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The Oregon Coast is a magical and special place; having had the pleasure of living close to it for nearly a decade, I relished exploring the beaches, driving along winding rivers that open up to the majestic view of the Pacific Ocean and experiencing the wide open sand dunes.
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This top-down crescent shaped shawl features a center lace panel, flanked by smooth side panels and finished off with a lace section that flows along the entire bottom of the shawl and wraps into the tips.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Shawlette gives an outfit just the pop of color it needs!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
If you look hard enough, beauty can be found in the most unlikely places. Imagine an abandoned building. Its windows have been broken, graffiti covers the walls and the concrete parking area in front of it is cracked. You wouldn’t think that such an area would be beautiful, but nature finds a way.
Knitting: Cowl
Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is possibly the most well-known concept in mathematics. We hold contests for people to recite this irrational number to the greatest number of digits, and as knitters we use it as a formula for creating circular shawls. We even celebrate “Pi day” on March 14th (3-14) by eating pies.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Watson Crick is a mid-calf sock with a graphic representation of DNA.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Furballs Going Nowhere is a mid calf toe up sock with add in gusset and rib in back of leg for finer fitting. Easy colour work using bright contrasting colour makes it stands out and eye catching.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Sohcahtoa socks have an unusual construction, with the seam and gusset on the underside of the foot to allow the pattern to flow uninterrupted. The toe-up design has the benefit of allowing you to work the leg as long as your yarn lasts and there are various sizing options for a perfect bespoke fit.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Maui, Hawaii brings my memories back to the time I spent with my mom on the island after I had attended a sales meeting many years ago. We spent the week exploring every inch of the island. One of my fondest memories was whale watching for the first time. I was terrified and excited at the same time, to see this enormous creature come so close ...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Lace: Intentionally putting holes in your knitting. It can be as complex as the vintage doilies that I love to knit, or as simple as a row of eyelets. This center out, rectangular stole, starts with a provisional cast on and meditative columns of eyelets surrounded by stylized leaves, with just a touch of more complex lace (and a few nupps) on ...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Viridiana is a half-oval shawl that combines the classic Pi circular construction with additional short row increases along the piece.
Knitting: Tee
This flirty, fun, reversible top features lace, raglan shaping and is worked seamlessly from the top down. Wear the lace on the front or back, show off your feminine side and let the playful ripples of leaves wash down your body. Intended to be worn with 3” of positive ease, select the size closest to your bust measurements.
Crochet: Doily
This design was born in Paris, during my wedding anniversary vacation. I was stunned by the city’s architecture and really wanted to see the famous Notre Dame cathedral, but it was after that awful fire that ravaged it. It was still possible to go and see what was left of the building from the outside, and I was really impressed by its “North R...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Originally published in Knotions Magazine, the Chartres Shawl is now available in my Ravelry store!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Plain and Fancy Shawlette is the perfect accessory for your wardrobe.
Knitting: Cowl
This lovely cowl will keep your neck warm while not being too heavy. If it’s really chilly, it can double as a hood! This can be very handy when you’re out for a walk and a breeze comes up.
Knitting: Cowl
“Fulles” is the Catalan name for “Leaves”. It’s the perfect name
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
When I was working on this design, I was imagining walking through my garden looking at leaves covered with overnight frost. The pattern contains nupps which are not to everyone’s taste. If you really don’t want to do them, you can replace them with no 6 seed beads of leave them out completely.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Knitting: Cowl
Luscious knit/purl textures mimic a wall overgrown with rippling ivy in this worsted weight cowl. Knit flat beginning with a provisional cast-on and joined with a three-needle bind off, Ivygrown is an easy, adjustable project with a few fun techniques to grow your skills. Eyelet inserts add a touch of elegance.
Knitting: Cape
Lotus Leaf Capelet and Skirt is inspired by the green lotus leaves floating on ponds, muddy swamps, and marshlands. The capelet/skirt is circular in shape with a slit that looks like a lotus leaf. The increase lines on the pattern mimic the reticulate venation of the lotus leaf.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Shade: shelter (as by foliage) from the heat and glare of sunlight.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
One of my treasured childhood possessions is an old set of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. The gentle adventures of Pooh and company were the inspiration for this story shawl.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Waldeinsamkeit = one of those untranslatable words; its definitions so wonderfully specific or complex enough that, when translated into another language, they require numerous words to express the same idea. In this case, the German word combines Wald (“wood”) and Einsamkeit (“loneliness”). Together, it literally translates to “solitude in the...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Have you ever noticed how leaves are often similar in outline to
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. ‘The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These mitts are inspired by the gorgeous sunrises and sunsets in the Nordic area. On a good day in December, it’s a beautiful play that you can watch in one sitting.
