Whenever friends have babies, I want to do something for them. This typically means a blanket. Rather than my go-to “pattern” of a diagonal stripey blanket, I thought I’d be different: a not-diagonal stripey blanket! The sample uses four colors, but you could easily use more or less, make it asymmetric – whatever you want, really!

Whenever friends have babies, I want to do something for them. This typically means a blanket. My go-to “pattern” is a simple two-color one that starts with one stitch and expands diagonally. You could make this blanket arbitrarily large or small. For that matter, you could use more than just two colors!

Good friends of ours were having their first baby, and in

This scarf is an easy introduction to beaded lace knitting. It features a simple leaf pattern, and the sample is knit in green yarn. The combination of green and leaves immediately (and constantly) invokes my friend Kris, who has a mild obsession with both (in a good way). We both love how beads look in knitting, so it seemed only fitting to na...

This scarf is a reversible cable knit in super bulky yarn, which makes for a very quick accessory or gift. The reversibility is achieved by working the cable on a 1x1 rib base. The cable is worked by crossing the stitches on either side of a center stitch across each other. The center stitch always remains at the center.