Drawing inspiration from some favorite stories of my childhood, this first Hygge Canyon Lit Trilogy features three sock patterns with simple texture and addictive cablework.

Inspired by my favorite songs and our family vinyl collection, the sock patterns in the Hygge Canyon Vinyl Series play with color and texture in lyrical ways.

Jane Eyre, one of the renowned stories in literature, has inspired authors throughout the 20th and 21st centuries to create works that are the literary children of Jane. Beginning with the original tale, The Jane Quartet explores these literary offspring through yarn and simple stitches.

Inspired by the neighborhoods peppering the Wasatch front, Salt Lake’s hilly East side, the sock yarn-based patterns in the Benches Collection are lightweight and ready for action during the mercurial season transitions.

Inspired by Salt Lake City, the busy hub of the Beehive state, the Salt Lake Collection features cozy knits, perfect for a chilly day in the city and beyond.

Drawing inspiration from The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, the two-pattern Winternight Collection is made for nights when you need a little extra comfort from your knitting.

Inspired by the Feathertail dragons in Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing, this sock pattern features a lace and cable motif down the front of the socks and a dragon-scale inspired garter-stitch heel flap.

Inspired by the book trope of the Unreliable Narrator, a key element of Thrillers! Like novels with unreliable narrators, this pattern features twists and turns (cables) and holes (eyelets) in their story. This pattern looks amazing in both solid, tonal colorways, and lightly speckled colorways.

Inspired by neat rows of seedlings and sprouts, the Greenhouse Socks feature an easily memorizable pattern of knits and purls.

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This pattern is meant for your most highly speckled yarn and is intended to help you celebrate your favorite “difficult to use” skeins with something just beyond a plain stockinette sock.

An October morning spent traipsing through the woods; the sky is blue, the sun is shining through the crimson and gold leaves as your feet kick up those that have already fallen onto the forest path. Can you imagine a better day? When you return to Camp, a hammock is waiting for you, along with your coziest, striped wool socks.

Inspired by the poem “October” by Robert Frost, this sock pattern features a stretchy twisted, ribbed cable down the back of the leg into the heel, evoking falling leaves, twisting branches, or rushing water.

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Criss-crossing cables and two weight options are the hallmarks of the Road Through Midnight Socks, a quick shortie pattern for when you’re racing through through time and only a quick project will do.

The Ardently Socks pattern is a sweet spring ankle sock that embodies Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have to overcome mis-steps and miscommunications before they arrive at a perfectly harmonious relationship. With this project, you’ll explore criss-crossing ribbed cables for those missed moments, two colors that cont...

Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale The Secret Garden, in collaboration with Back Loop Yarn Co, the Into the Garden Socks feature a brick wall and flower cuff detail that quickly transitions into calming stockinette stitch. With a balance of intrigue and familiarity, this pattern is a perfect springtime knit.

Inspired by the guardian spirits of home and hearth in The Bear and the Nightingale, this sock pattern is ultra cozy—just the thing for curling up with a great book. The wide cables, designed to look like fireplace openings, work beautifully with tonal yarn or your wildest variegated skeins. Don’t forget a mini for your cuffs and toes!

A shift in perspective: Antoinette Bertha Mason, the “mad” woman in the attic, shut away by Rochester. Is he a hero or a villian? The Perspective Socks, inspired by Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, feature a bit of trompe-l’oeil provided by 1x1 cables that unexpectedly change direction as they re-frame the familiar Gentle Reader ribbing.

Created in collaboration with Backloop Yarn Co., the That Time of Year sock pattern is a flowing rib and lace pattern, inspired by “The Christmas Waltz” as performed by She & Him. As you work the repeats, I hope you’ll find yourself humming along in 3/4 time.

Featuring “portal” lace and the standard Jane Quartet smocked stitches, these fast-to-knit socks--inspired by Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair--are perfect for showing off speckled or richly toned yarn.

Mix Jane Eyre with a hint of Ghostbusters and you have a recipe for a delightful YA tale with Charlotte Brontë in a starring role. My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows inspires an expanded take on the Gentle Reader design, combining smocked stitches and a slipped border. I’m thrilled to partner with The Backcountry Kn...

Socktober 2021

With simple stitches passed over one another, the Gentle Reader Socks create a soothing knit, perfect for a cup of tea and a classic novel, such as the one that inspired this pattern: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

Sharp angles and ridges feature prominently in the lace cuff of the Lightning Ridge Socks, inspired by a favorite overlook in the Uinta mountains. This pattern is full of options - from contrasting colors and stripes to the length of the calf. The best part? The yardage of each color makes this pattern perfect for using the leftovers from other...

When Taylor Swift released her Folklore album in July 2020, I had no idea how much each song on that album would come to mean to me. I cried to these songs, and laughed, and sang my heart out in quarantine. And a year after its release, my favorite song from the album, “Invisible String”, inspired this simple, elegant shortie sock pattern. As k...

Created in collaboration with Utah Fiber Collective for a special Utah-themed Summer countdown, the Mountain Switchback Cowl celebrates the numerous hiking trails scattered throughout this mountain-desert state. As I designed, I had in mind the switchback trails leading through Millcreek Canyon up to Dog Lake, a favorite summer hike of mine.

The Olympus Cove area is almost Alpine in nature: houses and shops dot up the farthest Eastern side of the valley with Mount Olympus towering overhead. For this design, I reached for a cozy, sturdy tweed BFL yarn from local Salt Lake dyer Rhapsody Fiber and loaded up on the texture. Broken rib ridges extend into the heel flap and a slight cable...