Knitting: Cowl
Fana is a reversible cowl featuring traditional sweater motifs from the Fana region of Norway. These are customarily done in stranded knitting in red or green on white, but here are worked in the Double Knitting technique, with marine blue reflecting the coastal origins of the design.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Caroline’s Skies is a long, rectangular shawl featuring scalloped edges, delicate lace and mirrored cables.
Knitting: Coaster
Daisyworld is a simulation of a hypothetical world. It is meant to mimic important elements of the Earth-Sun system.
Knitting: Cowl
In mathematics, a Möbius strip, Möbius band, or Möbius loop is a surface that can be formed by attaching the ends of a strip of paper together with a half-twist. As a mathematical object, it was discovered by Johann Benedict Listing and August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858, but it had already appeared in Roman mosaics from the third century CE.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
A long narrow asymmetrical shawl with a fern-like border on the top edge and a lace edging.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Havoc is an all-over cabled asymmetric triangular shawl, inspired, if that is the right word, by the aftermath of Storm Arwen. Trees were uprooted or just snapped like matchsticks with trunks and branches lying bent and broken across all of the three roads from our valley to the outside world.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Like many people, I adore hand painted yarns, and like many others, I adore large, intricate lace shawls. But it always leaves me singing the blues that so often those two loves just do not work well together. This top-down semi-circle shawl, in four “sizes”, starts with bold petals that give way to an allover, simple lace background that is no...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Hats are a great quick-knit – either for yourself or as a gift.
Knitting: Hats - Other
Let’s keep your head and shoulders warm with this classy accessory.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Aer Beanie takes its name from the Irish word for ‘Air’, and uses simple 1/1 cables to create air bubbles that rise from the twisted ribbing to the crown decreases of the hat. At first these bubbles are regular, but as they rise (and as you work further on the hat) they become free-floating – so you can add them randomly as you choose. Each...
Knitting: Cowl
In Norse cosmology, all beings live in the Nine Worlds that center around the cosmological tree Yggdrasil.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The colour sections on these socks form staircases that go up and down and all around.
Knitting: Cowl
This colorful cowl is knit with tonal DK yarn, using fisherman’s rib to border an allover mosaic stitch pattern in contrasting colors. Knit seamlessly in the round, it is a relaxing, but intriguing cowl to knit. Inspired by the Hawthorn tree, sacred in Gaelic mythology and lore, the motif of hawthorn leaves and berries is created using a mosaic...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These fun socks, inspired by those grand staircases you see in classic cruise liners, are perfect to use up your partial skeins or as an excuse to buy two more.
Knitting: Poncho
A mix of elaborated Estonian lace and simple mesh combined with a variegated hand-dyed yarn will bring this lively seamless cape to become a must for your spring through summer outfits.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Heliantheae is the third largest tribe in the sunflower family, with the name derived from the genus Helianthus, which is Greek for Sunflower. Each “flower” of a sunflower is actually a disc made up of many flowers, tiny disc florets in the center and ray florets on the outside. While the majority of sunflowers are typically yellow and produce ...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. During our everyday lives we can observe four of them: solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Aran + Fibonacci = Aranacci! The Aranacci Shawl is an easy-to-knit, reversible, (slightly asymmetric) triangular shawl; with a hugs-and-kisses cable running along one edge, and plenty of relaxing garter stitch in the main body of the shawl. Increases are worked using simple yarnovers, which create both an inner border of eyelets, and a decorati...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This stranded hat was inspired by the colorway Apollo, and NASA’s space shuttle program of the same name, that landed the first humans on the Moon. I am fascinated with the Universe and brought concepts like The Big Bang and Black Holes into the motifs on this hat.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Sometimes I fall in love with the colors of a yarn in the skein and I feel compelled to create just the perfect pattern to show it off. This was one of those times. Slippery Slope evolved from my desire to see the long color changes in a skein that particularly spoke to me do its thing against a velvety soft, all-but-solid background.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This intricate triangular Mosaic shawl features a traditional Japanese design pattern called Sayagata, often used on a kimono fabric and as sashiko motifs. The interlocking diagonal lines illustrate an auspicious design that symbolizes prosperity and longevity.
