Below you’ll find a collection of my favourite knitting patterns I’ve designed over the years, which are now all available for free!
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The Bobble Ridge Shawl is my latest collaboration with The Blue Brick. Using one of their Mammoth Huron MCN Gradients, tiny needles, and a heck of a lot of bobbles and texture, it’s a fun shawl (scarf?) that’s easy and casual to wear.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Knit Front and Back, Make One Left, Bobbles
Instructions: Written and Charted
Yarn: 800 yds fingering weight
Needles: 3.0mm circular or straight needles
The Fading Plaid Scarf is a collaboration with The Blue Brick. Using one of their Muskoka Luxe Gradients, it uses only knit and purl stitches to mimic plaid, it’s a fun shawl (scarf?) that’s easy and casual to wear.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Make One Left
Instructions: Written and Charted
Yarn: 525 yds dk weight
Needles: 3.5mm circular or straight needles
The Fading Guernsey Cowl is a collaboration with The Blue Brick. Using one of their Simcoe Worsted Gradients, it uses only knit and purl stitches to create a bandana style cowl with tons of texture.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Make One Left and Right, Knitting in the Round
Instructions: Written and Charted
Yarn: 300 yds worsted weight
Needles: 4.0mm 24” circular needles
The Urban Aran Mitts are a collaboration with Julie Asselin. Using their fibre-dyed Nurtured, these take cables to a new level by bending them!
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Make One Left and Right, Cables
Instructions: Written with Charts required
Yarn: 130-150 yds worsted weight
Needles: 4.0mm and 4.5mm dpn’s or long circular for magic loop
The Arrowpath Shawl is a collaboration with Julie Asselin. Using two skeins of Leizu DK, it uses only knit and purl stitches to create an interestingly striped shawl knit side to side.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Make One Left and Right, K2tog, Yo, Centered Double Decreases
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 520 yds dk weight
Needles: 5.0mm circular or straight needles
The Gatekeeper’s Cabled Mitts is a collaboration with Julie Asselin, using their their fibre-dyed Nutured, and were inspired by an iron gate I saw in an alleyway downtown.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Make One Left and Right, Twisted Stitches
Instructions: Written with Charts required
Yarn: 130-150 yds worsted weight
Needles: 4.5mm dpn’s or long circular for magic loop
Granular is a collaboration with Viola Yarns, using their Shadow DK, a British sourced wool. This triangular shawl features bands of interesting textures and a unique construction. The shawl is started from the top centre and worked diagonally for the right half. Stitches are then picked up to be worked sideways, creating the left half of the shawl, causing the bands of texture to appear at a different angle.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Increases, Twisted Stitches, Yo and Picking Up Stitches
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 927 yds dk weight
Needles: 4.5mm circular or straight needles
The Mistake Lace Shawl is the ultimate head scratcher, for knitters who like a challenge and zen repetition simultaneously. Although it is a one row pattern, it’s based on sequence knitting theory, so the repetition causes the stitches to misalign in a way you’d never expect! It creates an extremely lightweight fabric, using a very small skein of yarn from Riverside Studios - the single skein of Merino Singles Lace only weighs 57g.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Decreases and Yo
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 412 yds lace weight
Needles: 4.0mm circular or straight needles
The Speckle and Stripe Shawl is a collaboration with Estelle Yarns. Using three skeins of a beautiful wooden spun GOTS-certified wool, this shawl blends two very different techniques - Brioche and Mosaic knitting are used to transition between pairings of colours.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Increases, Slipped Stitches, Yo and Brioche Knitting
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 900 yds worsted weight
Needles: 4.0mm, 4.5mm, and 5.0mm circular or straight needles
The Fleur de Lis is a collaboration with Artful Yarns. Using dipped stitches, it makes the most of that single busy skein of yarn you might have by stretching the colours into beautiful little clusters.
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Multiple increases and decreases, Yo and Dipped Stitches
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 400 yds fingering weight
Needles: 4.0mm circular or straight needles
Dragon’s Wing is a collaboration with Dragon Strings. When asked what colours I liked, I of course said grey… Leave it to Annika to give me the ultimate grey? My response to a grey that also contained every other colour, was to include every type of stitch! Lace, Garter Stitch, Wrapped Stitches and a Picot Bind Off it is!
Techniques Used: Knit, Purl, Multiple increases and decreases, Yo and Wrapped Stitches
Instructions: Written
Yarn: 738 yds dk weight
Needles: 4.5mm circular or straight needles
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