Regular geometric shapes and short runs of each colour make these mittens easy enough for someone relatively new to stranded knitting, while being interesting enough for a more advanced knitter.

Columns of twisted-stitch ribbing swirl around ‘knots’ to create the wood-grain texture in these gloves. Like real wood, the knots are not identical in the two gloves.

Christmas stockings are a fun project, especially since they don’t have to fit anyone, and you only have to make one of them!

Note: This pattern contains both fingering weight and bulky-weight versions of the cowl. Gauge above only lists the fingering version. See notes below for more.

Four-strand cables, borrowed from an Aran sweater, ornament this casual Pom-Pom-topped hat. The cable strands flow smoothly out of the ribbing and interlock to form columns running up to the top, looking intricate while remaining intuitive and satisfying.

A stranded fingerless mitt pattern to help use minis and leftovers of sock and fingering yarn! As written, these mitts use 7 different colours of yarn, but less than 20 grams of each one.

I have knit this pattern but it has not been tested by other people yet. If you have any questions or comments on the pattern, please let me know.

Although I have knit this pattern multiple times, it hasn’t been tested by other people, which is why it’s currently being offered for free. If you have nay questions or comments on the pattern, please let me know.

These mittens were created for L’Ourse Qui Danse alpaca ranch, for their dyeing students to show off their work. Even if you don’t have dye class results to showcase, this is a good project for using up small amounts of fingering-weight yarn. The sample was knitted in 5 colours, but the pattern could be done in anything from 3-4 colours to 20. ...

A basic tam in reverse stockinette with cabled patterning. Croi means ‘heart’ in Gaelic, and the cabled knots look like a ring of hearts around the tam.

A straightforward garter-stitch scarf, worked sideways, with contrasting short-row accents. A good pattern for an initial venture into short rows. Because the scarf is worked sideways, there are a lot of stitches per row. I would recommend using a circular needle of 24”/60 cm or longer to knit this.

Inspired by the traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs, this version uses stranded knitting and embroidery to create ornaments for Easter or Christmas decoration. Each egg uses roughly 20-25 yards of yarn, so a great way to use up small amounts of leftovers. The samples were knit in Palette, in serrano, grass, turmeric, black, and white.

Inspired by Bargello embroidery, the top of the tam has almost a floral pattern. This tam uses only one color per round. A variation of False Flame stitch is used to create the pattern.

Inspired by pictures of some pinballs in Piecework magazine, I made a version of my own for an ornament swap. It’s a pretty quick knit, and great for using up small amounts of fingering weight yarn. I used leftovers of two colors from another project.

It wasn’t intentional, but the tam came out looking good on both the right and wrong sides. Decide which way you like it, or weave in ends really carefully and wear it both ways.

Mittens with sheep and flowers in a field. Stranded patterning with details worked in duplicate-stitch embroidery. Small quantities of several colors of yarn are used for the patterning, ideal for leftovers from a few previous projects.

The size of this shawl is easily altered by doing more repeats of the body pattern, or working with a larger yarn and needles.

Stranded gloves with a snowflake pattern. Back and palm are different, and reversed for left and right hands. Separate graphs are given for right and left hands.

The pattern is written for an 8” palm, but there are notes on resizing for a smaller or larger hand.

I used a shade under 200 yards total of DK weight alpaca yarn from my stash for these gloves, 100 yards of each color or a bit more should be sufficient, but if you want to make them larger, you will need more.