Knitting: Scarf
The Ogham scarf is inspired by the old Celtic hieroglyphic language of Ogham (pronounced Oam or Ome) - the earliest known form of written language in Ireland. It was originally carved onto the corners of standing stone pillars, many of which can still be seen today in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The carved letters are read from bottom to top. ...
Knitting: Cowl
This one-size piece is first worked top down in the round and then flat, in 1 and 2 color brioche stitch.
Knitting: Pullover
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Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
This title came from the opening lines of the national anthem of my island home, “Sarnia Cherie, gem of the sea” On a lovely summers day, the sea shines like it is made of diamonds, so I married together diamond gansey patterns with baby cables as a nod to our maritime heritage.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Windswept moors, passion, loss, revenge, and the odd ghost or two: that’s more than enough inspiration for a shawl. This shawl is a tribute to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
Knitting: Ankle Sock
The liminal space of Aran shoreland, neither completely of land nor sea, has inspired creatives for generations. Poets like Seamus Heaney have looked on the shore and meditated on the mutable nature of reality. Native knitters, meanwhile, have developed a craft that tries to safeguard their folk against the fickle moods of wind and weather as t...
Knitting: Knee-highs
This sock is inspired by the Gansey sweater, a sweater design typical for Irish (and Finnish too!) fishermen. It is said that the pattern on the sweater was unique to its wearer so that in the
Crochet: Skirt
Every time the weather starts cooling off, I find myself wishing for a warm wool skirt to wear over my leggings. This year, I decided to design one myself using my favorite color-changing method: the drop & swap. Swirled is the perfect skirt for a warm and comforting hug when the air turns chilly. The ribbing, worked on the bias, falls into...
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This fall, envelop yourself in a rainbow and hold on to that summer cheer just a little longer. Autumn Sunset is a long rectangular wrap, worked using a solid color and a gradient, to create gorgeous shifting color changes all throughout. The open stitch pattern makes this shawl not too warm, but the superwash wool makes it just warm enough. Ad...
Crochet: Throw
Take Cover is just the snuggly lapghan you’ve been looking for. Crocheted in bulky yarn, this soft, warm blanket is the perfect size for two laps, so you can enjoy it with your significant other, your best friend, or anyone you want to spend some time with. From reading, to watching TV, to enjoying some hot cocoa, Take Cover has you and yours…....
Knitting: Slippers
This tile design is from my paternal great grand-aunt’s pattern note book. She was a single woman living in the city and worked as a caretaker for the elderly. These kind of flower patterns are typically used on mittens in Nordic countries.
Crochet: Ball
Dating from Classical Roman times, bocce is a sort of modified bowling game where players aim small weighted balls toward a smaller target ball, the pallino. Teams alternate turns attempting to place these heavy wood balls closest to the pallino from a short distance away.This crocheted set softens the game, making it safe to share with the who...
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
Paris Street; Rainy Day the Impressionist painting by Gustave Caillebotte was the inspiration for the design.
Knitting: Cowl, Fingerless Gloves
When people talk about impressionist painters, we tend to think of the 19th century movement, characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition and emphasis on accurate depiction of light.
Knitting: Knee-highs
Whether it’s a burning ring of fire or hot coals, these are the socks you want to be wearing to get you through.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Inspired by old fashioned doilies and the notebooks of early naturalists; with their hastily, yet meticulously detailed drawings, this top down ¾ circle shawl, hugs your shoulders without the need for a shawl pin.
Crochet: Ankle Sock
Pattern originally published in Knotions Magazine June 2021
Knitting: Ankle Sock
Frost flowers and snowflakes, probably the prettiest things of winter.
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This is a triangular shawl made from triangular motifs in two colors.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
When I saw the brief for this month my first thought was Shetland lace. Most Shetland lace is knitted on a garter stitch base and there as so many pretty patterns to choose from.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
My inspiration for Serenity of Sage comes from the peaceful hiking trails of Daley Ranch near my home, the Sage trail being one of my favorites. It’s a new day and the sun has just come up and the morning air is cool. Meditative sounds of putting one foot in front of the other as I walk the uneven trail. Watching the long grass sway in the cool...
