KC Knitting Co
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
VELELLA is a colorwork wrap featuring a detailed and elegant Persian-style motif, depicting a curiously beautiful sea creature called velella velella.
Knitting: Neck / Torso - Other
DICKON & MARY is a pattern set honoring the beloved novel The Secret Garden.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Tenderwood Hat Deux is a 2-color version of the original 3-color Tenderwood Hat. The motif is simple and repetitive, making this a suitable pattern for stranded colorwork beginners. Add a bit of texture with purl stitches if you’re feeling adventurous!
Knitting: Cowl
A simple paneled cowl comprised completely of knits and purls. Designed for a meditative knitting experience, this piece invites you to focus on the micro movements of each stitch while contemplating how they come together to form a beautiful, cohesive whole.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Piscine is an elegant colorwork hat featuring a twin dancing fish motif surrounded by geometric diamonds and tiny dots. Choose from a close-fitting beanie or oversized slouch to customize your look. Knit with Brooklyn Tweed’s incredibly soft, yet springy and warm worsted weight Imbue, this will be your go-to fall and winter accessory.
Knitting: Scarf, Cowl
Pelagia is a neckwear design featuring a double fish motif surrounded by a lattice of diamond and dots. Make a cowl to wear snug around the neck, or a luxuriously long scarf with a steeked fringe. Knit with Brooklyn Tweed’s incredibly soft, yet springy and warm worsted weight Imbue, this will be your go-to fall and winter accessory.
Knitting: Cardigan
Buffalo Rose Cardigan is a seamless, drop-shoulder gender-neutral cardigan with the Buffalo Rose motif prominently placed around the body: hardy, geometric buffalo check with an overlay of bold, yet delicate roses in full bloom. The rich colors, crisp sturdiness, and bloomed softness of Ritual Dyes Elder create a gorgeous, structured, and incre...
Knitting: Cowl
This pattern was originally published as Ritual Dyes’ contribution to the 2023 Rose City Yarn Crawl, February 23rd – 26th, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. This pattern is also available for download as part of the 2023 Pattern Collection: Magic.
Knitting: Pullover
Baby Buffalo Rose is the little version of the Buffalo Rose Pullover! This top-down, seamless yoke sweater for kids ages 1-12 is the second in a series featuring a colorwork motif that pairs classic buffalo plaid with an overlay of roses in full bloom, a dance between hard and soft lines, structure and flow. This motif is an homage to the parad...
Knitting: Pullover
Buffalo Rose Pullover is a top-down, seamless yoke sweater, the second in a series featuring a colorwork motif that pairs classic buffalo plaid with an overlay of roses in full bloom, a dance between hard and soft lines, structure and flow. This motif is an homage to the paradoxical interplay between old and new that is Portland, Oregon, City o...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Loyal is a lace and cabled ruana — a versatile piece that can be worn as a shawl, vest, or top! The elegant motif is meditative to knit in its simple repetition. Directions are included for side-button, center-button, and side-seaming options.
Knitting: Tee
A gem of hardy, yet delicate beauty amidst a vast rugged landscape, the city of Portland, Oregon embodies paradox, the interplay between old and new, and the humanness that exists between contrasts. Known as the City of Roses because of how beautifully the non-native rosebush first bloomed in the Willamette Valley in the 19th century, Portlan...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This elegant shawl pays homage to the striking pastel pink and green leaves of the tropical Stromanthe sanguinea plant, with detailed, tessellating colorwork and a simple garter stitch paneled edge. The merino linen blend of Isager Merilin is soft and light, with just the right drape, making this the perfect transition piece into spring!
Knitting: Cowl
All along the Oregon coast are rolling, majestic sand dunes – the artistry of our Mother Earth. The sand dunes at Cape Kiwanda in Pacific City, Oregon are especially expansive and impressive. Clamber up the soft yet powerful slopes for breathtaking views of the coastline and vast ocean, then slide and tumble playfully back down to the beach.
Knitting: Cowl
This collaboration with Portland, Oregon based Ritual Dyes and Woolfolk Yarn is an ode to home, nature, heritage, and history. Yún (雲) is the Chinese word for cloud, and this versatile cowl reflects the varied shapes, movement, and texture of the skies and clouds that blanket the Pacific Northwest, but also span across the globe to the places o...
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
The Oregon Coast is full of hidden gems, waiting to be discovered by an adventurous spirit. One such treasure is the “secret beach” at Road’s End in Lincoln City. During high tide, it is completely submerged and inaccessible by foot, but as the tide recedes, the beach is revealed, with its regal rock formations and ocean-polished stones – a bea...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Tenderwood Hat is a textured colorwork beanie with a rustic, woodsy mood. Made to compliment the Tenderwood and Kinderwood ponchos, you can make all three for a complete set!
Knitting: Poncho
Kinderwood is the kidlet version of the Tenderwood poncho! With a roomy cowlneck and arm slits, there’s plenty of room for your little one to move, play, and grow.
Knitting: Pullover
THI is a cropped, mock-neck tee with modern striped detailing on the right shoulder. Worn fitted to the body or relaxed and boxy, Thi connotes an elegant air of grace and sophistication.
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
Sunspot is the third design in KC Knitting Co’s Seasons of Cascadia pattern collection, inspired by the four distinctive seasons of the Pacific Northwest and featuring yarn dyers from Oregon and Washington.
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
Odell is the second design in KC Knitting Co’s Seasons of Cascadia pattern collection, inspired by the four distinctive seasons of the Pacific Northwest and featuring yarn dyers from Oregon and Washington. This design is named after a small town outside of Hood River, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge, where spring is a rush of blooming growth...
Knitting: Poncho
A wise friend once said to me, “The world needs more cowlneck ponchos.” Well, world! Here you go! Tenderwood is a DK/light worsted weight cowlneck poncho featuring a timeless, textured colorwork yoke incorporating both knit and purl stitches, and split front and back for ease of arm movement. A perfect transitional piece between seasons, when t...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Cowl
This DK weight cowl + hat set tells the story of a spiritual journey, starting from more solid colorwork blocks, then moving into an ascending slipped stitch motif and continuing to open into a pebbled diamond texture and finally the expansive liberation of dotted colorwork.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Motherstory is inspired by my mother’s lifelong journey. The shawl begins with just five stitches, then steadily grows. Each section is connected by gradual color-changing garter stitch rows, as the phases of life are fluid transitions, each fading into the next. The playful diamond stitch, knit with a colorful variegated yarn, illustrates the ...
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
This fingering-weight colorwork tank is knit bottom-up in the round. It separates at the armholes and the front and back are knit flat, then seamed at the shoulders. Picked-up ribbed neckband and armhole edging. The pattern is #sizeinclusive with finished bust measurements from 30-67”/76-170cm.