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This unisex hat combines subtle slip stitch colourwork overlaid with flowing cables, and the result is unusual and eye-catching. The lower cabled band design is worked flat, then stitches are picked up around the top to work the crown in a single colour.

This fun cloche plays with construction and traditional stitches to create a striking effect.

I have made my partner a couple of my Hamilton hats now and I love how they feel in a squishy pure wool yarn but they are too big for me to wear comfortably.

Originally published in Knitting magazine.

This shawl is a great way to celebrate a beautiful skein of 4-ply yarn and to create something fabulous to wear on a special (or otherwise) occasion.

I love mini skeins, especially when I see a set looking like little jewels of yarn side by side, and that’s what inspired this shawl. I wanted to use small amounts of colourful yarn against a neutral background and create something that would work with a set of colours, your own pick and mix stripes and even as a stashbuster for the leftovers I...

This lacy 4-ply cardigan, is designed to be a layering garment that you can pull on over a dress or a tee shirt for a little extra warmth.

This relaxed aranweight slipover features a large central ribbed cable on the front and rib detail on round the armhole and neck.

This wrap features stripes of a lace mesh pattern and long end sections with an organic feel created

Named after Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest, this triangular shawl features botanical

This soft wide scarf offers warmth and glamour. It is worked from a provisional cast on at the center to give a symmetrical finish. The flower shapes in the lace are made using a gathered stitch.

This is the sister shawl to Into the Woods. That shawl is all over lace in a laceweight yarn. This one is smaller and uses 4-ply, as well as being worked in stocking stitch for a significant part before using the larger leaf motif from its big sister.

This is one of a series of shawls inspired by my wanders through the woods near my home.

November 2024 is Dementia UK’s Knitting Challenge Month so all proceeds from this pattern will go to the charity.

The back and sleeves have a simple narrow cable and moss stitch pattern and the fronts feature a quirky “heart” cable echoed in the buttons.

Yarn Fyberspates Vivacious 4 Ply

Yarn West Yorkshire Spinners The Croft

WITH ITS intricate stitches knitted in a gorgeous hand-dyed yarn, this

These top down socks feature a raindrop lace pattern and a short row rib heel.

Create yourself some summer plumage with a dramatic semicircular shawl featuring two bands of lace - a simple small leaf pattern and one with swooping curves and a pointed edging.

This gorgeous asymmetrical shawlette in ombré shades of the same wool is the perfect summer knit.

As new buds and shoots pop up all over the place, go green along with the rest of the world with this beautiful waterfall cardigan, perfect for layering.

From Knitting Magazine:

The stole is begun with a provisional cast-on and knit in two directions outwards. The lace pattern is presented both in charts and in written form.

The scarf has a reversible cable and moss design.

Time for some colourwork sock fun. Find you perfect sock colour combo and use this pattern to create matching socks or a contrast pair, as pictured, by starting the second one with Yarn B and reversing the colour changes.

The lace section of this wrap is actually based on the Shetland Print of the Wave patterns, but in a soft draping yarn like this one the stitches suggest spring flowers to me so I have adapted things slightly to

The shawl is shaped using wedges of stocking stitch and lace created with short row shaping. This is actually quite simple and fully explained in the pattern.

This wrap is worked from corner to corner, using increases and decreases to create the wrap shape.

This shawl begins with a garter tab and is worked flat, though circular needles are recommended to accomodate the large number of sts. The fuchsia leaf edging is added using the knitted-on method. The joining sts that connect the edging to the main body of the shawl are worked as decreases from the WS. Double yarnovers are worked as k1, p1 on t...

This pattern was first published in Knitting Magazine 179, April 2018.

This intricate lace shawl is worked in segments, using short row shaping to create the wedge shapes.

When you say you are going to make a long flat scarf by knitting in the round and then cutting your knitting, some people might think you are heading down a very wayward path indeed. But this is actually a simple and quick way to make a soft, lacy, fringed scarf.