Crochet: Fingerless Gloves
There are days during the Spring where the sun is shining, but the wind has a cold bite. The dark colors and heavy pieces that I’ve worn all winter don’t appeal anymore. Time for something new, lacy and fun worked in lighter, brighter colors!
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These mitts were inspired by some matching mini-skeins of gradient yarn. I wanted to be able to knit them from the top-down to really take advantage of the whole gradient. I couldn’t find any top-down mitts, so I created my own. The buttons are just for fun.
Crochet: Wall Hanging
INTRODUCTIONThe Chain Link Banner is an investigation into combining the free-spirited nature of the Bohme with the rigidity and structure of traditional crochet design. The individual panels mimic the shapework of boho macrame, the proposed fringe or tassels ableto be selected individually by each maker evoke a free-spirited vibe so prominent ...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Knitting: Cowl
Do you love miniskeins? So do I! I’m not always sure what to do with them though, so I designed this cowl and used all but a few yards of a sensational miniskein pack.
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl pattern is a little less straight forward, but a lot of fun.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
A crescent shaped shawl knitted from the top down. This shawl was inspired by the striped marquees that you see at country fairs and fetes, Make it in one color, use left over bits from other projects or choose two special skeins from your stash to make this project yours.
Crochet: Fingerless Gloves
Springtime in the Rockies can be very chilly indeed, so when we returned earlier than usual to our summer home to shelter in place during the pandemic, I knew I needed another pair of mitts to keep my hands warm. Opting for a quick crochet project and working a series of simple stitches, these fun mitts came about. Instead of seaming, I decided...
Knitting: Scarf
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Knitting: Cowl
This cowl was inspired by the warmth that fire provides to us. The deep red and warm orange represent the best of fire and the impact it had on the development of humankind. The harsh contrast of the texture in the stripe pattern also functions as a reminder of the devastation fire brings to communities around the world when it is out of control.
Knitting: Cowl
Originally intended to celebrate the end of the year, Budloe Night was a pagan festival here on the island of Guernsey where a Yule log would be burnt, using fire as an act of cleansing in preparation for the new year. The connection to the Vikings stems from the island’s association with Normandy, which was of course conquered and populated by...
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Originally intended to celebrate the end of the year, Budloe Night was a pagan festival here on the island of Guernsey where a Yule log would be burnt, using fire as an act of cleansing in preparation for the new year. The connection to the Vikings stems from the island’s association with Normandy, which was of course conquered and populated by...
Crochet: Fingerless Gloves
First off: This is a Tunisian crochet pattern and requires a Tunisian hook with a cable to complete.
Knitting: Cowl
I find myself mesmerized when I look at the brilliant colors of the flickering flames of a fire. The Incendio Cowl was inspired by fire and my love of Harry Potter. The lace stitch pattern I chose for the body of the Incendio Cowl reminds me of the Incendio charm that was used to conjure a jet of flames to set things alight. I can still see Her...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Valley of Fire shawl is a top-down, crescent shaped shawl with a center lace panel that flows down and out along the shawl’s bottom edge. You’ll finish by knitting each individual flame tip separately.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This two-colored wrap is inspired by flames. The two sides are intertwined within a central cable, surrounded by bramble stitch. The edges are defined by cables on each side. The wrap is knit flat, using a simple intarsia technique for the two colors.
Knitting: Mittens
These mitts cover the whole hand, with a ribbed cuff and an afterthought thumb. They are knitted in the round using DK weight yarn, with the double thickness of the stranded fabric making them extra warm. The single size stretches well to fit hands sized 6-8” diameter, and the pattern repeats are large. There are two cuff options, and the mitts...
Knitting: Scarf
Cables serve as the framework for a suspended lace mesh traveling down the length of this innovative accessory. Combining simple, easily-worked elements into something entirely new, the scarf is inspired by Tudor-style windows, in which many small panes of glass are held together by strips of metal. Soft, blockable alpaca yarn lends both drape ...
