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Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Technically seamless, and designed to be reversible, the Wilhelm hat is an interesting project that’s knit mostly flat.
Knitting: Cowl
This is a convertible, versatile version of the Flippy Chevron Cowl!
Knitting: Cowl
This is a nice weird little cowl to match the Flippy Chevron Hat.
Knitting: Pixie Hat
I haven’t done a silly hat in a while, so here’s a silly hat! The name might be going too far. I’m not sure I can explain why it seems flippy to me. I am very, very sleep-deprived at this point.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
(if you’re on the Patreon, use code “kitchen” to get a free .PDF copy! This applies for all supporting members.)
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This rectangular wrap (or scarf) features fully reversible fabric, and combines eyelet panels with a center section of light ribbing. While the combination of stitch patterns and the nature of the lace require some attention, this is an efficient design that’s been boiled down to one simple repeat for the main pattern.
Knitting: Cowl
Sidequest Shawl builds on the reversible ribbing pattern from the Scribble Shawl to make a lace-free reversible bias-knit triangle. Work begins with a small cast-on edge, and increases, so you can pretty much knit this to any dimensions you like, provided you have adequate yarn on hand.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Scibble Shawl is a bias-knit triangle in reversible lace mesh with a strong ribbing appearance. It’s summery and light, and optional buttons give it plenty of creative wearing potential—make it into a coverup or wear it as a wrap.
Knitting: Shrug / Bolero
Use scraps to knit this midweight shrug for a truly unique finished piece! Saturn Sleeves are knit from the cuff up to make a sort of hybrid shrug/sleeves/cropped cardigan.
Knitting: Scarf
Thresher is a long, slightly thin triangle scarf, featuring mesh lace motifs! Bold textured eyelets offset long stretches of comfort-knit garter stitch, and in my opinion the wrong side of this fabric looks better than the public side—the stacked slipped stitches are enchanting.
Knitting: Pillow / Cushion
This is a very basic pillowslip for a square 13”/33cm pillow, intended to show off self-striping yarns or textured handspun, or make good use of vibrant scraps.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
Thanks for checking out the Ravelry page for the Swatchcloths I pattern!. This pattern is also included in the June Patreon offerings.
Knitting: Cowl
I’ve done a lot of bandana cowls lately, but this one is knit in an entirelydifferent way. It’s knit both in the round and flat, and incorporates a couple of different shawl techniques in its unorthodox construction—how could I resist that?
Knitting: Containers
Seed Pod is a wonderful opportunity to put buttons on things. It’s also a round version of Project Pod that doesn’t require a hook or a cabrabiner; it uses a large button (1.5-2”) instead.
Knitting: Containers
Knit the Project Pod for a DIY yarn-bowl style vessel, or use it as a container for other household goods—I use one of these to hold clothespins, for some reason, and find the carabiner makes it really useful for this. If you do use it as a project pod, balls of yarn stay safe, clean, and warm inside the pod instead of rolling around, while the...
Knitting: Cowl
Although this project starts in a similar center-out way, we’re going a little longer with this one to ideally add a bit to its function and versatility.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit a garter stitch triangle shawl with an angular twist! Not a literal twist though. Just a different approach to building on itself.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit a mitered-square colorblock shawl in a unique way! Use sportweight to DK yarn in 2-3 colors—or scraps—for a satisfying quick knit that shows off the interesting construction.
Knitting: Cowl
Knit a pretty quick bandana cowl from worsted-weight yarn! Textured stitches make a simple project more interesting, and soft wool makes it a pleasure to knit and wear. Many knitters will find this to be a weekend project, or close.
Knitting: Scarf
Spring Feverish 2024: Project II: Patch Bandana!
Knitting: Scarf
Spring Feverish 2024 I: Logos is a square kerchief modeled after a versatile bandana, and you can really apply your own creativity here. Wear it as a straightforward bandana or kerchief, use detachable toggle buttons to shape it into a mini-shawl or cowl, or even modify it into a shrug. (This will work as shown on a petite frame; add just one m...
Knitting: Scarf
Use this pattern to give your next any-gauge garter-stitch-like scarf project an undulating, understated wave! The subtle effect lends itself well to random scraps, which is what’s used for the sample swatch shown here, or self-striping yarns.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
IDES of MARCH! is a half-circle shawl featuring eyelet increases, textured pattern repeats, and, as a project, a quick pace when you knit it in sport/DK weight yarn as shown.
Knitting: Scarf
This chevron scarf combines a chevron stitch motif with ribbing for the best of both! The fabric is reversible but different on either side. The pattern lends itself well to scrap yarns or self-striping skeins, and would also look great in handspun yarn.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit a big wrap with garter stitch chevrons and an understated ribbing pattern!
