This pattern contains instructions for the Backroad Scarf in three weights: worsted, Aran, and bulky; and 3 lengths: 68”, 90”, and a 50” buttoned cowl. It is one pattern, listed as an ebook to avoid accidental duplicate purchases and to make sure your library shows each weight.

Stranded colourwork cowl and mittens inspired by textiles of the Italian Renaissance. Set includes both patterns: the Firenze Cowl, a reversible cowl with different colourwork patterns on each side; and the Firenze Mittens, with separate charts for the small and large size.

One stitch pattern, two accessories. The stitch used for Galiano and Saturna looks a bit like mountains reflected in the water, and reminded me of the Gulf Islands, where I used to live. These designs are similar enough that I’ve bundled them together to give a fair price for those who would like to make both.

Celebrate spring with this collection of fiddlehead-themed accessories. Bold graphic bags, stranded colourwork, lace -- these patterns will show off your skills and help you learn new techniques.

Soft, cozy, covered in octopuses: what more could you want in a cowl? Worked in the round using stranded colourwork, the Octopus Cowl lets you show your love for these fascinating creatures while keeping your neck toasty warm. The pattern includes tips for choosing your yarn, plus links to tutorials showing how to trap long floats in stranded c...

Did you like the Enter Octopus hat but think, “What if I wanted octopuses on my hands?” Then this is the pattern for you. Named for a headland near my home on Vancouver Island, the Octopus Point mittens are worked in stranded colourwork using fingering weight yarn. The pattern has instructions for 4 sizes, with a slightly different chart for ea...

Now revised with instructions for 2 different gauges! I’ve also added a tip for avoiding the somewhat pointy crown some knitters have been encountering.

Note: Pattern now includes instructions for 23 sts to 4 in/10cm and 20 sts to 4 in/10cm.

Clean lines and comfortable style: Maple Bay is the sister pattern to Backstage Pass, worked in one colour with a tunic-length body and some A-line shaping for a bit of swing. The set-out sleeves give a dropped-shoulder look in a sleeker shape, while the seams provide structure. The combination of Shibui Knits Haven + Silk Cloud gives a supreme...

Slip-stitch pinstripes in lofty merino/cotton form a subtly embossed texture for this comfortable, live-in-able, #SizeInclusive pullover. A bit of A-line shaping and set-out sleeves give you room to move, while seams and a lateral braid at the back neck provide structure, and simple rolled edges finish the design.

This pattern and illustrated twisted stitch tutorial are also available for free to Studio members of Digits & Threads.

Have you ever thought, “You know what these feet need? More octopus.” If you have, or if you’re just thinking that now, then these are the slippers for you. Worked in stranded colourwork using fingering weight yarn, the Octopus Slippers pattern has instructions for 6 sizes, with a slightly different chart for each size. The pattern includes ill...

Named for a favourite local beach, the comfortable, customizable, #sizeinclusive Osborne Bay sweater is just the thing for getting out and about on a chilly day. Osborne Bay features an unusual cuff-to-centre construction with subtle A-line shaping, a split hem, and cables that flow up the sleeve into the mock turtle neck. The pattern includes ...

Stranded colourwork in a striking geometric pattern with a (Moebius) twist: Sound Check is given a half-turn before joining for a deep cowl with gentle folds that sits nicely against the neck. The pattern includes instructions for a wide single loop and a narrower double loop, as well as an illustrated tutorial for the crocheted provisional cas...

Backstage Pass: a simple, #sizeinclusive sweater with great details. Its cropped shape and shallow mock turtleneck make it the perfect piece to throw on when you need a pullover that works with your ‘going to the show’ outfit.

Reversible and multicolour-friendly, Plus One has so many styling options. The unusual crown shaping and doubled fabric results in a fashionable high profile when worn full length. For a closer fit, you can turn up the bottom, revealing a contrasting cuffed brim.

Waves of fluffy alpaca/silk and soft, rustically-spun Rambouillet, reminiscent of the strands of kelp that otters wrap themselves in to keep from drifting while they sleep. The Dreams of Otters pattern includes instructions for the regular single loop shown, a wider single loop, and a double loop, as well as an illustrated tutorial for the croc...