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These romantic mitts were inspired by Medieval windows, doorways, and tracery. Despite their ornate appearance, they are practical too. They have long cuffs to fit under your coats or sweaters and a thumb gusset to allow greater freedom of movement. The dramatic front is mainly accomplished through increases and decreases, with just a few color...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Wall Hanging
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This simple rectangular wrap is inspired by the beauty and geometry of windows in the Mediterranean with their eye-catching curved shapes. These windows are portals to the outdoors.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Every path crossing is a portal to a different place in the universe!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Back in the early 80’s I married the love of my life and we jetted off on honeymoon to Tunisia.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
I love mini-skeins and tend to buy them because they are pretty but they just sit my stash! I look for patterns that use them but I might have too many colors in the set or the yardage is not enough. I wanted to design a shawl that could use any mini-skein set no matter the number of skeins or yardage! Jellybean Row uses a mini-skein set and on...
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
I found this yarn and this indie dyer, Birdie’s Knits at the very first Stitches United in Hartford, CT several years ago. I was so excited – I’d never met a hand-dyer who worked in anything other than wool. Being highly allergic to sheep, wool is not an option for me. This colorway reminded me of 4th of July parades with my grandparents and gr...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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The Madame Galen Wrap is a simply shaped wrap with lots of texture to keep it interesting. A variety of slipped stitch patterns are used that evoke thoughts of a garden, along with Latvian braids and an applied
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit in 3 colors, this lovely, lightweight scarf is perfect for warm and cool weather. Just a hint of beads adds a tiny bit of glamor and a little weight to the hem.. It could easily be made wider by adding repeats of the diamond lace motif or by knitting it in a fingering weight. Note: if you use a fingering weight, you will need to use 6/0 be...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Crochet: Scarf
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Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl is worked top-down and forms a shallow triangle. Stitches are increased symmetrically on both sides of the center. The pattern is beginner friendly and will fly off the hooks. The yarn used is DK weight Vilasa Silk yarn 200 gms. The shawl measures 65” wingspan and 25” deep. It will be the perfect accessory for summer!
Knitting: Cowl
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
Spring is my favorite time of year. It’s a time for starting over with new growth; the dreary days of winter are gone and the blossoms are blooming. This delicate shawl is worked in spring colors from the top down to the edging with fingering weight yarn.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
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Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
A simple rectangle shawl is transformed into a flowing wrap cinched at the neck with densely gathered ruffles. It’s versatile and it’s both a wrap and outerwear!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Pairing a variegated or speckled yarn with a solid for this pattern, let them work together to create a unique and cozy pattern. Starting from the outside, you create 2 shallow triangles which then are connected with a diamond shape & finished off with some short-rows, creating a beautiful, unique shape which stays well on your shoulders, d...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
What happens when you challenge shawl designers to “boldly go where no designer has gone before” and create an unusually shaped shawl together?
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
A beautiful lace pi shawl with a unique stitch pattern based on a secret code for the word “Knotions” and a knit-on border.
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
I’m a geek at heart and love working the Fibonacci sequence into my patterns. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two preceding numbers. While people recognize it as a mathematical principle, the numbers also appear in nature, for example, in arrangements of leaves on a stem, a pineapple’s fruit sprouts, and pine cone bracts. The prog...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
In many a knitter’s stash is that special skein of yarn—the one picked up as souvenir yarn during a great vacation, that special hand-dyed yarn from an indie dyer or even your own handspun—that you want to use every last scrap of. But your pattern search finds you patterns that require much more or less yardage than you have!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
I grew up and spent my childhood in a small village with a river running through it. The river had many rapids and we were always told to be careful of the streams. I learned to fear the small whirls in the water and then as I grew older to respect them and see the absolute beauty of them. Many times have I sat by the river just staring at and ...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Hexbin is a top-down, unisex sock pattern featuring stranded colorwork. It is a fun, geometric design that leaves a lot of room for experimentation with color and pattern. It is also a great stash-busting project for those self-striping, gradient or tonal colorways that can be difficult to do justice to.
Knitting: Poncho
Our DNA is a top-down capelet worked in the round with raglan in reverse stockinette. From the end of the ribbing to the bottom, an intricate work of cable depicting a full section of double stranded DNA is carried over the heart with a DNA replication cable on the back.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Serial Digital Communication channels are all around us – Ethernet, WiFi, and USB are just a few of them. If you look at one of these channels on an oscilloscope, you’ll see images called “eye patterns”.
