My “Save What You Love” shawl is a visual illustration of how our favorite science fiction universe treats the concepts of light, dark, and balance. The shawl explores how “light” and “dark, “good” and “bad” are just spectrums of a balanced whole.

The reaction of matter and antimatter is what propels a starship to faster-than-light speeds in popular science fiction. My hat was inspired by this concept, and uses the “reaction” of multidirectional knitting to showcase handpainted yarns. Since the pattern has three distinct sections, a variety of colors or miniskeins could also be used.

Those variegated yarns on the shelf always get me! They’re delightful to look at, easy to care for, and perfect for kids, but I’ve always had a hard time finding a pattern to showcase them…until I designed this blanket! The name came after the blanket was assembled, as the pattern of variegated yarn looks somewhat like the hyperspace effect fro...

The Rays of Light Quilt Blanket is a quilt-inspired stashbusting blanket, perfect for using up your scraps and leftovers, handspun, mystery yarns, single skeins, hanks of unknown yardage, strangely variegated yarns, etc. The pattern is designed to be knit on straight needles with a minimal number of stitches on the needles at all times, and is ...

I’ve been making varieties of this washcloth for several years – a broken rib body section with some sort of border. It’s my favorite: easy to knit, a pleasure to use, and pretty to look at. Here, the knitted-on border with short row corners and grafted ends provides a little spice. The name “El Rey Viejo” honors a friend’s father, for whom I f...

This is an asymmetrical crescent-shaped scarf/skinny shawl knit on the bias. The pattern is simple, and can be picked up and set down at a moment’s notice - perfect for knitting while watching TV, commuting, or having coffee with friends. Designed in particular to use handspun yarns, mystery yarns of unknown yardage, remnants, single skeins, bu...