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Varna, ‘color’ in Sanskrit, is a celebration of variegated yarn with long repeats. Paired with a neutral, solid colored yarn, the shawl lets the variegated yarn be the hero, while the solid yarn remains the unsung one. The Varna Shawl is knit from one corner to the other edge, starting with few stitches in a …
Vikings are cool, and so are the people who fought against them. Warrior women are even cooler, so when you have a woman who fought against the Vikings—well, that’s about as cool as it gets. The inspiration for this design was just that sort of supercool woman: Aethelflaed of Mercia, a tenth century ruler who …
The sky’s the limit! Don’t let a gate to limit you. Open a gate and go, find new ways, knowledge, creativity! Subscribe and get access to ALL premium patterns! – OR – Purchase this single pattern Yarn Cascade Yarns Heritage (100% Superwash Merino, 437 yds [400m]/100 g [3.5 oz.]), or Malabrigo Sock (100% Superwash Merino, …
Melusina’s Gauntlets feature a 4-rib braid with different types of crosses on the back of the hand. The cuff is knit on at the end and shaped with strategically-placed cables. Imagine the beautiful Melusina wearing these gauntlets when she leaves the castle for her weekly ride to the lake, trusting her husband’s promise never to …
When I asked one of my best friends (“kindred spirits”) to describe her ideal hat, she envisioned this super soft, lightweight, slouchy hat with a Celtic-inspired cable pattern. I created it for her, and loved it so much that I knit up a matching one for myself. Recently, when another best friend was in need …
The design on this cowl is inspired by the style of art known as Insular, or Hiberno-Saxon. Knotwork decoration is a major feature of this style, and it has terrific visual interest when knitted up using the mosaic technique. The technique itself requires only very basic knitting skills; mosaic knitting makes colorwork easy! The garter …
Beatitude takes its name from the blessings that are pronounced in the Sermon on the Mount, of which there are eight (as they are commonly numbered). In this piece, eight colors are used in a modified version of feather and fan, knit in the round, to create a doubled cowl for extra warmth. The beginning and …
Subscribe and get access to ALL premium patterns! – OR – Purchase this single pattern The Berry Shawl was inspired by hot summers and the lush berries with ice cream that have their season in summer. The little pops of raspberries, the marbling of a good ice cream, all knitted into a lovely shawl with …
Nothing symbolizes spring better than budding, blooming tulips. Tulips are beautiful reminders of spring and summer. “Tulip Season” is a narrow, one-skein, lace scarf with a simple and intuitive flowering-buds lace pattern resembling blooming tulip buds. The scarf is light and feminine and makes for a wonderful accessory, ideal to cover your neck or shoulders …
“Leafy Paths” is a lacy rectangular wrap knit in lightweight yarn so it can be worn over an outfit on a breezy afternoon or over an evening gown or as an accessory over a shirt, tee or top. The wrap uses a leaves lace stitch pattern and a central mesh pattern. Learn More About Jaya! …
The idea for this unusually-constructed short-rows shawl came from the painting ‘Wheat Fields,’ by Vincent Van Gogh. Working a slightly variegated green yarn horizontally and a yellow speckled yarn vertically appeared the perfect challenge to attempt painting with yarn. Baah La Jolla in colorways Emerald Isle and Because I’m Happy are the perfect combination of …
Hand-dyed yarn has a special pull to it when seen and held at the store, but once home, I often find myself unsure what to work up with it: an intricate pattern would get lost in the color variations, and while we all love garter stitch shawls, sometimes something a little bit more challenging is …
I love to be in the woods or at the river in the summer. In the evening, we often make a little fire and enjoy staring into the flames. The little blue fire flamelets on the hottest spots of the fire inspired me to create this knitting pattern. To represent the variation and shades of …
“Duality” is a triangular shawl, highlighting the contrast between basic stockinette stripes and zig-zagging mosaic knit stripes of the same two colors. The shawl is finished off using a two-color bind-off, alternating the two colors. This design represents the two sides of a knitter – time to let the “wild” side show! The size of …
Aviarium: From Avis (bird) and Arium (a place for)…. Everywhere I went, I was seeing birdcages! The garden center was selling them for placing your own plants in; the supermarket had them prefilled with moss and succulents. Every home décor catalog I saw had one! I wanted one, too, but as I lack the ability …
The Amai Shawl, Japanese for ‘sweet’, has been designed to let gradient yarns shine. Treat yourself to TV-knitting and get a beautiful shawl as a reward. The pattern can be worked in any yarn weight and at any gauge you like. Instructions for worsted and fingering yarn are included. For other yarn weights, see notes …
Add a touch of flair to your outfit with this colorful, crescent shaped shawl. Worked in fingering weight yarn, the main body of this shawl is worked from end to end with increases and decreases to make the crescent shape. The lacy border is worked back and forth along the curved edge once the main …
Craving a crochet shawl with some texture and repetition I cast on, letting the pattern flow and grow. I added an elegant edging with 2 different options which can be repeated as often as one chooses. I finished with a picot edge to match the outside turning edge. “Owl’s Clover” is a species of plant …
Curling up on the couch to read a good book or bingeing on your favorite show demands the perfect, luxurious pair of socks to keep your toes toasty warm during the colder months. Euna Bedsocks are your go-to for hunkering down with a good cup of tea. Using a soft, squishy yarn and a broken …
Ajao is a design inspired by a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria where I was lucky enough to spend a month. The colorwork pays homage to the multitude of different window shutters and jumble of metal grilles all stacked on top of each other that I encountered on my daily walk to the bus stop. The …
I designed this shawl to feature the KnitCircus lmpressionist yarn in the colorway Space is Big, Really Big. From the KnitCircus website, a description of the colorway: Inspired by the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trilogy by Douglass Adams, this color celebrates the vastness of space, “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is, I …
The Mohair Magic socks are knit holding a strand of laceweight mohair together with a regular sock yarn. This combination, especially when combining a dark and a light yarn, gives the finished work an amazing sheen and softness. The finished object will appear to shine! Paired with some simple 1/1 cables in a diagonal striping …