This pattern is available for free with purchase of the required yarn at your LYS or at shibuiknits

A little bit fancy, a little bit understated: Vantage’s twisted stitch top border and purl ridge body make me think of the view out over the sea to the Gulf Islands. Worked in soft, springy Mohonk Light, these stitch patterns let Jill Draper’s subtle colour variations shine.

Drapey, cozy, elegantly simple: Rapport is comfort knitting with a dramatic result. The design is completely reversible and symmetrical, so it looks good however you wear it. The combination of Shibui Silk Cloud and Tosh Merino Light yields a fabric that is soft and warm, with a comforting weight and flickering colour. To make Rapport, you need...

For several years, one of my closest friends lived in Asheville, North Carolina. About once a year I’d make the drive up to see her or stop in for a few days on my way back from the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. This shawl makes me think of those visits and that town: the twisted stitch pattern evoking the mountains and rivers of Appalach...

Kenneth Street Slippers are a quick and cozy project in a wide range of sizes, with nice details and a bit of short row shaping to keep these slippers on your feet. Each slipper is worked in one piece from beginning to end; the toe is worked in the round while the rest of the slipper is worked flat. The pattern includes tips for selecting your ...

Soft, casual, cozy: Dither is a quick, unchallenging knit with a dramatic result. This design uses the fauxtarsia technique to create marled and solid stripes in the same row, showing off Ansel’s gauge flexibility to great effect. Fully reversible, Dither is worked flat, and then joined with a reversible seam. To make this project, you will nee...

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Comfortable and stylish with a flattering drape, Strange Weather is an easy pullover that lets the yarn take centre stage. This sweater is worked flat in two pieces from cuff to middle, and joined with a three needle bind off at the centre front and back. Seam each side from shirttail shaping to cuff, work a simple garter stitch neckband, and y...

Sometimes all you want is some easy comfort knitting: something you don’t have to think too hard about, yet you know will give you a good-looking project you’ll use for years. Garter Puzzle Blanket is just the thing: a great expanse of squishy, woolly, garter stitch warmth that comes together into a beautiful throw with a modern, geometric styl...

Soft, light, and small enough to tuck in your pocket, Porcupine Ridge lets you transform a small amount of yarn into a bit of luxurious warmth to wear on chilly days. Named for the view from my sister’s home, this cowl’s stitch pattern evokes the mountains and rivers around Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Geometric lace makes the most of your yard...

Simple texture panels flank a chain of colourful chevron blocks for a striking geometric wrap. Polychrome Heart is worked in three parts, each building on the last, for a relaxing knit with enough going on to keep your interest. To make this shawl, you’ll need to know how to knit, purl, increase, decrease, and pick up stitches. Pattern includes...

The rich, flickering colour of Sincere Sheep Cormo Sport and the long, shifting changes of Spincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool play up and down this modern top. Designed to work with Dyed in the Wool’s colour changes, Wend is worked flat in four pieces, so there’s no worry about trying to match up stripes at the neck. This top features exposed sea...

Lofty, lush, and decadently soft, this generous cowl will keep you warm in the frostiest weather. Named for the bustling thoroughfare that runs through downtown Toronto, Spadina Avenue (pronounced with a long ‘i’) is worked in the round, with simple texture and subtle shaping for good coverage. The pattern instructions are written, not charted....

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Quick, small, and lightweight, these pretty slippers are the perfect thing to throw in your bag for a weekend away, and a great project for that skein of farm yarn that you just could not resist. The slippers are worked in one piece from the toe to the heel, with a bit of short row shaping to keep them on your feet. You then work around the edg...

Fauxtarsia Wave uses two different laceweight yarns held together and worked alone in the same row to give an intarsia effect without the intarsia. Increases and decreases shift the change point, forming waves that run the length of the shawl. Fauxtarsia Wave is worked from end to end. Pattern instructions are written, and include tips for adju...