Knitting: Cowl
Defoliated Leaf Cowl is a hooded cowl without the leaf-shaped front! It ended up being quite a bit different to Leaf Cowl, despite focusing on the same design approach. I’d planned to just remove the leaf, obviously, but now—
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Check out the matching Rock Salt Beanie too! If you want to!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Knit the Rock Salt beanie all flat with no seaming, using just one circular needle! This hat is both unique and interesting to knit, and fairly traditional—you can block it into a roundish crown shape or block it to emphasize the squarishness of it for a cat-ears effect.
Knitting: Cowl
Knit a Patch Cowl II! Patch Cowl II is a thick, cozy neckwarmer, with a neat little tweak in the form of an inset contrasting patch. (I used heavier yarn for the patch, but you don’t have to—it’s not an important element.)
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Knit the Ridge Road beanie for a reversible, minimalist hat! All the sections are easy knitting in the round, the crown is a classic circular shape instead of the crisp square I often go for, and you can choose to wear the final product plain or ridge-side out.
Knitting: Cowl
Pathos is a cozy, generously-sized cowl based on the Retort shawl! It’s a big, capelet-like knit with nice textural details. Knit in sockweight yarn at a light gauge, it’s the opposite of a quick, forgettable knitting project in many ways, but more satisfying for that reason. .
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit a textured mini-shawl from the top down! This simple triangle can be knit up in one skein of Malabrigo Yarn Sock or a similar soft yarn, but it’s designed around a repeating pattern that makes it easy to make your shawl larger (or even more officially kerchief-sized).
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit a textured kerchief, or customize your own shawl! This simple triangle can be knit up in your own sportweight handspun for a result like the sample, or made with one skein of Malabrigo Yarn Arroyo or a similar soft sport-ish weight substitution.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This pattern was supposed to be called something else, something very obvious, and I was so overworked at the time that I completely forgot about the Plan and just groped for a piece of the phonetic alphabet I hadn’t used yet. So! It may change up soon, but it will be the same shawl.
Knitting: Cowl
Oskar is a satisfying blocky neckwarmer cowl knit from combined shapes! As a project, it combines familiar techniques and cozy garter stitch in unexpected and engaging ways. As a finished object, it’s a great little tube-style cowl, and makes an excellent gift or an addition to your handmade wardrobe.
Knitting: Cowl
One last triangle-cowl experiment, for now! Tango Cowl is a satisfying combination of several different shawl-shaping techniques and approaches. It’s a great little project for soft self-striping sockweight yarn, or use scraps and commemorate your all your larger/shawl projects in this versatile neckwarmer.
Knitting: Cowl
Leaf Hooded Cowl is sort of a leaf-looking hooded cowl! It’s a dk/worsted version of the Echo kerchief—or at least a version of the same concept, since it’s not a faithful recreation at a different gauge. It uses a slightly different set of shapes to create a hooded version of a cowl with a leaf-like/kerchief element.
Knitting: Cowl
Echo is a lightweight, oversized kerchief cowl with a triangle point! Yarn choices are everything here; go green or choose an autumnal yellow, gold, or rust for an leaf-like look, use rustic natural soft wool yarn for an elfin look without the miniature aspect, or go for something sleek and futuristic.
Knitting: Cowl
You Raised a Vampire! is a a triangle-shawl-based cowl with plenty of interesting construction aspects. It combines blocky triangle shapes and subtle 2-color stripes to get you ready for the upcoming fall season. And the sides/sections of the cowl are different enough to give it a little bit of a chameleon aspect—lizard fashion?—in that the loo...
Knitting: Cardigan
Emergency Shawlero! is a modular knitting project designed with shawl-knitting enthusiasts in mind. Easy comfort knitting combines with unique shaping to result in a warm little jacket with wide sleeve openings.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Tentative is intended as a comfort-knit—a familiar top-down triangle with textured stitch motifs. Block pattern repeats pair well with the constraints of the shawl’s construction, and while the finished shawl is generously sized in dk/worsted yarn, it’s easy to add an extra repeat (or leave one out) to make a customized piece.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit Kitchenette in two colors—a solid main color and a gradient contrast color—for an easy triangle-shawl knit with interesting stripes! The stripes will highlight the changes in the yarn colors, unless you are like me and use a gradient main color, too, in which case you risk really messing up your one sample because the whole first repeat ha...
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
Wednesday is a simple dishcloth based around mitered squares—a relaxing, functional knit. It might be part of a series! (If it is, it’s Project 2/7, and I almost think it’s funnier if their publication days don’t match their namesake days, so I’m going to go ahead with this even though it’s definitely not Wednesday today.)