Knitting: Scarf, Cowl
The two strands of a DNA molecule, twisted into a double helix, were the inspiration behind the lines of cable stitches that travel across this scarf. This design is all about sophisticated combinations – a light and a dark color, brioche and garter stitch, two different textures. Just like genetic recombination reshuffles the genetic material ...
Crochet: Scarf
Who says math can’t be fun?! I’m a geek at heart and love using nerdy numbers as inspiration for my designs.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Fractal: In mathematics, a fractal is a subset of Euclidean space for which…did your eyes glaze over there? Fractal: In the real world, fractals are all around us. They are found in nature, geometry and algebra, and we are using them in new and surprising ways to develop better medicine and technology.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Golden Ratio is a place where art meets math. We find the golden ratio when we divide a line into two parts so that the whole length divided by the long part is also equal to the long part divided by the short part. This ratio is usually rounded to 1:1.618.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Ar Lan y Môr (Welsh for ‘by the seaside’) Socks were inspired by the ripples of seaweed and other water plants that grow just below the waterline of many lakes, rivers and seas around the world, as well as the imagery of the Welsh folk song of the same name – flowers and grasses rippling beside the sea.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Tulips in the Snow is designed to give you a pop of color in the middle of winter, in anticipation of spring. The instep has an overall floral texture stitch, while the back features a Tulip lace motif beginning at the base of the heel and continuing up the leg. When spring arrives, show off the Tulip design while wearing your clogs.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
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Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks are unisex - they work for both men and women!
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Our island language is all but dead, but is a form of Norman French and is very close to Cornish, Breton and according to my Great Uncle even Sicilian! It’s highly possible as it has it’s roots in Latin along with many languages. There are steps being taken to try and save the language, but currently only 2% of the population speak he language ...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This hat is a slightly-slouchy beanie worked in a Lace design with twisted stitches to show off the beautiful color variegation of the yarn. Worked in the round from the bottom up, the hat will fit a range of head sizes because of the lace and ribbing design.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These elegant lace mitts, worked in the round from the fingers to the wrist, come in two sizes and are easy to adjust in length. Make them your own: choose your favorite yarn and color and treat yourself to an accessory that doesn’t need to be reserved for special occasions!
Knitting: Scarf
Inspired by rippling waters and piers, Harbor View combines classic and modern elements to make a design that is interesting to knit and to wear. Best of all, it is even reversible! One side features an asymmetric cabled pattern combined with columns of stockinette. The reverse is a more simple, but interesting ribbed pattern.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
I love the perfect imperfection of a cobbled street. The stones are lined up to form rows or geometric shapes that charm me and invoke a sense of a simpler past. When walking a cobbled street I can imagine I live in a time so much more grounded than the helter-skelter days that seem to fly by more and more quickly each year. There is something ...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
“The Snow is sparkling like a million little suns” – Lama Willa Miller
Knitting: Cowl
A lacy, feminine cowl with just a few beads in a gorgeous yarn, perfect for spring and much easier to work than it looks!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
It was in the middle of the coldest, darkest winter in Finland, the polar night; I was cold and needed
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Varna, ‘color’ in Sanskrit, is a celebration of variegated yarn with long repeats. Paired with a neutral, solid colored yarn, the shawl lets the variegated yarn be the hero, while the solid yarn remains the unsung one.
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl is a combination of some of my favorite techniques:
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Named for the Japanese form of the Morning Glory, this wrap is all about the twining cables and twisted stitches that work their way from end to end.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Still available from Knotions in charted only format, now available through Ravelry with line by line written instructions.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
When I asked one of my best friends (“kindred spirits”) to describe her ideal hat, she envisioned this super soft, lightweight, slouchy hat with a Celtic-inspired cable pattern. I created it for her, and loved it so much that I knit up a matching one for myself! Recently, when another best friend was in need of a hat, I made this one for her as...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Shellrock pass is located deep in the Pasayten Wilderness. A couple of autumns ago, we camped in the basin below it for an entire week, summiting the peaks around it. The day we crossed over Shellrock pass, it snowed several inches overnight, leaving the trail slippery, the rocks icy, and the golden larch trees covered in a white blanket. It wa...
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Imagine a beautiful lady wearing gauntlets on her ride to the lake: her name is Melusina, and she is the wife of a noble chevalier, who had to promise before their marriage that he would never follow her on these weekly excursions.