Maai’s light, velvety fabric and Lunar’s luxurious sheen contrast in geometric patterns for this modern wrap. Velouria’s V shape is easily styled a variety of ways for an effortlessly dramatic look. Velouria is worked flat from the centre out: first you make the chevron ‘spine’, then you pick up stitches to work each side. The wings are worked ...

Desolation Sound’s shifting textures and geometric lines evoke mountains rising from the sea. The widening rib section shapes this deep cowl, giving it a narrower top that hugs the neck. Reversible cables act as buttonholes, allowing you to decide where to place your buttons—and how many to use—when the piece is done. These cables combine with ...

Speckles and solids and colourwork combine in this deep, generous cowl. Corrugated ribbing flows into a geometric colourwork pattern with shifting foreground and background, flowing back into corrugated ribbing. The size provides warming coverage, while shaping ensures that your cowl will sit nicely around your neck. Pattern is charted only. To...

Natural wool shades combine with Jill Draper’s hand dyed colour to make Quire, a geometric colourwork cowl with scrumptious texture. Pattern includes instructions for both single loop and double loop cowls, with directions for further adjusting the circumference. (Model is wearing the long/double loop size.) Colourwork stitch pattern is charted...

Revised December 2019, using Shibui Lunar + Pebble held together as MC. V2 uses a looser gauge than the original, with a narrower double loop size.

This pattern is part of the Slouches Collection.

Monochrome stripes in different yarns give texture to this exquisitely soft, slouchy cowl. Short row wedges shape the cowl’s folds. The shorter size is a lovely, light cowl for crisp days, while the deeper size shown gives more coverage, and can also be worn wrapped around the neck and pinned. Slouch Cowl is worked in the round from the bottom ...

This pattern is part of the Slouches Collection.

This pattern is part of the Slouches Collection.

This pattern is part of the Slouches Collection.

A fun knit with a stylish result, Flaneur was designed to show off the best characteristics of June Cashmere DK. This luxuriously soft, cozy scarf is bias knit for maximum drape, with textured zigzags taking advantage of the great stitch definition and stripes to let you play with the range of colors – all in a project that looks more complicat...

Cool, flowing linen contrasts with the sheen of merino/silk in this generous warm-weather wrap. The slight bias of Saltmeadow takes full advantage of linen’s drape while textured ridges show off its crispness. To make Saltmeadow, you will need to know how to increase, decrease, and slip stitches. The pattern instructions are written only, and i...

Dionisio Point is named for a park at the north end of Galiano Island, off the west coast of Canada, where I used to live. After Christmas, my uncle, aunt, and I would sometimes hike out there to stand on the rocks, the trees behind us and the wind in our faces. We’d sip something warming from a thermos and look out at the ocean, watching the s...

Contrasting textures add an extra dimension to the simple, elegant colourwork pattern of Tempered. Matte against lustrous; tweedy recycled silk/merino/cashmere against the sheen and halo of kid mohair/silk: the yarns dance together to create an airy, soft fabric that plays with the light.

Fissure is worked from end to end, the light fabric and bias-knit sections providing movement and drape. Uneven zigzags play with the slowly evolving stripes, while contrasting short rows give a bit of curve to the middle of the shawl. To make this shawl, you will need to know how to knit, purl, yarn over, ssk, and k2tog. Pattern instructions a...

Ministik 2 is inspired by a bird sanctuary near my aunt and uncle’s home in Alberta, Canada; the sanctuary’s name, ‘Ministik’, comes from the Cree word for island. The twisted stitch pattern mimics the wavelets on the water in summer and on the snow during their extraordinarily cold winters. This hat is worked in the round from brim to crown, u...

Simple, satisfying garter stripes accented with a slip-stitch colourwork band make for a warm and eminently squishable blanket, perfect for curling up with a good book or (of course) another knitting project. It seems only fitting to name this blanket for the spicy, comforting, many-ingredient stew that is a staple of fundraisers and social gat...

Knit up using one skein of June Cashmere lace, this stylish hat is worked in the round from brim to crown. A turned hem adds stability to the brim while short-rows enhance the slouch, giving a light, warm, incredibly soft hat that fits in your pocket.