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Panthalassa is a long, sinuous triangle shawl. It features an easy yet engaging lace motif and multidirectional construction to show off a gradient yarn. And it knits up in a single skein, which is pretty wild for the results! (It looked small before blocking, but ended up a good size. I’m stoked about it. It’s a good return on the yarn investm...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit most of Squalicorax on the bias, starting from a small cast-on and increasing from there at a nice, leisurely pace. This shawl features a multidirectional structure that’s fun to knit and shows off a self-striping or gradient yarn well, and if you’re using a single skein, you’ll only have two ends to weave in when you’re done.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
Summer Kitchen 2023, Project No. 1: Friday Night Dishcloth
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Kerchief
This little square kerchief is so necessary, you’ll wonder what you were doing without one!
Knitting: Cowl
Galeocerdo Cowl uses stretchy sideways garter stitch to create a unique, well-shaped, close-fitting neckwarmer cowl.
Knitting: Cowl
VertiCowl I is a nice midweight version of my vertical cowl concept—you might have seen the lightweight original on my social media.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knit the Isometric Screenshot Shawl! It combines bias and traditional top-down shawl techniques. None of these are difficult, but the finished effect is kind of neat. Wear it to a Minecraft convention. Or don’t! You do what you want.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Easy Guy Shawl is a striped triangle shawl, knit from the top down. It’s designed to show off a gradient or multicolored yarn against a contrasting solid or tonal shade.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Textured Toast II combines top-down triangle-shawl construction with textured stitch motifs. An easy repeat makes this a project you can knit to any size, from kerchief to full-sized shawl. It works with any reasonable yarn, and because of this, gauge can be considered free.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Toast Triangle is a toasty triangle shawl—relatively straightforward, though it does carry over the triangle-garter-stitch-tab/combined-methods concept you may know from some of my other patterns.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Another set of garter-stitch shawl shapes! This .PDF includes Shapes III and IV, both.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
I am really excited about this! It turned out so well! The drape is so good! The wrap has a little bit of a pie-shaping to it, thought not a lot, which makes it very easy to style! You can block it to emphasize the shape, or block with straight edges! It’s hard to capture my original enthusiasm, because I’ve written this introduction at least t...
Knitting: Hats - Other
I should’ve called this the ONE STITCH CHALLENGE HAT, fellow kids, but I am not going to.
Knitting: Containers
Three little boxes to help with home organization, with the added benefit of being made from wool you already have. When not in use, they can be nested together.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Oneiros is a small shawl/kerchief with many style-referencing options, including “chiton” and “hobbit cloak.”
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Son of Dog Days III combines simple wrap-and-turn short rows with a diagonally-knit triangle shawl technique. This makes the shape weird. Weird shapes are pretty good.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
Summer Kitchen 2022: Chainlink Square
Knitting: Cowl
Spin your own 12-14 WPI yarn from hand-dyed wool top to knit the Agate Cowl! With two-ply yarn spun from dyed top split lengthwise, the color distribution creates subtle stripes reminiscent of agate in cross-section slices. Rocks are cool.
Knitting: Headband
Wavelet 2022 is a quick and fairly easy headband-style earwarmer!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Iteration is a hexagonal shawl with 2x2 ribbing details. It’s knit at a light, airy gauge in soft singles yarn.
Knitting: Cowl
Hex Key Cowl uses unusual—but relatively straightforward—shaping to make a closely-fitted cowl that pulls on over the wearer’s head.
Knitting: Cowl
Conduit Cowl/Wrap is at least three cowl (or wrap) styles in one calm project, and makes a good canvas for a collection of DK-weight yarn scraps and cool buttons.
Knitting: Cowl
This project pairs careful finishing techniques with an easy stitch pattern for a sleek-yet-cozy finished cowl.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Skep Hats share a top-down construction, and focus on easy textured stitches and small details. So far, they’ve used short row shaping as well, and use both flat and circular knitting techniques. (You can knit this with just one circular needle, but it’s a strain for the first rounds; you may opt to use DPNs there.)
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The .PDF has now been updated with an additional size and a correction to the final row and bindoff in the original version! If you’re working from a free copy, you can view errata here.
Knitting: Cowl
If you’ve always wished the garter stitch tab part of a project could last forever, this may be just the cowl for you!
Knitting: Throw
Charlie Square is written as a small throw; switch it up with lighter yarn at the same gauge to make a square shawl/wrap.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Starling Shawl! In this project, ribbing patterns suggest feathers and autumn murmurations if you use bird-colored yarn.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Pumice Cap is a lightweight beanie with a helmety shape!
Knitting: Cardigan
Caddis Cardigan is cardigan/sweatervest with an unusual, engaging construction—it’s a lot of fun to knit, and enjoyable to style and wear as well.
Knitting: Cowl
This cowl is all the tubes you can fit into a minimalist knit neckwarmer design. It’s tubes on tubes, and then you can add another tube, if you feel like it.
