Our store is filled with dozens of creatively dyed and painted yarns that are beautiful in the skein, but give unpredictable effects when knit. We needed more patterns that could easily and reliably channel wild color energy into beautiful fabric! The patterns here were inspired by those yarns.

Why test tube? First, because the sock is shaped like one, and second, because it began as an experiment in making samples to fit weirdly arched mannequin feet.

Do you need a completely unique gift for someone in a medical or biological field? This easy colorwork hat would be perfect for a birthday, holiday, graduation, thank you, or congratulatory gift for your favorite…

Polar Nights is the third in my series of “button landscape” hats that use simple stitches to create a themed setting to display your favorite buttons.

A delightful button landscape hat for children! You may remember my previous design The Highway Hat with a street -- we now have a waterway expansion!

Throw in your wildest variegated yarns and odd bits of stash! Linen stitch has an uncanny ability to create attractive fabric from random colors.

A meditative knit that brings harmony to discordant yarns.

A color-grid design with just knits and purls!

A simple lace pattern makes a graceful spiral.

Easy stitches to show off complicated colors!

Entrelac is French for “interlace” because the fabric has a basketweave texture formed by rows of small rectangles knitted onto each other. Most entrelac projects include triangles to fill in the edges, but this cowl uses only rectangles because I love the pointy “sharktooth” look and find it relaxing to just knit rectangles. Entrelac may seem ...

An easy, reversible spiral-striped slouch hat.

Why test tube? First, because the sock is shaped like one, and second, because it began as an experiment in making samples to fit weirdly arched mannequin feet.

Why test tube? First, because the sock is shaped like one, and second, because it began as an experiment in making samples to fit weirdly arched mannequin feet.

Why test tube? First, because the sock is shaped like one, and second, because it began as an experiment in making samples to fit weirdly arched mannequin feet.

This wrap was inspired by “pinwheel” techniques from designers Lily Chin and Lorna Miser. It’s an easy knit that shows off the yarn really well. It’s in garter stitch, there are only two pattern rows, very basic stitches, and no seams. It’s done as a series of triangles, each joined to the next with a decorative “pick up and knit” row. Slip sti...

This hat was inspired by watching the fascination of small boys discovering our store’s button display. While mothers are browsing yarns and patterns, their little boys eagerly examine the assortment of children’s buttons, naming and pointing to their favorite vehicles and animals. This hat gives them a fitting landscape to populate with their ...