We’re radiating joy about this year’s crochet pattern for the Puget Sound LYS Tour, designed by Skye Greer of Emary Handmade.

This year, we’re taking our Puget Sound LYS Tour knitting pattern inspiration from last year’s summer reading. The Multidimensional Gargoyle is a minor but beloved character in the Hell’s Library series by Seattle author A.J. Hackwith - it guards the hallway outside the Unwritten Wing and, paradoxically, provides reassuring order and solidity i...

Stilly River Yarns’s knitting pattern for the 2023 Puget Sound LYS Tour

Stilly River Yarns’s 2023 Puget Sound LYS Tour crochet pattern

As I was experimenting with stitch patterns to use in the 2022 LYS Tour pattern, my family and I were on vacation in the Columbia Gorge. We stopped at Bonneville Dam, where my kids were fascinated by the fish ladder (also called a fishway) and its viewing room. I realized that the stitch pattern I was swatching - the one that appears in this pa...

This is Stilly River Yarns’ featured knitting pattern for the 2021 Puget Sound Local Yarn Shop Tour! Meredith designed this cowl after being inspired by an old bridge near her home in Pennsylvania - it was burned down during the American Civil War to prevent troop advances, and all that remains is a row of pilings marching across the river. Eac...

This stranded colorwork hat was designed as Stilly River Yarns’ knitting pattern for the 2018 Puget Sound LYS Tour. Our shop is located at the corner of 271st and 99th in Stanwood, Washington, hence the pattern name. In the spirit of the 2018 LYS Tour’s theme of “Celebrating Community,” the stranded colorwork represents Stanwood’s Scandinavian ...