Knitting: Cowl
Patch Cowl! Knit a cowl out of patches. Slouch it and turn it different ways to create different looks; choose which color dominates on a whim; add vibrance and color to your autumn and (mild) winter outfits.
Knitting: Cowl
The name is lighthearted, but the finished project is detailed and looks surprisingly elegant.
Knitting: Cowl
There are a lot of mountains and hills called Sugarloaf, but mine—the inspiration for this—is cone-shaped, and either covered in or made up of fairly large rocks and boulders, mostly quartzite.
Knitting: Towel
Kitchen Towel is a simple, textured knit, about hand-towel size. Its main feature is an optional removable button, which can be used to attach the towel more securely to a slippery towel bar, and help prevent the towel from sliding onto the floor when you dry your hands.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
Aw man, a dishcloth! It’s technically part of the Summer Kitchen.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Highway 191 is an easy-to-wear shawl, roughly half-circle in shape, though a little more angular. You can block it with sharp lines or with a softer, rounder style.
Knitting: Containers
This is a bit of a weird departure—it’s a basket/pot/vessel, and instead of being a pure knitting project, it’s knit and then fulled/felted to create a dense fabric which holds its shape.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Planispiral is a circular shawl with a slightly unorthodox increase pattern. Knit it from the center out!
Knitting: Cowl
Table Salt is a slightly-tapered tube-shaped cowl. Knit it from a partial skein of your favorite soft sock yarn!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This shawl was going to be called Circle Time, but it’s a little blockier, and technically has seven sides—so, irregular heptagon it is.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Salt Hat is a beanie to match the SALT cowl, with simple textured stitches and slightly odd crown-shaping. The combination of vertical and horizontal lines created by the welting and ribbing is pretty nice, and it’s soft and functional in the yarn shown for the sample.
Knitting: Cowl
Bravo is a brioche kerchief cowl, knit mostly flat, with no seams to sew. It can be knit at any gauge, in any yarn! It’s a good showcase for handspun yarn or leftover bits of special skeins. (It’s called Bravo because I just remembered that that’s something I do when I was setting it up as “Brioche Kerchief Cowl.”)
Knitting: Scarf
Three Sisters (1) is a shawl! Or a scarf! More of a scarf, really. Because it is long.
Knitting: Pixie Hat
Medieval Weirdo Hat is a long, floppy pixie cap with a button fastener. (Use a safety snap for smaller kids.) It’s very simple to knit, but has a couple of interesting technical details, including a one-row buttonhole.
Knitting: Cowl
Gravitation features a slight conical shape, asymmetrical depth, and bold contrasts in texture and color for broad chevron stripes. It requires a main color (MC) and a smaller amount of contrast (CC), and looks good in a mostly-solid tonal yarn (larger capelet style), or with some variegation (smaller size).
Knitting: Cowl
Curtis Street Cowl is a simple cowl knit in multiple directions—and mostly knit flat, though the result is a circular cowl that’s nearly seamless. The directional changes show off a lush tonal hand-painted yarn to good effect.
Knitting: Cowl
Combine triangle shawl techniques for a tapered tube-shaped cowl! The patchwork look lends itself well to partial skeins and scraps,
Knitting: Cowl
Liner Notes 3 is 20% off through November 9th! All three Liner Notes patterns are 20% off through November 9th, in fact. Discount is taken from the listed price at checkout, with no coupon required.
Knitting: Throw
Basic Garter Square blanket uses simple garter stitch to show off those crisp, defined, geometric corners, and a couple of equally-simple yet good details to make it slightly more interesting as a project.
Knitting: Cowl
Emerger is a cowl that employs about three different shawl-and-cowl constructions over the course of the project. Overall, during the first half, things change fast and there is some challenge to the work—and the second half makes good movie/novel night knitting once you’ve got the rhythm down.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Gopher takes the garter stitch tab shawl construction to an absurd extreme. Happily, the result is a very wearable finished piece, with nice drape around the shoulders. In the vaguest way, it has a cool Clint Eastwood serape kind of thing going on, which is nice because I have wanted a cool Clint Eastwood serape kind of thing since last winter....
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Dog Days 8 is an unexpected addition to the Dog Days series of mini-projects! When knit at the gauge listed in sportweight yarn, it’s a good kerchief size; if you knit it in worsted-weight or aran yarn, it approaches the size of a mini-shawl.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
North Fork is a simple brioche triangle, and also an exercise in making ridiculously specific references to bodies of water in your shawl titles. It’s refreshingly simple—a dozen lines of instruction set it up, and then the body of the shawl comes down to a brief repeat.