Knitting: Scarf, Cowl
This scarf was inspired by the poem ‘To Autumn’ by Keats. The yarn over patterning symbolizes the fruitfulness of the season and the surrounding cables are a reminder that it is also the season that marks the start of the darker winter days that need a warm scarf to wrap up in.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Spare me the Damsels in Distress. Give me a tough woman like Aethelflaed of Mercia, who was brave enough to fight the Vikings AND win!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Starting with a stretchy cast on and worked in the round, this hat features some simple cables that remind me of the wrought iron gate at the side of a park near home.
Knitting: Cowl
This chunky aquamarine blue infinity cowl is hand knit with beautifully intersecting Celtic cables. It is soft and squishy and super warm, perfect for bundling up with style on warm winter days.
Knitting: Cowl
The design on this cowl is inspired by the style of art known as Insular, or Hiberno-Saxon. Knotwork decoration is a major feature of this style, and it has terrific visual interest when knitted up using the mosaic technique. The technique itself requires only very basic knitting skills - mosaic knitting makes colorwork easy! The garter stitch ...
Crochet: Cowl
Fall is a time for warmth, for a hug, for family. The Wild Berry Delight was inspired by all the lovely berries that one finds; blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, cranberries, that pack so much in such tiny morsels. This cowl, I hope, will pack in a similar love and warmth whenever you sport it.
Knitting: Cowl
Featuring intricate diamond cables, this cozy textured cowl fits snugly over the neck and shoulders, making it a fabulous accessory in cold weather.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This giant shawl is both fun to make and awesome to wear!
Crochet: Pullover
This project originally started off as a sweater for my daughter. I wanted to mix cables with little popcorns and ended up with the design ‘Cable Pop.’ I sent her off to school in her new digs and her preschool teacher saw it and exclaimed, “That is so cute. I would actually wear that for myself!”
Knitting: Pullover
Originally published in Knotions September 2019, the Liana Pullover is an elbow-length sleeve pullover sweater featuring a front pocket out of which a vining cable creeps up towards the neckline. It is a classic raglan-style sweater with a faux button placket at one shoulder. Have fun with your button choices to express wearer individuality! Fo...
Knitting: Pullover
Folium is a close-fitting pullover with waist shaping, set-in sleeve construction, a cozy turtleneck, and a lace pattern on the center front and back, this sweater works up quickly, is delightfully soft and is perfect for lounging by the fireside on brisk fall and winter afternoons. The gauge is large enough that it will work up quickly and you...
Knitting: Purse / Handbag
Have you ever bought a skein of yarn because it was the last one there? Or because it was the last of its color? Or because it was so interesting in the store, but then you had no idea what to do with it? This pattern, named after the Arabic word for stratify, is a great way to use one of those in the last category. I picked up this novelty yar...
Crochet: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl takes the form of a large wrap whose edges overlap the main body of the garment, such that the shawl can be worn as-is without the struggle of wrapping a flat garment. The flouncy ruffles happen naturally in the pattern!
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Living in the Midwestern United States, you would think that during the hot summer months I would be putting my hand-knits away and forgetting about them until the fall chill starts to hit the air. But you would be wrong! There always seems to be an overly climate-controlled space where I need a little something. While a light-weight shawl can ...
Knitting: Scarf
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend! Diamonds represent all those qualities in a woman that make her special and strong. But most of all, diamonds on a woman are a sign that she is loved, cherished and eternalized, because the diamonds she once wore will live forever long after she’s gone.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Berry Shawl was inspired by hot summers and the lush berries with ice cream that have their season in summer. The little pops of raspberries, the marbling of a good ice cream, all knitted into a lovely shawl with lace and colorful stripes.
Knitting: Scarf
Tulips are beautiful reminders of spring and summer. Nothing symbolizes these seasons better than the budding, blooming flowers.
Knitting: Scarf
The Skellig Islands are two steep, rocky islands about 8 miles off the coast of Ireland. The boat ride through the mist to Skellig Michael inspired this scarf pattern.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This easy stockinette and garter triangle shawl takes the neutrals of winter and gives you a canvas for colorful spring embroidery. Watch your own pretty little garden grow as you sew graduated plant motifs in up to 6 colors onto the simple knitted background.
