Robin Allen
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Big Ol’ Hug is an ideal blend of squishy garter stitch and cozy tweedy yarn that wraps you in the softest, warmest embrace. This easy fireside knit features a core-warming bib that can be worn front or back, or flipped up over your head for a quick hood. The perfect accessory for a windy autumn stroll or a chilly office.

Knitting: Pullover
Wrapturous is a comfy, drapey, boxy, oversized V-neck pullover with deep drop shoulders and fitted sleeves. Easy to knit flat in pieces with i-cord edging that creates the perfect architectural detail at the seams and hems. Knit up in a supple and luxurious merino/silk mix, you’ll want to wrap yourself in this morning, noon, and night.

Knitting: Tee
With 3” of positive ease, this lacey little tee is perfect to layer over another t-shirt or tank top, or to slip over your bathing suit for a day at the beach.

Knitting: Earflap Hat, Beanie, Toque
Keep your auricles stylishly warm with this garter rib beanie worked all in one piece. Strategic increases and decreases create a whorled rib pattern that dips down over the ears creating a subtle earflap. In other words, an earflap hat that doesn’t require three separate pieces and mid-row cast-ons.

Knitting: Scarf
Shire is a heavily cabled scarf that uses 4-stitch cable crossings on both right and wrong sides to produce alternating bands of cables and lattice. And it’s reversible! Both sides look the same, but are not identical.

Knitting: Pillow / Cushion
Irene Adler. Her red fingernails. Those red lips. The little red Christmas gift she leaves for Sherlock on his mantle. Love and danger.

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Interesting knitting begins right away with a two-color corrugated ribbing. Following a plain round of knitting, the Norwegian-inspired hearts are wrought to life with stranded colorwork. After a two-color purl turning round, you’re on to the crown decreases, either in the contrasting color or in the main color.

Knitting: Cowl
A simple stranded cowl featuring an allover graphic star pattern. Pattern includes instructions for two versions--an Everyday version in worsted weight yarn and a Luxury version in yarns of cashmere and silk.

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A reversible hat that can be worn cable-side out, shown in Wool of the Andes Aurora Heather (green), or “squiggles” side out side, shown in Cascade 220 Fuchsia (pink).

Knitting: Hot Water Bottle
Reindeer under a starry sky animate this hot water bottle cozy with no shaping.

Knitting: Scarf
This scarf was inspired by one of the most famous houses designed by one of the most famous architects—Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like the house built partially over a waterfall, this scarf replicates the clean vertical lines of the house’s cantilevered terraces, softened by fringe that represents the flowing water below. The architect...

Knitting: Pullover
This design combines two of my favorite things—hearts and ornate iron scrollwork. As I am a knitter, not a smith, I have used my needles to forge yarn into a sweater.

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This sweet hat combines two of my favorite things—hearts and ornate iron scrollwork. As I am a knitter, not a smith, I have used my needles to forge yarn into a hat.

Knitting: Pullover
No cable needle required! The swirly design is achieved through increasing and decreasing.

Knitting: Scarf
This scarf began as a swatch for an interesting cable pattern I found in one of my stitch dictionaries. I think the idea was to either use one repeat of the cable in a panel of stitches or to space them on a background of reverse stockinette stitch. Not knowing any better, I worked one repeat after another, which turned out to make a pretty nic...

Knitting: Mittens
Aghaa’ is Navajo for wool, and Ála’ is Navajo for hands. Put them together like I did, and you have “wool hands.” Navajo has some rather complex word arrangements, so I don’t know if the name is correct, but like these mittens, it’s inspired.