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
If you’ve got a kid, and they need some summer clothes, I guess this is a good knitting option. All but the largest of the currently planned sizes can be knit from a single skein of Noro Taiyo Sock or another summer-friendly yarn, and all the work is done with a single circular needle, so there are no DPNs to wrangle.
Knitting: Cowl
Window Greens technically precedes the 14-square scarf, but it’s definitely in the same family. It uses mitered squares and a mix of buttons to transform a pretty straightforward rectangle into something that can be fashioned into a variety of shapes, and also keep your neck warm.
Knitting: Cowl
Liner Notes 2 is a cowl companion to Liner Notes 1. It requires a lot of stockinette, but the results are pretty nice after a light blocking.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Liner Notes 1 is a simple knit in plain stockinette, but good details give it a sleek, well-developed minimalism, and make it an excellent canvas to show off a good hand-dyed yarn.
Knitting: Cowl
Second Instar is a triangle-based cowl with minimalist stitch patterns (stockinette and a little bit of garter), designed to show off a good yarn in a unique but subtly different construction.
Knitting: Cowl
Crevasse is a simple tube-based neckwarmer/cowl with minimal shaping. It’s knit in light fingering-weight yarn, making it a good project to show off a single skein, and it’s embellished with a lot of semi-functional buttons.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Morpho is a relatively easy lace-and-texture triangle shawl, knit diagonally. The smaller size can be made with a single skein of luxury fingering-weight yarn: Malabrigo Mechita or madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light are both good options. (The sample is shown in Tosh Merino Light in colorway “Danger, Will Robinson.”)
Knitting: Cowl
Electric Trilobite is a fitted cowl/collar-style neckwarmer, knit in squishy, flexible garter stitch.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Simple Mitts are my simplest, most basic woolen mitts! They are easy to make—the only special skill you’ll need is the ability to knit in the round comfortably using DPNs.
Knitting: Cowl
First Instar Cowl can be knit in any soft yarn, at any gauge, using the guidelines and line instructions provided in the schematic. (I cannot believe I forgot the most important design element; that is it, really. You can use any yarn. It is kind of nifty, and a good way to make a year-in-review scrap project from this pattern. Or any scrap pro...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Taiga Moss is a deeply textured triangle shawl. It pairs brioche rib and garter stitch for an intuitive, easy intermediate knit with a rich texture.
Knitting: Scarf
Dishmat Scarf was simply inevitable. Dishmat Scarf pairs easy knitting pairs with faux cable details for a cozy, textured finished object.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Strandlines Beanie is a companion knit to match Strandlines Cowl. It’s a long traditional toque-style hat rather than a skullcap, meant to be worn slouched or with the brim folded, watchcap-style.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
The Kemmerer mitts use a unique construction concept, come in three official sizes, and knit up fairly quickly in sportweight or 6 ply sock yarn. They’re a design relative for the Kemmerer Cowl and Kemmerer Cap, and if you choose your yarn from a source with overlapping colorways between different yarn weights, you can knit a set that’s as matc...
Knitting: Cowl
The Strandlines Cowl is a deep, textured cowl with the Basalt series construction. Cozy and unisex, it knits up fairly quickly in bulky yarn, and the smaller size can be made in one skein of the yarn shown when it’s knit at gauge.
Knitting: Shrug / Bolero
Holothurian 2 is a versatile, convertible shrug/cowl/miniscarf. It uses a simple lace and garter-stitch motif to create almost a faux-crochet look, and to make it wearable several different ways with the placement of 6-8 buttons.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Trinity Lace Beanie is designed to be worn as a traditional toque—it’s long enough to wear slouched back or folded up, and has a little more volume than the Columnar Jointing beanie.
Knitting: Cowl
The Trinity Stitch Cowl is a variation on a kerchief-style scarf, incorporating elements of a mini-shawl and tube-shaped cowls. It’s written for a single size, but includes notes about customization.
Knitting: Cowl
The Columnar Jointing cowl is a companion knit to the Columnar Jointing Hat! The .PDF pattern is currently written for one size, which is about 12”/30cm tall and 27”/68 in circumference, and fits as a neckwarmer.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Columnar Jointing is a simple ribbed beanie—or is it?
Knitting: Earwarmers
Dog Days 7 is a simple headband in the shape of an irregular hexagon, knit mostly in garter stitch, and bordered with YO eyelets. It’s an excellent summer project, whether you work it up in summer-friendly materials or wool; either way, it’s small and light to work on, and won’t amount to a giant sweater’s worth of woolen yarn on hot summer days.
Knitting: Headband
The last of the Dog Days mini-projects, Dog Days 6 is simple and easy, and knits up quickly in about 75 yards of sportweight yarn. I’d envisioned it with the thicker part toward the back of the head, and the narrow part to the front, but you can also reverse it for a sort of vague Wonder Woman effect.