Now available as a Knitmastery interactive pattern!

Slipped stitch columns and intarsia stripes take advantage of the geometry of bias knitting to create a striking, generous wrap. The intarsia stripes are not difficult to work, and the yarn is carried up the back, so there are few ends to weave in. Line and Shadow uses knit, purl, yarn over increases, decreases, and slipped stitches. The main y...

Born at Sea was originally designed for my nephew, who was born on the west coast of Canada, and was inspired by the Pacific Ocean. Born at Sea uses 2 stitch cables and a texture pattern of knit and purl stitches; instructions for working 2 stitch cables without a cable needle are provided in the pattern notes. This pattern includes instruction...

Snowchaser uses slipped stitches to create a subtle texture that is pleasing on both sides of the fabric. The scarf is worked from side to side to create long stripes that follow the pattern repeats. There is a garter stitch selvedge at each end, along which you add an attached I-cord edging once the main body of the scarf is nished. This patte...

I came up with Meltwater when I picked up a skein of Quarry to try, playing around with small cables in big yarn. The yarn made such great ribbing and wonderful cables that I decided to use both and make a generous, squooshable scarf with an integrated i-cord border along each side. This pattern uses knit, purl, slipped stitches, and 2-stitch c...

Purchase the set of Circular Reasoning and the Contrariwise Hat for $12; discount applied automatically at check-out. If you’ve already bought Contrariwise, the discount will be applied to your purchase of this pattern.

Inspired by the bold graphics and sharp Mod fashion of the 60s and 70s, the Ready Steady Go set make the perfect accessories for heading out into the concrete jungle. Pattern includes instructions for a hat, mittens, and a short cowl, long cowl, and full length scarf. All pieces are knit in the round; instructions are charted.

Contrariwise has a coordinating double loop cowl, Circular Reasoning. You can buy the set of both patterns for $9; discount applied automatically at check-out.

Brightsides is worked from the centre out with a slipped stitch texture and garter stitch stripes, ending in a garter mosaic stitch border. With mosaic stitch, you work with one colour at a time, slipping stitches in the other colour, so it’s an easy way to get a two-colour pattern without stranding. If you can knit, purl, and work in the round...

Designed to go with the Backroad Hats and the Backroad Scarves, the Backroad Mittens use the same stretchy slip-stitch rib, and are designed for worsted weight yarn. The mittens are worked in the round from the cuff, with a thumb gusset at the side; the gusset instructions are both written and charted. The mitten body is finished with a 3-needl...

Original version available through Interweave Knits. Updated version with charts as well as written instructions now available as a Ravelry download. Matching mitten and scarf patterns are also available. You can purchase the set for $16; discount automatically applied at checkout.

Inspired by the clean lines and graphic style of Art Deco design, the Jazz Age Mittens come in two sizes with separate charts for each size. Worked in Sunday Knits 3-ply light sport weight yarn, these mittens can be made with two 50g skeins, or add a 20g skein or two for a contrasting cuff. The small mittens are shown in Nirvana in Rain and Ang...

Inspired by the textiles of the Italian Renaissance, the Firenze mittens come in two sizes, with separate charts for each size. The mittens have a Scandinavian thumb and braiding on the cuffs, and are finished with a three-needle bind off. A matching cowl pattern is also available; both patterns can be made with 1x50g and 1x20g of each colour o...

Inspired by the textiles of the Italian Renaissance, the Firenze Cowl is a reversible, double-layer cowl in stranded colourwork. It uses an an original colourwork chart representing seaweed and waves, and a variation on a traditional colourwork pattern for the vines. The Firenze cowl is worked in the round from a provisional cast on, which is g...

Now with instructions for sport or fingering weight yarn!

Looking for a quick, cozy knit for yourself or a last-minute gift? The Saturna infinity scarf fits the bill nicely. Saturna is made in a plied, lofty, Aran weight wool for softness, stitch definition, and squishable warmth. This scarf is worked in the round with rolled edges, giving it a polished look with minimal finishing; instructions for an...

