Deirdre Darr
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Cowl
This cowl was designed to celebrate the vibrant energy of Vogue Knitting Live 2025. With its quick and simple construction, it’s perfect for showcasing bold, multicolored yarns. The pattern uses just two skeins of Keenan Hand Dyed Yarn SW Merino Bulky, and the result is a piece that lets the colors take center stage.

Knitting: Cowl
This design is a companion to the Back to School Hat. The Back to School Cowl is perfect for the teacher, school board member, principal, superintendent, or student in your life. It’s a fun, quick knit. A friend even suggested using a crazy multi-colored yarn instead of goldenrod to mimic those plastic-coated pencils that

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This hat is designed to be made with a strand each of bulky, sock, and mohair yarns. You can keep it tame or go crazy with the colors you bring together. And, here’s a secret, you can make it with whatever yarn you want. Two strands of worsted? Three strands of light fingering and a mohair? Just be sure your gauge is 3 stitches per inch.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
As part of the Fangirl Boomerang Fade Shawl there are instructions for how to create a Basic Boomerang Shawl using any weight yarn or needle size.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Have beautiful, hand dyed yarn and not sure how to use it? This simple fade shawl is a great way to show it off.

Knitting: Pixie Hat
This is the cousin of the Northern Pixie hat for Santa’s helpers, garden gnomes, or Tolkien dwarfs that are allergic to animal fibers or live where it’s just too darn hot to put felted wool on your head (I’m talking about you Memphis and Northern Mississippi). It’s worked in the round.

Knitting: Pixie Hat
Your whole family can be garden gnomes or Santa’s helpers in this fun, felted pixie hat. It’s worked in the round and can be made with or without earflaps and ties. The earflaps are knitted to the brim after completing the hat. Sizing is for the finished garment; the hat will be quite large before it is fulled/felted.