Fairisle/stranded colourwork and a tapered wrist makes these gloves super cosy and elegant.

This pattern is based on texture created by knit and purl stitches, and it is pretty straightforward to knit. It consists of a crenellated tower top, with spiralling steps descending, or ascending.

Gentle waves lead up to a stylised wave/triangular penant motif at the top.

The Arts & Crafts philosophy was a reaction against mass production and over-ornate decoration concealing or mis-representing the provenance and purpose of an item. It advocated traditional crafting by hand, using flat, simple motifs and forms, often inspired by nature & often in a romantic or folk style. It is an ideal of individual cr...

This Venus sock pattern has clamshells in a half drop repeated design. It’s a pretty design, with a lovely scalloped ribbed top.

This is the September pattern for our 2012 Mythology Sock Club.

This is the August installment of our 2012 Mythology Sock Club.

Instructions included for working both double sided or in the round.

Difficulty rating: low to medium

We are making a cushion to commemorate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of the Queen’s succession to the throne. To be worked over 9 months, or sooner if you wish: 9 different squares in total. Each square will be available to buy separately.

Our Alice in Wonderland cushion is based on the glorious illustrations by Sir John Tenniel: a lobster preparing for a quadrille, a dodo wielding a walking stick, a hookah smoking caterpillar, the cheshire cat, so many wonderful images. Will you won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you won’t you join the dance?

This is the May installment of our 2012 mythology sock club.

This cosy, double thickness scarf can be worked in the round or from side to side.

A simple cable pattern forms a bulbous ogee curve, to represent the shape of the pomegranate. In the middle of the pomegranate shape is a cluster of 4 small holes, to represent the 4 pomegranate seeds that Persephone ate while she was in the underworld.

This scoop-necked pullover has an interesting textured pattern reminiscent of overlapping feathers. A cosy and comfortable knit, which is worked in the round.

This pattern is great for using up small amounts of yarn.

This reversible, textured shawl can be worked in any weight yarn. We recommend that you use a fairly small size needle for the yarn selected, since the seafoam shawl fabric is naturally loose due to the large number of yarn overs incorporated into the pattern.

Undulating waves enclose these lacey socks.

These cosy, textured gloves, have great elasticity, so that they sit close to the shape of your hand, are for DK weight yarn. The gloves pictured were knit in Violet Green Sereia DK; one 100g skein is enough for a pair of adult gloves.

Stella is a textured, lacey stole, which can also be used as a scarf. Stella looks rather as if it was created via freeform knitting, but the pattern is systematic and surprisingly easy to follow. And although each star motif is knit individually, the scarf builds up by casting on new stitches and picking up existing stitches, so that there is ...

The colourwork pattern on this sock might look complicated, but it emerges from just 6 simple & repetitve patterning lines, hence the name.

Instructions are included for making the gloves pictured, or for adapting these to make fingerless mittens.

Can be knit in any weight yarn. The scarf pictured was knit with 4ply weight yarn, and 5mm needles: big needles to make the scarf more fluid/floppy.

This semi-circular shawlette has a dense & labyrinthine criss-crossing pattern, which opens out on the outer half of the shawl, and ends in a short patterned-ruffle. The pattern creates a pretty scalloped finish along the straight edge of the shawl too.

A textured triangular shawl with an integral shaped and furl-free edge.

A paradigm shift in the way we knit socks/stripes! Works well with variegated yarn.

The triskele, three interlocking spirals, is a Celtic symbol taken to denote earth, sea and sky, or the interlocking, never-ending spiral of life. Ancient triskele spirals can be found at various Neolithic and Megalithic sites, most notably at Newgrange, Ireland.

Difficulty rating: medium: uses simple twist stitches, but there is plenty of plain knitting and purling too.

The Reel of Three sock is named after the Scottish country dance in which three dancers weave in and around each other to create a figure of eight movement. It’s a reasonably straightforward pattern, shaped by a small number of twist stitches, interspersed with plenty of plain knitting and purling so that there is plenty of stretch and give in ...

To go with Feather and Fan Slouchy Beret

Gaudi socks, for any weight of yarn: instructions are given for sizing.

For any size foot and any tension (instructions given for sizing).

Swirls form around little eyelet stalks, then become larger swirls around larger eyelet stalks, which turn into a furl-free garter stitch chevron-patterned edge.

Stocking stitch swirls around lace spade-motifs on this ruffled-edged shawl, which can be knit with any yarn weight: use a bigger needle size than usual to create a looser, lacier stitch.

Beanstalk gauntlet sock has a shaped top, and a climbing beanstalk pattern which condenses at the toe of the sock until it disappears.

Beanstalk gauntlet sock has a shaped top, and a climbing beanstalk pattern which condenses at the toe of the sock until it disappears.

Great for variegated yarns: the yarn follows the line of the V rather than going horizontally across the finished scarf.

No longer available.

This triangular shaped shawl is worked from the bottom up, and has an integral furl-free shaped edge, so no additional edging is required.

Like the sea in a Force Five Wind.

This simple triangular shawl can be knit in any weight of wool. The integral stepped, furl-free edge means that no additional edging is required. The shawl pictured was knit with 100g of 4ply/sock/fingering weight yarn.

2 sizes included: s/m adult and m/l adult.