Galiano is a reversible moebius cowl that is deeper and narrower than most moebius scarves or cowls, so that it can be worn in one layer around the neck or up over the head like a hood. It starts with Cat Bordhi’s moebius cast on and moves out from there in a reversible geometric stitch to a contrasting border. Instructions are given for both a...

Silk and beads evoke the glamour of the 20s in this rectangular lace shawl. Knit from the ends towards the middle and then grafted using Kitchener stitch, this shawl comes in two sizes, with instructions for adjusting the length. (Sample shown is the small size.) Beads add movement and a bit of sparkle to the light, open lace border, which flow...

Lulu is a reversible moebius cowl that is deeper and narrower than most moebius scarves or cowls, so that it can be worn in one layer around the neck or up over the head like a hood. It starts with Cat Bordhi’s moebius cast on and moves out from there in a reversible geometric stitch to a welted edge with an I-cord bind off. Lulu is made in a p...

Yarn: 1 skein each of MC & CC. Shown in Boothbay Blue & Oyster, size large.

A splash of colour enlivens the pale cottons and linens of summer. The tussah silk single is a slightly fuzzy heavy lace/light fingering/European 4-ply weight with a bit of grip, and gives this scarf a lovely, rustic texture. Light and comfortable to knit when it’s just too hot for wool, this scarf is the perfect summer accessory. This pattern ...

A bunny soft, fitted neckwarmer worked in a simple lace pattern with integrated I-cord edging. It buttons up to allow a snug fit without stretching the angora, and has a reinforced button band and one-row buttonholes for strength.

Stranded colourwork gives this cowl extra warmth and a thick, squooshy texture, while the fiddleheads remind us that spring is just around the corner. The picot hem gives a decorative edge, and is sewn down using live stitches to keep the edge stretchy. Instructions and a photo tutorial for this technique are provided.

Fiddleheads and flowers climb this drapey, lace cowl with optional beaded edging, which can be worn around the neck or framing the face, with or without a shawl pin to set it off. Beaded cast on and bind off are explained in the pattern. This project requires hard blocking to bring out the lace and reach the right dimensions.

This matching felted clutch and smartphone case set is worked in one piece from the top down, grafted shut, felted, then cut to make the two finished items. Stranded colourwork makes a sturdy fabric with a bold graphic design. This pattern requires you to carry unusually long floats, but if you catch the floats up frequently and in different pl...

Make a statement with this pretty, sturdy felted colourwork bag. Pattern starts with a provisional CO that is later closed with either Kitchener stitch or 3-needle BO; links to tutorials on these techniques are included. This pattern requires you to carry unusually long floats, but if you catch the floats up frequently and in different places s...

Coordinating Gimble mitten pattern available. Purchase the set for $9, discount applied at check-out. If you have already purchased Gyre, the discount will still be applied to your Gimble purchase.

Estonian-style mittens with a peasant thumb, worked in the round. Stranded colourwork has increases, decreases, and 2-stitch cables to give a Renaissance look and velvet-like texture. Pattern includes instructions for working 2-stitch cables without a cable needle. Colourwork is charted only. Pattern is written for working in the round with 2 c...

For this scarf, an illusion cube pattern made of knit and purl stitches flows into twisted stitch cables with an integrated I-cord edge, then back into the cubes. Pattern is charted and includes clear instructions for working 2-stitch cables without a cable needle. Worked in sport or DK weight yarn, this scarf is perfect for more temperate clim...

This soft, squishy cowl is worked in the round using the mosaic knitting technique to create a 2-colour pattern working with one colour at a time. The resulting fabric is thicker and cushier than regular stockinette fabric. The mosaic technique, the I-cord cast on and bind off, and the small amount of grafting used to finish the edges are all e...

This pattern uses about 5.5 plates of Unspun Icelandic, held double. To substitute a bulky or super-bulky yarn, you will need approximately 800 yards/730 m.

Aug. 3/15: New version released, with better wording, updated charts, new layout, and twisted yarn over increases for sharper corners. New version also corrects an error in the written instructions: where it read, “repeat rows 16-24”, it should have read, “repeat rounds 16-25.