Stratosphere is an easy Shetland lace stole named for the incidental music over the end credits of the early 1950s television space opera series Space Patrol, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Shetland lace.

Babbage is a heavy unisex scarf made with bulky yarns and wool cogs and gears, finally using the crocheted cogs I designed way too many years ago.

The orb-weaver is a common type of large garden spider found worldwide, some spectacularly colored and spiked, and all builders of spiral webs.

Sleepwalk is a long, cozy garter stitch shawl in muted colors. Use the suggested yarns or dig around in your yarn stash. Grab a 100 gram hank of flecky hand-painted fingering yarn and see what you’ve got that coordinates.

On the television series Babylon 5, Z’ha’dum is a dead world on the edge of the galactic rim, believed to be the homeworld of an ancient race known as the Shadows. They warred with other species in the belief that this would encourage evolutionary advances in the younger races, wiping out whole galaxies with only the strongest surviving.

In a strange fit of nostalgia recently I went on a Google search for 1980s afghans looking for something goofy and fun and only found classic afghan patterns done in gross colors that only matched Grandma’s chintz sofa you had completely blocked from your memory or your mom’s Southwestern craze where overnight everything became dusty mauve and ...

Named for the brains of Isaac Asimov’s robots and Star Trek TNG’s Soong-type androids, Positronic is a squishy garter-stitch scarf with an easy shape and flashy graphics.

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Lunch Hour is the perfect gift for anyone who loves to combine sandwiches and baths. Roll a fancy slab of soap up in it and your holiday gift-giving list will magically have one less person on it. It may also imply that you’re perfectly wiling to give them a good scrub, so watch out.

Moonworts are ferns of the genus Botrychium. The name comes from the Shetland fern lace patterns in the shawl, plus it’s knitted from a moonlight-colored yarn (that’s a fancy description for “ordinary gray”). There’s also the added bonus that I get to use the word “wort” in polite company.

Crocheted cog wheels, for those of you who have a kinky fetish for clockwork unmentionables, feel the need for steampunk table linens, or want a dress trimming to honor your robot overlords.

Frankenmitts, since they’re neither gloves nor mittens but an unholy melange of both!

Perfect project if you have big fake hair, dreadlocks, or just need to let steam come out of the top of your head from time to time.