarm to hem!
Crochet: Cardigan
The Beatrice V Neck is a super slouchy, button-up cardigan with a deep plunge neckline, making it the perfect spring layer piece. The body and sleeves are made almost entirely out of treble stitches, making this a quick and easy garment to work up, with simple decreases to create the neckline and balloon sleeves. I chose to use DK yarn to have ...
Crochet: Headband
The Gigi Headband is a fun and colourful, granny-style twist headband with trailing ties. It makes an ideal scrap buster (only requiring 124m of cotton DK) and can be worked up in a couple of hours!
Crochet: Cardigan
Gertie is a super summery, drop-shoulder cardigan made almost entirely from the classic granny stripe stitch. This stitch is so calming and meditative and the pattern calls for the gorgeous Debbie Bliss Piper yarn, perfect for relaxing in your garden this summer! It’s a really easy pattern, made from simple shapes that are seamed at the end to ...
Crochet: Pullover
The Sylvia Jumper is smock-style garment that really plays around with contrasting textures and shapes! With a wide neck, drop shoulders and ¾ length sleeves, it’s designed to be a fun garment for all bodies. It’s got a simple upper body, with fun granny squares worked and joined to create the lower part of the smock jumper.
Crochet: Cardigan
The Gigi Cardigan (as seen in Inside Crochet) is a cropped, drop-sleeve granny jumper designed to make you smile each time you wear it! With super dramatic balloon sleeves and a cuffed hem, this cardigan has both a modern and flattering fit. This pattern was created to be a stash-busting project so every colour under the sun will work! Whether ...
Crochet: Cardigan
Blaire is a super chunky bell sleeve cardigan made using two strands of DK yarn held together. By using two strands of DK, it allows you to really play around with colour and produce a squishy, size-inclusive cardigan that is perfect for snuggling up in!
Crochet: Earwarmers, Hair accessories
The Rosa Earwarmer is my take on the latest trend of twisted headbands! After being asked to make one by my younger sister, I decided to have a go making it look as much like knitting as possible. After finishing my first earwarmer, I just had to make a matching scrunchie! As it’s worked in DK, the stitches look so elegant and defined.
Crochet: Pullover
Brie is a granny stripe, cropped, boat neck, batwing jumper made out of only two panels worked in a traditional granny stripe stitch. There are no sleeves to attach and it requires minimal sewing to join, so this is a fantastic beginner crochet garment, especially if you’re used to the granny stitch!
Crochet: Pullover
The Mabel Jumper is a cropped, bell sleeve, crew neck, drop shoulder jumper with a funky pattern worked in tapestry crochet. This sweater is made with Aran yarn, almost entirely out of UK treble (US: double crochet) stitches, so I’m not fibbing when I say it works up super quick!
Crochet: Hanging Ornament
The Holly Jolly Crochet baubles are super easy and quick to work up, made using the basic crochet techniques and stitches. They’re beginner-friendly and quite addictive to make, so expect a whole yarny Christmas tree this year! This pattern includes 3 different bauble designs for you to make.
Crochet: Cardigan
The Velma Cardigan is a cropped, drop-shoulder button-up cardigan worked almost entirely out of HTR. It’s made using Aran yarn so it’s super squishy and very quick to work up! It’s an incredibly versatile make: you can wear Velma open, buttoned and with or without a layer underneath.
Knitting: Hanging Ornament
The Holly Jolly Baubles are cute little fair isle baubles, worked in the round on double pointed needles (DPNs) or using the magic loop method. To make the baubles, you only need to know the very basic knit stitch, how to knit forward back, k2tog, and how to work with colour (fair isle/stranded colourwork). This pattern includes 12 different fa...
Crochet: Vest
The Jude Vest is a long-line sleeveless cardigan worked entirely out of Iris Stitch (2 tr, ch 1, 2 tr). It’s worked in one piece from the bottom up, splitting for the body and front sections and only requires seaming at the shoulders! It’s a fuss-free, beginner-friendly make that will add a great addition to your wardrobe.
Crochet: Pullover
The Maya Jumper is a boat neck, drop shoulder, balloon sleeve jumper with intricate mandala detailing. Whilst the mandala looks dainty and fiddly, I promise you only need to know the basic crochet stitches to create this beauty. I originally created this design after being inspired by Fair Isle knit jumpers and several prototypes later I decide...
Knitting: Decorative - Other
The Squishy Squashes are my very first knitting pattern, and I’m so glad to have made them in time for Halloween and Autumn.
Crochet: Pullover
The Alba Turtleneck is a hip-length, drop shoulder turtleneck with flattering tapered sleeves. It’s worked almost entirely out of HTR/HDC in DK yarn and is very easily customisable to make as long or as short in the body as you wish. It’s a super beginner-friendly pattern, available in both UK & US terminology so you don’t have to translate...
Crochet: Pullover
The Gigi Jumper is a hip-length, drop-sleeve granny jumper designed to make you smile each time you wear it! This cheery make is complete with balloon sleeves and a flattering crew neckline, demonstrating just how versatile the humble granny square can be.
Crochet: Cardigan
The Lilith Cardigan is a drop-sleeve long-line cardigan with deeply cuffed balloon sleeves. Thanks to its simple and classic shape with the addition of dramatic sleeves, this pattern is a super easy make and is perfect for bodies of all shapes and sizes. With plenty of positive ease in the sleeves and bust, this cardigan is designed for wrappin...