SCIENCE IS BEAUTIFUL celebrates the beauty and awesomeness of our universe. It includes 5 shawl patterns: Elemental: Birth of a Supernova, Elemental: Noble Gases & Halogens, Elemental: Colors of Metal, Fibonacci Golden Spiral, and Reflection & Refraction.

Wide and long with a simple repeat and no shaping, this scarf is a great first project to introduce knitters to the beauty and easy of lace stitches. Combining traditional leaf motifs and more modern geometric designs, novices will enjoy the challenge of the occasional two stitch decrease, while breezing through the regular repeats with ease.

Plain stockinette knitting blooms into large and lovely petals between impressive swathes of multi-directional openwork mesh. Yarn overs and simple decreases create an easy, mesmerizing lace design that is sure to make new knitters catch the lace bug and results in a shawl that drapes beautifully.

Named for the fashionable district of Paris, Le Marais is a slouchy hat with eyelet polka dots and cinched with an i-cord bow for a sweet winter accessory - tres jolie!

This hat is the knitting equivalent of the old Best Friend necklaces - you know the one where you either got the side that said “Be Fri” or “St End”? Only this time you pick your main color and contrasting color (“Be-Fri”) and then swap them for the version you give to your best friend (“St-End”). Best part - 2 skeins of most fingering weight y...

You either saw the name of this, clicked and thought “yep, extremely giant oversized scarf, checks out” or you need to google “Kravitz scarf” to understand the knitwear stylistic genius of Lenny Kravitz. I’m not saying he’s wearing a blanket as a scarf, but he’s totally wearing a blanket as a scarf and pulling.it.off.

Squishy bulky yarn plus size 11 (8 mm) needles equals a lovely Winter set you can whip up in a single afternoon.

Cowl a Go Go is the perfect last minute gift with the size small taking 3 hours to knit and the large only 4 hours. Make one of each size for a super cozy cool cowl/hood/balaclava look or for a cowl/slouchy hat set. An additional i-cord can be added threaded through the bottom of the small size to turn your cowl into a hat in a cinch!

Graphic and delightful, Kapowski Leg Warmers will add a touch of fun to any ensemble. Use bright colors for an eye-catching pop, or neutrals for a look to complement any outfit you may own.

The Electric Gumdrops set includes the patterns for both the hat (in 3 sizes) and the infinity scarf (in 3 sizes) - as well as notes on how to make the 3 different versions shown.

Fall is the perfect time for the gnomes to hide in plain sight among the trees, as they don their autumn colors. This adorable colorwork hat employs 5 colors in an accessory you’ll love to make, wear, and show off. Security will be as tight as you’d like!

Passepartout is a flexible pattern that can result in a kerchief, scarflette, scarf, shawlette, or shawl based upon the number of increase/decrease repeats you work. It’s equally beautiful with only 2 colors or as a stashbuster for all the fingering weight scraps you have.

Frozen Fractals is a shawl worthy of the Snow Queen herself. It features a large snowflake motif surrounded by sparkling snow and finished with a sideways edging that showcases the beauty of the Tipsy Sheep Yarn.

This hat was designed for the always cheerful pathologist, Molly Hooper, from the BBC series Sherlock.

Portland Saturday Market is a reversible, super slouchy hat that has a fisherman ribbed brim and uses the fibonacci sequence for the knit sections and purl ridges. The hat is a little bit hipster (soooo slouchy) and little bit nerdy (hello fibonacci!) - perfect for strolling around the Portland Saturday Market looking for artisan cheeses and ge...

The Slow Huggers are a family of adorable sloths. They are great at hugging people and each other with their big snuggly heads and their long squishy arms. Add snaps or magnets to their hands and feet to hang them from arms, trees, or even baby cribs!

Mal: It’s of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world.

Inspired by Irish fishing villages, the Cabled Net Shawl combines left and right slanting mesh, to mimic the look of fishing nets. A braided cable on the edge adds the cheeky hint of a fisherman’s sweater to a seamless shawl knit in one piece.

Seismography is a hat and cowl set using slipped stitches to create a fun and easy colorwork pattern that resembles the graph of an earthquake on a seismogram.

Kaylee Frye: “The term is ‘companion.’”