Knitting: Kerchief
Dog Days 5 is a bias-knit triangle shawl shape boiled down to its most basic form (and then complicated again very slightly--this pattern includes both the very basic version and one that uses the selvedge trick from the Offshoot scarf).
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Offshoot is available in two forms: there’s a free version, and a pay .PDF with two variations, more photos, and a schematic. The .PDF is priced at $4.80, so this is sort of a tip jar pattern (after payment system fees, I get about $4), with a little bit of a bonus for people who want to support the future production of mouse army knitting patt...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Ocean Child is a shrug/shawl/cape/cowl/button contraption that can be styled in many different ways, and works surprisingly well in all of them, so far. It knits up using a unique shawl-based construction and sportweight Malabrigo Arroyo. The s/m size uses just under 600 yards, or two skeins, and the m/l size will require around three skeins.
Knitting: Kerchief
Dog Days 3 is a small kerchief. It can be worn as a headwrap or as a neckerchief, or worn by a dog as a dog bandana, provided your dog doesn’t eat bandanas and you really like your dog, enough to knit him or her a scarf.
Knitting: Scarf
Dog Days 4 wraps up the series for now—it’s another smallish kerchief project (though this one is a little larger, and comes as one adjustable size), using just a little more than a half-skein of Malabrigo Rios yarn.
Knitting: Scarf
Spring Feverish 5 is available as an individual .PDF download for $5, or as a set with the other Spring Feverish patterns for $15!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Kemmerer Cap is the companion knit to Kemmerer Cowl!With an asymmetric earflap brim, this garter-stitch hat has a little bit of a whimsical design, but isn’t quite as drastic or dramatic as Driggs, for example. The .PDF is an instant download, and it’s a moderately big file, with plenty of tutorial-style photos to help ease you in to this sligh...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Buena Onda is an easy-to-knit triangle shawl! It can be knit at any reasonable gauge in any reasonable yarn (super bulky might be impractical, but hey, if you want to, go for it!), and the construction is very friendly to randomly-sized skeins, making it ideal for handspun.
Knitting: Cowl
The Kemmerer Cowl knits up fast, pairing a very basic stitch (garter) with an engaging alternative construction method. The project is simple, but the construction unique, so the pattern is explicitly detailed, to ensure you won’t have to struggle with the way it’s put together or invent your own seaming. It’s all there!
Knitting: Cowl
Switchback Neckwarmer is another design in the short-row Switchback series—a tapered, funnel-style cowl with the same characteristic brioche ribs and short-row shaping.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Knit the Switchback Hat in heavy sockweight yarn, using texture-rich brioche, short rows, and two colors for a unique winter beanie. Skill level is roughly intermediate—you’ll need to be familiar with or comfortable learning short rows and basic brioche knitting terms and techniques.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Todd Hat is a basic ribbed beanie, but it’s knit in yellow. It’s made from hand-dyed yarn, which gives it a fetching watercolor-wash look. This is essentially my longstanding hiking hat pattern, but again: yellow. Pattern totally won’t work if you knit it in any other color. (See Note.)
Knitting: Scarf
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Red Rocks/Welted Wedge is broad on one end and narrow at the other, with a dramatic disparity between the two, for a wedge-shaped triangle wrap/shawl/scarf. It’s long and slim-line, with a good sweep and a malleable shape that lends well to all different kinds of styling.
Knitting: Cowl
The Switchback Cowl is a cowl in the circle-scarf style—a continuous loop you can wear loosely or doubled up! It has a lot of texture and visual interest, and looks a lot different depending on how you wrap it.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This mini-shawl/triangle scarf combines a traditional triangle shawl concept with some extra geometric shaping, for an interesting look that’s easier to style. This is a truly unisex design, and one that can be made to suit a variety of personal styles as well, depending on the yarn you choose. In a multi-color handspun yarn (which was the orig...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Fibo(nacci) Sequence is a triangle shawl with Fibonacci stripes. It’s big and cozy in the main version, at 72” in wingspan, but the .PDF contains both explicit instructions for the project shown and an extra tutorial/set of number keys to serve as inspiration for at least four other options, ranging from kerchief-sized to even bigger (is it pra...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Pragmatist is a thick knit beanie in brioche rib! It can be knit as a simple reversible hat, or modified (instructions included) to make a reversible hat that can also be styled as a thick collar-style scarf. The malleable nature of brioche fabric makes this a hat with more style options than usual, too: it can be shaped for a rounded look, or ...
Knitting: Pixie Hat
Hieronymus is a hybrid pixie/earflap/bonnet-style knit hat, made from sportweight sock yarn. Buttons are optional, mostly because I forgot to add them to the first three hats I made, and they seemed fine, but worth it if you want to wear the earflaps pinned up. Mitered corners and accelerating decreases show off a self-striping yarn to good eff...