Designed in collaboration with Woolberry Fiber Co. for the Wilderness Winter 2021 collection, The Spruces socks feature a three-tree motif and broken rib details inspired by late Autumn and Winter wilderness getaways when you need your coziest knits.

Originally released to a limited number as a Mystery Knit-along in December 2020, this Guernsey-inspired wrap is coziness personified! The oversized asymmetrical triangle design and double-stranded construction create an accessory that’s easy to snuggle with while reading a good book.

The sun is coming up on Christmas Eve and all you want is a warm pair of socks and a cup of coffee. With their pine tree motif and simple ladder ribbing pattern, the Christmas Eve Hygge socks fit the bill. Now where’s that coffee?

Some say the old mill is haunted. Some say it’s romantic. The abandoned Cottonwood Paper Mill, tucked into a hidden hollow at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon, has sparked Utah imaginations since a fire in 1893 left the mill a stone husk. This fully reversible crescent shawl is inspired by the enduring strength and loveliness of the mill’s rem...

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Designed for the Woolberry Fiber Co. 2020 Advent kits, the Vintage Ornament socks use colorful mini skeins to recreate the playful stripe patterns featured on ornaments from the 1940s.

The first snow in October dusts the foothills, leaving the autumn colors peeking through the frost or wide swaths of yellow, orange, and green, depending on how the storm hit the mountainside.

Bundle up for a day of ice skating or a concert under the stars with this cozy waffle knit and cable shawl. Dedicated to one of the coolest places on Salt Lake’s Main Street, where you’ll find city adventures year-round.

Inspired by the deep forests of our imaginations—from the dark woods of Sleepy Hollow to the Black Forest of the Grimms’ fairytales to the endless trees stretching before Robert Frost—this sock pattern features two leaves intricately woven into 2x2 ribbing. I designed this pattern to be an addictive, quick knit for Soctober 2020, perfect for So...

The Angela Socks, inspired by The Lumineers song of the same name, feature feminine, sweeping lace waves, traveling toward the inside of each foot, and ribbing; a design playing on the sense of freedom and longing for roots in the song’s lyrics.

Named for the prehistoric shoreline and hiking trail that traces the edge of the Salt Lake Valley, the Bonneville Shoreline Socks feature an eyelet-and-cable design that is the sister pattern to my Red Butte Garden socks. Some sunny summer morning or autumn afternoon, treat yourself to a hike along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail—you’ll venture ...

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what normal is anyway. Thank you.” -- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Would you choose to live forever? This question lies at the heart of Tuck Everlasting, the inspiration for an infinity cable with delicate eyelets, knit using a sturdy BFL sock. The color of this yarn evokes the road through Treegap--a reminder to never stop moving and growing.

The Sprinkler Days Socks are an ode to Summer: a playful, lace shortie sock, just right for when your toes are a little chilly at night. The lace motif is a broken diagonal, inspired by the sight of water shooting from sprinklers.

There is nothing like a good story, as L.M. Montgomery’s heroine Sara Stanley knows—she is, after all, the Story Girl. This sock pattern celebrates the power of story with two sets of interwoven cables inspired by the short stories nestled into the overarching narrative of The Story Girl.

Tucked into the foothills above the University of Utah, lies a natural conservatory like no other. Red Butte Gardens is Salt Lake City’s favorite summer concert venue, a gateway to stunning hiking trails, native plant garden center, and plant education destination. These socks are dedicated to the Garden’s twisting pathways and neatly planted r...

Twisting trees, deep pools, and moss-covered stones hide the secrets of the Limberlost… and inspire a combination of quick-to-knit moss stitch and cables in this cozy sock. I highly recommend a lighty speckled or tonal yarn for my A Girl of the Limberlost -based sock pattern to highlight the texture and cables. Note: Full instructions are provi...

Twisted ribbing and crossover cables recall the interplay of the two melodic lines of Belle & Sebastian’s song, “Write About Love”.

Ribbing and cables provide a meditative knit that mimics the rolling melody in one of my favorite Coldplay songs, “Don’t Panic.” Tip: This pattern makes tweed fingering yarn sing!

My favorite Radiohead song is, without a doubt, “No Surprises” from the album OK Computer. Drawing on the chorus of “no alarms and no surprises,” this pattern takes the standard ribbed sock and transforms it through color. As you work through the special touches in this design, I hope you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the way your yarn choices ...

Nestled in the hills just below the Capitol building is one of Salt Lake’s oldest neighborhoods, named after the fruit trees that used to line the streets. With the Marmalade District Socks, I hoped to capture the narrow curving streets and hidden gems that await any visitor to this area.

The Dimple Dell Toque is a comfy beanie, featuring a double brim, waffle-knit texture, and a twisting cable up the side (or back)! Knit at a tight gauge, the cozy and sturdy fabric is perfect for late winter or early spring outdoor adventure.

With two ribbed cables inspired by the Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons and a twisted cable up the center, the Between the Canyons Sock pattern is close to my heart and home! Slip these socks on, tuck your feet into your boots, and head to the canyons or wherever your outdoor adventures take you.

The Salt & Honey Slouch is an ultra-cozy, slouchy beanie, featuring a double brim, seed stitch texture, and a playful honeycomb cable panel. Once you get through the folded brim, this hat flies off the needles, making it a fantastic option for gift knitting. Plus, tweed yarn held together with a fluffy mohair silk or silk suri alpaca result...