Camille Descoteaux

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Earflap Hat, Beanie, Toque
Flaptastic is a cute lightweight hat with a double layer brim with earflaps. The inner brim is knitted in ribbing for elasticity, while the rest of the hat is knitted in stockinette stitch to preserve the simple and effortless look. The earflaps are created with german short rows, so no need to pick up stitches to work them afterwards! The brim...
Knitting: Pullover
Samuelle is a baby/child sweater knitted in the round from the top down, featuring a faux buttonband made with textured broken rib and bobbles, and a raglan rib detail that continues on the body. It looks like a fancy cardigan, but it’s just a simple sweater! Fun fact : This is my first design inspired by my daughter, Samuelle :)
Knitting: Pullover
Somnambule is a very cozy and oversized sweater, featuring a bubble stitch motif, worked with two different yarns. The body of the bubbles is knitted with Merino Bouclé by La Bien Aimée, to create a soft and dreamy texture while the background of the bubbles and the ribbing details are worked with Corrie Worsted to give structure to the garment...
Knitting: Pullover
Primaire Pullover is a simple staple sweater worked from the top down, using a contiguous shoulder construction, which means the upper sleeves are worked at the same time as the rest of the yoke (no set-in sleeves!). Choose your favorite DK weight (or fingering+mohair combo!), add stripes, colourblock, colourwork, or just knit it plain : it’s t...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Diatom is a triangular shape shawl, not too deep but with a decent wingspan. It is knit from the top down in two-colour brioche with some eyelets and a cute picot edge.
Knitting: Pullover
Vex is simple staple striped sweater worked from the top down. The upper body is worked flat to create the V-neck and the sleeves are constructed using a contiguous method. The rest of body and the sleeves are worked in the round. There are two versions for you to choose from : one cropped and one regular length with A-line shaping.
Knitting: Tee
Knitting: Pullover
Plus1 is a circular yoke sweater knitted from the top down, featuring stranded colourwourk across the chest, upper arm and wrists. It’s the perfect pattern to showcase handspun yarn if you have some in your stash.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
Stamina is a small blanket (baby blanket) meant to use all your 24 or 25 minis from your advent calendar. All of the 24 triangles are knitted separately then sewn together to create an hexagon, and the border is worked by picking up stitches all around the blanket. There are two options for the border; an i-cord border (meant to use one 20g min...
Knitting: Cardigan
Ormus a hooded oversized cardigan with an all-over waffle texture. It is knitted from the top down and stitches are picked up to work the sleeves, hood and button band. The stitch pattern is very easy to remember and requires no purling when worked flat. This means that you will only need to purl a little bit while working the sleeves in the ro...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Shako Bouclé is a super simple hat worked from the top down. First, the crown and the body of the hat are worked in stockinette in the round. Then the folded brim is knitted in 1 x 1 rib. The bouclé yarn that is recommended for this hat creates the most perfect and squishy fabric.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Seigle is super cozy hat featuring a big squishy folded brim and textured cables merging into a nice star-shape crown. After knitting the twisted rib, cast-on stitches are picked up while knitting to fold the brim, which means there’s no sewing required.
Knitting: Cardigan
Lundi is a two-colour brioche raglan cardigan, knitted from the top down. The speckled yarn is used on the outside of the cardigan to show off the colours and the suri yarn is on the inside for maximum comfort. This cardigan is just the perfect knitted hug you need on gloomy days and that’s why it’s called Lundi (Monday).
Knitting: Pullover
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Bishie was created for TwistX 2020 in collaboration with La Maison Tricotée, a local yarn store in Montreal.
Knitting: Pullover
Plekie is a drop shoulder top down sweater with a big cozy turtleneck and cute braids along the shoulders and sleeves. There’s short row shaping at the shoulders to raise the back of the garment, and also at the bottom of the sweater to make the back a little longer. Plekie is meant to be worn with a good amount of positive ease at the bust, bu...
Knitting: Tee
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Pullover
Pizzelle is a top-down yoke sweater featuring stranded colorwork and delicate knit and purl texture. The motif is easy to memorize and quite addictive. You won’t get bored knitting this sweater!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Clovis is a simple hat with a cute texture and a folded brim. The stockinette brim is folded towards the inside and the cast-on edge is picked up while knitting so that you don’t have to sew anything after finishing. It’s that easy!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Cardigan
Knitting: Pullover
Charsi is a top-down raglan sweater, with a slipped stitch motif, long fitted sleeves with folded cuffs and a cropped body length. It’s the perfect sweater to use those forgotten variegated skeins in your stash!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Have you ever wanted to do cables and colorwork at the same time? This worsted weight hat is the perfect project to combine both techniques. It might be scary, but if you give it a try, you’ll find your way through this mythical forest called Entwood.
Knitting: Pullover
Two years ago, I published my first pattern ever : the Alaska hat. Recently, I felt like this tree pattern that I had created a while ago had to be on a sweater. So here we are! Alaska is a seamless top down raglan sweater, with a cropped length and fitted 7/8 sleeves. First, you’ll knit the top part of the raglan back and forth. Then, you’ll k...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Oupepe is a triangular shawl knit from the top down. Wider and shallower than classical triangular shawls, its shape is closer to a crescent shawl. The applied i-cord border allows you to carry your yarn along the side, without having to cut it in between sections, which is perfect if you don’t like to weave in to many ends. With its chevrons, ...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
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Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Inspired by northern lights in Alaska.