A Tale of Two Cultures is a cardigan melding Estonian techniques with Turkish-inspired design. The colorwork is not your everyday stranded or intarsia. It is an Estonian in-lay technique called roosimine, which creates embroidered motifs and a unique accent to knitted fabric. Beyond the colorful images, geometric cables reminiscent of Turkish c...

Winging It is a triangular two-colour shawl incorporating the easy-to-learn mosaic technique. Unlike classic two colour stranded knitting, mosaic knitting only uses one colour at a time. It is a form of slip-stitch knitting. The shawl is knit flat, and in each row you will work with one colour and slip the remaining stitches. A tutorial with a ...

This is a two-sided stranded cowl incorporating traditional Latvian motifs. It can be worn in multiple ways, making it seem like several different cowls. This can be knit by holding multiple strands of a lace weight yarn together, or using up to a fingering weight yarn alone.

This is a build-your-own hat and mittens pattern designed to allow the knitter to express their thoughts on cancer, in their own way. Cancer affects people in different ways, and different ways at different times. You might be angry, sad, defiant, hopeful, or feel many other feelings. These designs allow you to uniquely express yourself in word...

This is an adult medium hat, and matching mittens, in worsted weight yarn that utilizes knit-purl stitches to create a textured design, using a Turkish motif. This pattern is suited to advanced beginners. The hat has been tested in worsted and light-worsted/dk weight yarns with stitch gauges of 18-20 st/4” to create adult medium hats. Adjusting...

This stranded hat and matching mitten pattern is provided in two yarn weights -- sport weight and fingering weight. The Ravelry system only allows for the choice of one yarn weight when adding patterns to the system, however, both sport weight and fingering weight charts are included. Please note that some of the charts are quite wide, and you ...

This is a hat and mittens pattern utilizing mosaic knitting techniques. It is suitable to the advanced beginner, but able to hold the interest of advanced knitters. Mosaic knitting produces complex colorwork patterns using only one strand of yarn at a time, and is easy to learn.

This is the mitten pattern entry for my Simply Harika pattern, which has been popular as a hat. I originally tried to keep the hat and mittens as one pattern, but have learnt that for the database to work properly, there needs to be a separate entry for each type of pattern. The downloadable documents for both are the same.

8/30/13. I have updated the mitten tutorial and sent an update to all previous downloaders.