Knitting: Cloche Hat
Brioche Cloche is a simple brioche-stitch hat with a slight brim flare for a cloche-ish shape, plus some easy crochet details! You’ll need experience knitting in the round and working brioche to knit this hat, and being comfortable with a little bit of crochet will help as well.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
January Swatchcap is a simple yet effective beanie pattern, pairing interesting, functional shaping with easy stitch patterns for a reversible, textured, lightweight hat.
Knitting: Earflap Hat
The Twotrack Hat features subtle, shallow earflap-style shaping paired with basic brioche ribbing. The written pattern features lots of photos and schematics, showing the dimensions of the finished hat and details of the shaping that makes this hat unique.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The North Side hat gets its name from its textured moss stitch motif! It knits up into a beanie that fits average adults (which means it also fits large-headed kids: about 21-23” is best, but it looks all right on the 20” circumference styrofoam model, too) and features some subtle but effective shaping to create shallow earflaps.
Knitting: Scarf
Foxpark is a simple short row garter-stitch scarf. It closes into a loop using buttons, so it can be worn as a continuous cowl and looped two or three times. But when worked at gauge, it’s long enough to style in attractive traditional scarf knots, and can also be worn as a…well, as a scarf.
Knitting: Cowl
Knit this cowl in four sizes, using your own chunky handspun or a commercial alternative. The Modified Ribboned Stockinette Stitch Cowl is September 2017’s free pattern!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Bunny is a basic beanie in a textured stitch! It works up best in a solid bulky wool yarn (the sample used Malabrigo Yarns Merino Chunky) and looks good with or without a pompon. The pompon shown is a little too dense for my tastes, and this causes pompon floppiness; if you’d like to avoid it, make your pompon smaller and/or loftier.
Knitting: Scarf
Flatlander is a traditional scarf, worked side-to-side (technically) in a simple stitch pattern. It’s a companion to VLA shawl. Knit it up in a lofty woolen-spun 100% wool yarn for best results--the sample shown, knit in alpaca blend (discontinued Nashua Handknits Ivy), has a little too much drape.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Vla Shawl is an enormous, slightly shallow half-circle wrap, knit in DK to worsted weight yarn. As shown, it takes 3 skeins of Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok 150 in the Cast Iron colorway. The neutral colors of the big 150g skeins of Woolstok make a cozy natural-looking wrap, but this project might also lend itself well to special single skeins that ...
Knitting: Kerchief
Dog Days is a series of small knitting projects, ideal for good boys (and meant for fallible humans, too).
Knitting: Beret, Tam
The 16th C. Hipster Hat is the third hat design in the pentaradial series! It’s my favorite of the group now, with a dense textured garter stitch set off by stockinette lines. You’ll find a star pattern developing at the crown of this one, too--choose a dk-to-worsted handspun or a colorful commercial yarn to enhance this pattern further!
Knitting: Beret, Tam
Pentaradial is a tam- or beret-style slouchy hat. It’s a textured, roomy topper with pentaradial symmetry and a really nice star shape at the crown! Knit one for yourself; knit one for a friend; knit one to match your pack and take it on a long hike. It’s a good summer knit, being smaller than a sweater or a blanket, and easy to take along with...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Trad. is two richly-textured beanie-style hats in one pattern--knit the messy bun version to accommodate a high bun hairstyle, or knit the more traditional version for a more traditional beanie.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Reed is a wide scarf/wrap/shawl that converts into a cozy cowl with the use of buttons--it’s broad enough for a wrap, but can be neatly closed up to keep the ends out of the way in winter.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Machina is a small welted half-circle shawlette--easy to knit and luxurious when knit in soft Malabrigo Yarns Rastita or a similar yarn. If you feel like knitting a small shawl, but want to end up wearing a versatile vaguely-futuristic-Victorian-cape/cowl/scarf/shawl thing with lots of buttons, this design is for you!
Knitting: Kerchief
It can also be purchased in a set with the other 3 Spring Feverish patterns for $15.
Knitting: Scarf
Spring Feverish 2 is a mini-wave project, and part of the Spring Feverish series! Buy it alone, or in combination with the other Spring Feverish mini-projects; when purchased as a set, they are $15 for all four.
Knitting: Cowl
Or buy it as a set with the other Spring Feverish patterns for $15. Discount is automatic in your cart when all four patterns in the set are purchased.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Navigator is my favorite basic brioche hat, finally written up and standardized at a relatively quick-knitting chunky gauge. It can be worn slouched (though the dense fabric makes it stick up a bit) or folded. The fabric is thick and cozy, and the pattern gives you at least a few hours of knitting enjoyment--and a pretty good hat when you’re do...