Inspired by the magic tricks of Loki in Norse legends and the modern stories they inspire, this unisex cowl has its own bit of magic. It is a true moebius with no join and reverisble cables, so whatever way you twist it, the surface is the same.

Inspired by semi-precious gemstones and designed to show off a luxurious laceweight yarn, the Facet shawl is made up of three triangular panels featuring a small and then large diamond pattern.

Stole is made in two parts and grafted at the centre for symmetry.

Sometimes looking at a yarn will make a design pop almost fully formed into your mind.

Things I am always drawn to - symmetry, sunsets and striking colours. So creating these mitts was inevitable. The colourwork adds a pop of brightness on a grey day. Choose strongly contrasting colours for the best effect.

This one-skein aran cowl starts with a moebius cast on and finishes with a knit on Shetland “Doris” pattern edging. And it is all much simpler than it sounds.

A simple beanie with mock cables that grow like ears of corn, leaves or flames up the hand and thumb, giving a bit of extra stretch. It is named for Brigid the Celtic goddess of arts and crafts and blacksmithing.

This snug beanie features panels of a moss stitch variation to give a woven textured.

This cosy man’s beanie hat matches the Hamilton Handwarmers (men’s fingerless gloves) pattern, because the original recipient of the handwarmers decided he had a cold head as well.

Whether breakers spreading over the grey slate rocks projectiing out on the little beach below our Donegal house or relatively small ripples over colourful pebbles in the Carribean, I can spend ages watching waves breaking on stone.

At a yarn fair I fell in love with a deep blue 4ply wool/silk yarn which was crying out to be a shawlette. When I got home I realised the colourway was called “Night Sky” which took me back to my childhood living on a cliff over the Atlantic with little light pollution. We had deep dark skies with scatterings of stars.

Where I grew up there was a wide 3-mile strand (beach) where during spring tides the sea would go a long way out, leaving glistening ripples of damp sand, shells, seaweed and small pools of water.

Spotting the strong turquoise of a fragment of rope or fishing net poking out between the greys and browns of shingle or sand is a very strong image for me when I think about the sea shore.

This wide lace wrap was inspired by a hank of yarn that brought to mind stratified rocks and small rockpools in between like on the little beach, “the Creek”, below our house at Coolmore in Donegal. My doodling came up with the lace patterns here which lend themselves to a long draping stole.

The perfect spring time socks. Leaves grow up your feet and on out of your shoes.

The mock cables on these cosy mitts grow like ears of corn, leaves or flames up the hand and thumb, giving a bit of extra stretch. They are named for Brigid the Celtic goddess of arts and crafts and blacksmithing.

This semi-circular shawl is made using short row shaping to show the gradient of the yarn to best effect.

The ribbed sections on these socks are inspired by the shape of a pair of classic sneakers (I have a red pair, well I have several but I really like the red ones). You can choose to have empty eyelets or lace them with ribbon as on the left.

Keep your toes toasty with cable patterns inspired by vintage designs and argyle socks, complete with cabled heel detail.

In a family album there is a picture of my great-aunt Birdie in a smart close fitting cloche hat. I think the picture was taken in Donegal where we get plenty of strong winds and chilly weather. So I thought Birdie would have wanted a stylish and warm cloche and some smart mittens for her walks.

I’ve been doing some family history research recently especially around WW1 and come across old pictures of some of my 10 great aunts and grandmothers in a fabulous array of hats. I come from a long line of great hat wearers (including my sister above).

These retro styled men’s gloves – fingerless or full fingered – use a moss stitch variation to give a woven textured back with a smooth palm.

Drive the cold winter away with this cosy cowl in chunky wool.

The beech trees in Barnett Park and elsewhere near where I grew up are the inspiration for this long scarf using Victorian and Estonian leaf motifs.

The pattern as written will fit a hand of 22-23cm circumference below the fingers.