12 Weeks of Gifting — Week 8: Powderbowl Cowl
This week, I’m suggesting you knit the Powderbowl cowl for someone you love. It’s a quick knit, and it’s easy, but it’s so interesting! The slipped stitches form a pattern that is easy to memorize, but also…
Twelve Weeks of Gifting, Week 7: Shattered Shale
This week’s discount pattern is the too-cool-for-school Shattered Shale Cowl. I loved challenge of adapting this woven slip stitch pattern into something that would really shine as a two-color repeat. It especially pleases me that I was…
Twelve Weeks of Gifting, Week 6: Glenborough
This week’s discount pattern is the wonderfully soft, wonderfully warm, wonderfully clever Glenborough Cowl. As we enter November, I think worsted-weight cowls are the right sort of gift knitting to be focused on. They offer lots of…
12 Weeks of Gifting Week 5: Woodleaf Cowl
I’m happy to have another chance to talk about the Woodleaf cowl. This one is a favorite of mine. I just love the way the leaves twine up the cowl (or, I suppose, down if you wore…
12 Weeks of Gifting, Week 4: Dinkins Bayou Cowl
This week’s gifting pattern suggestion is the Dinkins Bayou cowl. It’s named for one of my favorite places: a still, quiet, little inlet just off Sanibel Island — a place where egrets and manatees flourished among the…
12 Weeks of Gifting, Week 3: Wanderoo
This week’s discount pattern is the Wanderoo sock pattern, another pair of sport-weight socks made with that fabulous Gator yarn from Morehouse Farm. How providential that these socks are coming up just when I’ve been back to…
Introducing the Perseveration Cowl
Sometimes an idea won’t leave your brain. It takes up residence, perhaps rattles around a bit, changing shape, and eventually grows into something else. That’s how the Perseveration cowl came to be. I’ve been a bit obsessed…
12 Weeks of Gifting, Week 2: Wanderly
This week’s discounted pattern is another sock pattern, Wanderly. These socks, though, are made from sport-weight yarn, so they knit up quickly into the cushiest hiking socks ever. They are the perfect socks for all your loved…
A Shot in the Dark
I had an idea for a hat that was mostly dark, shot through with some light strands. There are several ways to accomplish this; I decided to play around with vertical stranding, taking it diagonal and seeing…
Paradise Lost
Do you have a place you love? Maybe it’s one you return to year after year, building layers of memories atop each other like decoupage. Maybe it’s somewhere you’ve only been once, but it stays imprinted on…