Knitting: Headband
Meant as a simple early two-color brioche project, or an easy knit for those already more familiar with these techniques, this .PDF results in a pretty nice headband, and works up relatively quickly, for brioche, in velvety-soft 100% wool Malabrigo Yarn Chunky.
Knitting: Kerchief
This knitting pattern is available for $4.00 US--or get all 4 Spring Feverish patterns for $15! This discount is automatic when you add all four to your cart.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
PODA is, in a way, the mouse army take on the messy bun hat madness--a wide headband/headwrap/hat with buttons on the side. This chevron-stitched band is a neat way to keep messy hair under wraps, and it can be knit as shown for a slight pixie look and a snailshell silhouette, or knit at a slightly smaller gauge for a narrower band with less of...
Knitting: Cowl
Quick correction: The free version of this pattern contained a mistake re: yardage; it stated that you need 200 yards, but my official weight-based estimate is actually 220yards/201m. The .PDF has already been corrected as of this writing, 12/18, so only those who downloaded the free early promotional copy might be affected.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Ginger is a delicate, fine-knit wave lace sampler beanie hat (though I’ve added notes to help you knit a slouched version, if you prefer).
Knitting: Scarf
Feather is a huge, wrap-sized reversible chevron scarf that features a textured faux-cable centered decrease and a soft, feathery look. It’s knit in aran or heavy worsted yarn (what you call it depends more on your location than anything else, I think), and the result is a huge, cozy scarf, and freedom from any worries about wearing it inside o...
Knitting: Scarf
Little Laramie is small, but surprisingly nice; it can be worn as a neckerchief or a headpiece, makes a nice unisex neckwarmer,* and also looks good on a dog. (Please always supervise scarf-wearing dogs; some are only familiar with the word “scarf” as a verb.)
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Victor is a richly textured take on a traditional foldable, slouchable, functional beanie. This classic hat is lumberjack dude- and minimalist-friendly, with a thick textured fabric. And it’s an engaging knit, too, in a pattern that is roughly intermediate in skill level but easy to grasp.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Winter Folk is a richly textured lacy hat with a natural mori-girl feeling. Knit it in rustic wool or a precious hand-dyed single--this inviting pattern looks beautiful in plain wool, but also shows off the gleaming depths of a good hand-dyed or hand-painted yarn really well.
Knitting: Cowl
The Winter Folk cowl features a robust, textured lace that works up well in handspun and/or rustic, natural wools. It’s a cozy finished piece and a pretty enjoyable knit. (I’ve made three so far!)
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
MANTA is an easy-to-knit wraparound shawl with a slightly unusual shape. It’s ideal for handspun and simple to work, and the resulting wrap has a jagged look that lends itself well to many different styles - depending on your approach and yarn choice, it could be a sleek alternatively-shaped modern evening wrap or a ragged post-apocalyptic scarf.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Hallgrímur is a simple knit beanie/lumberjack hat in a traditional style, with a twist at the end. It knits up quickly for an excellent baby gift, and the clean simple lines make it ideal for menswear, too.
Knitting: Cardigan
Teasel is another part of the Evolver project - an ongoing study of traditional shawl forms that evolve into other shapes. Designed to look great in your wardrobe and appeal to shawl- and sweater-knitters alike, Teasel is a great project to ease you into late summer and fall!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Mending Stitch is a light, loose-knit shawl with a well-stitched look - a good alternative to lacy traditional motifs. It’s simple to knit, and you’ll only need a single 24-48” circular knitting needle in size needed for gauge in order to make it. It’s good travel knitting that continues to travel well once it’s a finished part of your wardrobe.
Knitting: Shrug / Bolero
Leif is a good many-seasons shrug with an elegantly simple top-down construction, featuring long sleeves (extra long in the original, with instructions for modding them if you don’t want them quite so cozy), textured garter stripes, stockinette, and lace. It’s an enjoyable knit, but not very difficult, and the results are nice!
Knitting: Cowl
There is a part of me that wants to call this simple classic lace cowl Ombre Waves of Grain, but I will stick with what I called it originally.
Knitting: Hanging Ornament
These tiny handknit hats make cute holiday ornaments, and use only a tiny bit of yarn for each one - about 3 yards each! Make tiny pompons to top them off, and you’re ready to display them or add them to your giftwrap designs.
Knitting: Cowl
This is a reasonably simple knit, and it results in a sweet, versatile scarf/wrap/poncho/cowl that makes great use of your vintage button collection! It can be knit with one 440 yard (402 m) skein of Malabrigo Sock, Knitpicks Fingering Weight Gloss Bare, or any similar undyed fleece white yarn with the same approximate weight and yardage.
