A friend was talking about how much she loved Nordic styled stocking caps for skiing, and we started working on a design. The process brought back so many memories of sledding downhill in wild abandon with the tails of our stocking caps waving in the wind, that this hat named itself!

Around the world, anywhere there is a deep and dark forest, there is the lore of Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Yeti. We all want to believe! This fun stranded knitting pattern has a maximum of two colors per row and includes two basic color charts (one for the body and one for the crown).

This graceful triangular lace shawl includes a distinctive looped I-Cord edging that flows from the lace design. The pattern knits down and outward from the top with center and edge increases.

This cabled hat has a slight slouch. The cabled pattern utilizes a seeded (knit and purl stitched) center for added texture. The pattern is worked smoothly into the decreases for the crown shaping for a clean finish.

This stranded knit hat was created for Fair Isle and color selection workshops at a local fiber festival. The pattern includes three variations on the same design:

This stranded knit beanie was inspired by a creativity prompt in a knitting class. One of the prompts was a picture of printed text. I was in the middle of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Dancing in the Streets: a History of Collective Joy, fell in love with the concept of “communitas” (the spirit of community) and went with it. These figures danced from ...

I live upriver from a beautiful bend in the Columbia River that inspired the neckline for this sweater. This sweater is knitted from bottom up and in the round until the neckline. The eyelet mock cable stitch around the neck, sleeves and bottom gives the illusion of cables with more knitting ease. The neckline is finished with an I-cord cast-of...

The name “snake doctor” comes from a folk belief in the southern United States that dragonflies stitch injured snakes back together. This stranded design uses a combination of colors that can frequently be found in our yarn stashes.

Easy color stranded hat textured with bobbles and purl stitches.

I recently started The Knitting Guild Association Master Hand Knitting Certification, and as part of the research for the program discovered the story of the Bohus Stickning Swedish knitting cooperative. This hat was inspired by this historical style and also includes the current craze for bobbles. Enjoy!

For my husband’s first retirement adventure, we purchased a 1986 Mercedes German firehall van that we call Gerta/Goethe and dove into a crazy, but rewarding campervan conversion project.

This design was inspired by the stunning Pendleton designs surrounding us in the Pacific Northwest. The felting creates the perfect wool blanket look and softens the geometric design (charted).

This pattern started as a tribute to living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I shared the color chart with my friends and they added their ideas. They challenged me to squeeze it all in and I did!

After making an earlier version of this hat countless times for two different shops, I tinkered with the pattern until I felt I had it just right and am reissuing the improved version.

The single four-strand cable running down one side of this hat was inspired by my favorite waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge, Falls Creek Falls.

This pattern was motivated by some gorgeous Manos del Uruguay Marina lace yarn that was bought for an intricate shawl pattern. I sadly discovered my aging eyes couldn’t endure the fine detail and needed to find another use.

This scarf pattern was inspired by a wonderful accident. When experimenting with a single flower variation of the “Knitted Flowers in a Row” stitch, I forgot to purl the bottom edge and ended up with a perfect bouquet of flowers.

It’s hard to live next to the mighty Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest without wanting to weave its flow into every creation.

This hat was inspired by living in the Pacific Northwest. The owls are nested between dense undergrowth and tall stands of rough-barked Douglas Firs.