This textured stole consists of a main central pattern bracketed asymmetrically with plain chevron twist-stitch rows that are deconstructed versions of the main pattern. Rick rack rib adds a decorative, no-roll touch to the edging. It’s extra long for wrapping around multiple times, but can easily be shortened, widened, or narrowed to according...

I love the architectural and art deco-like effect of this cable pattern, which I discovered in one of Barbara Walker’s collections of knitting stitch patterns. This cable pattern was designed to be knit bottom-up, so normally a scarf with the pattern at both ends would be knit in two pieces and grafted together in the middle. I wanted to revers...

A team sailing back from the North Pole encountered frost flowers growing on the frozen sea “like a meadow spreading off in all directions.” I’ve always loved the old frost flowers lace pattern and wanted to design a shawl with a large central panel of them, so here you have the Sea Meadow Shawl. An insert of the lace pattern reappears near the...

Many of us who spin don’t always spin yarns destined for a specific knitting project, and we often produce less than sweater quantities of a particular yarn. I designed this ruana as a canvas to show off a variety of handspun yarns in one project. A commercial yarn served as the main color, to provide a unifying and consistent background agains...

Crime Scene is quick and easy to get away with using roving or combed top about 1” wide, or very bulky yarn holding multiple strands together and a 20 mm hook as needed to meet gauge. Pattern is written using American terms and is crocheted from the center top of the head down. Finished (unblocked, as shown) dimensions are approximately 106.5 c...

Crime Scene is a darkly humorous little area rug that isn’t murder to knit: it’s quick and easy to get away with using very bulky yarn (doubled, if necessary) or unspun roving. The usual finishing techniques of pick-up-and-knit or single crochet didn’t produce quite the right “chalk outline” effect I was looking for, so I devised a quick and si...