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…
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…
Tips and Tricks for Devious Knitters: I-Cord Cast On
I know a lot of cast-ons, and they all have different advantages: Some are very firm, some are very stretchy, and some look fancy. The I-cord cast on has the advantage of looking very finished. It adds…