Mal: “Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?”

“Oh my god! What could it be? We’re all doomed! Who’s flying this thing?! Oh right, that would be me. Back to work”

Like other heavy elements, metals were formed through nuclear fusion after a star died and became a supernova. Although most elements were relatively unknown before the 19th and 20th centuries, metallic elements have shaped human development from the very beginning. Even parts of our history - the Bronze Age and the Iron Age - are defined by wh...

The Elemental: Noble Gases & Halogens is from my “SCIENCE IS BEAUTIFUL” series. Noble Gases and Halogens are the most colorful elements on the periodic table. Each element is depicted with its accurate electron configuration with “electron” beads in the color of the element. This is the second of three designs involving elements (see also, ...

All matter in the universe comes from stars. What starts as a ball of hydrogen and helium gases, becomes the building blocks for everything through millions and billions of years of gravity and pressure. In some stars, with enough gravity, pressure, and heat, nuclear fusion occurs and new elements are formed. With the right conditions, fusion c...

Who doesn’t love rainbows? I mean, really, of all the things in nature, rainbows are definitely one of the coolest. No matter how old I get, when I see one it still makes me really happy. Not only are rainbows beautiful, but the science behind them is also quite amazing. Rainbows happen when sunlight hits raindrops at a specific angle and the l...

Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers that begin with 0 and 1 and continue with the next number as a sum of the previous two - ex: 0+1=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, and so on to infinity. This sequence is commonly used in computer algorithms, but more interestingly, appears in many forms in nature - from spiral galaxies to nautilus shells.

As of 03/13/2014 the pattern now includes 2 sizes (shawlette in lace and full-sized shawl in fingering) and complete written and charted instructions available as separate downloads!

This is the perfect hat for last minute gifts. Using Bernat Roving, the toddler size takes only 1.5 hours, the child/tween hat only 2 hours, and the adult hat only 2.5 hours! The Harvey is great for men, women, and children and in super bulky yarn provides stylish warmth for the head and ears all winter long. For those living in warmer climates...

The Misha Stripy Sherbet Hat is a super fun hat for babies, kids, or adults and the pattern provides instructions for 4 sizes: XS (0-2 years), S (2-12 years), M (12 years - regular headed adult), and L (large headed adults). The hat is very stretchy and long so sizes are very versatile.

Monika is my best friend in the whole world - BFITWW as we say. I have known her longer than anyone outside of my family. She is fairy godmother to my daughter and I honestly don’t know where I would be without her. We’ve been best friends since we were 15 and haven’t lived in the same place since we were 16. We have spent years driving or flyi...

I designed a shawl for my mom after years of her dropping hints and me never having the time - nothing like writing a thesis to help you find time for things you shouldn’t be doing, amirite? So I made the Debra Peacock Tail Shawl for my mom and grandma began the pouting and sighing until I assured her that one was on the way, designed especiall...

I have become slightly obsessed with peacock feathers since I knit the snow peacock by Tonks a few years ago as a wedding present for my sister-in-law. My mom loved it and hinted at every special occasion that she would like a shawl with a peacock motif. I decided to try my hand at designing one specially for her with my own version of a peacoc...

The Mila Sweetpea Dress was inspired by my little one, Mila, whom I call “Sweetpea.” It is a great dress for the spring or summer and is adorable in almost any variation of yarn. The dress is worked from the bottom up and includes scalloped edging, eyelet diamonds, a flouncy full skirt, empire waist, belt loops, and a ruffled neckline.

UPDATE 07/30/2014: The pattern has been updated to include 4 sizes (baby through big headed adults), 3 yarn weights (fingering, sport, worsted), and charts for “Fck Cancer,” “Fight Cancer,” and “Cancer Sucks” for all sizes as well as “Cancer Schmancer” for sizes M & L in fingering and L in sport.

The Morgan Bohemian Hat is a super slouchy, super cute topper for babies, kids, and adults. It’s a fun and easy pattern to make and knits up really quickly.

The rug squares are really easy to make and are great portable projects. This is a perfect way to use up all the scratchy acrylic yarn you bought before you knew any better!

The Beatrix Flower Headband is an adorable accessory that knits up quick and makes a great gift.

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