Mona Schmidt
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads
Knitting: Pullover
Knitting with Feederbrook Entropy DK is almost like painting with yarn, especially when combining several colourways and a simple knit/purl pattern that produces a fabric reminiscent of impressionism or pointilissm – both painting styles that I love. Choose three skeins of Entropy DK in different colours and start making your own artwork!
Knitting: Pullover
Enter Entropy is a top-down yoke sweater that emphasizes the beauty of the slowly changing colours of Feederbrook Entropy DK, a 100% Blue Faced Leicester yarn which is locally milled in Baltimore County, Maryland and works beautifully with De Rerum Natura Ulysse.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Équerre is a reversible garter stitch shawl that is worked sideways. At the beginning of the ‘shelter at home’ order, I did not find the usual consolation in my knitting. Nothing would do, every time I picked up a project, I would put it down after a few rows because it did not provide the solace I was looking for - until I started working on t...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Twisted slipped stitches that wander around the hat like a helix make for a textural pattern that stands out in any yarn. The hat comes in several versions, pick the one you are most comfortable with: Tuque, Beanie or Slouch. the Tuque also transforms into a Slouch with a deep rib when the brim is unfolded.
Knitting: Mittens
Four-in-Four is another name for Houndstooth – as the pattern repeat is worked across four stitches and four rows it seemed a good fit.
Knitting: Mittens
When the cold hits and you just need that extra layer in your mittens to keep your hands warm and toasty!
Knitting: Cowl
The Hounds of Winter – as in the song by Sting – have been haunting me. At this time of year (mid-February) I am usually quite tired of the cold, the snow and the general bleakness of the season.
Knitting: Cowl
One skein of scrumptious Tanis Fiber Arts Orange Label can go far and feels wonderfully soft. Use the buttons to wear your cowl in multiple ways – however you please. Best of all: no sewing or grafting involved! Also, the knit/purl pattern is reversible, that means you can wear your cowl inside out and no-one will know…
Knitting: Earflap Hat
Pattern for the hat is available in three sizes now - 16”, 18.25” and 20.5”. This covers toddlers to adults.
Knitting: Coat / Jacket, Cardigan
A cute cardigan with a leaf pattern edge that knits up real quick!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
“Where the rushes grow on the edge of the water” - that’s how the Natives named the place in Québec, famous for the novel of the same name by Anne Hébert and even now called one of the most beautiful villages in the province.