Christa Wales
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Choose one of the coordinating colours in the Lake Knit Yarns Shoreline Worsted Mini Skein sets OR dig through your stash and find 25 grams of 6 colours of worsted weight yarn.

Knitting: Cowl
Just a little something that you can wear wherever. A nice light cowl for cold restaurants or summer campfire evenings. Designed with alternating blocks of a simple eyelet lace, it’s a quick and easy knit.

Knitting: Cowl
The Wild Tracks cowl is designed to use Lake Knit Yarns Mini skein sets. It looks great in either a gradient or contrasting colours. If you follow me on social media then you know that I love making tracks in the wilderness and this lace pattern reminds me of snowshoeing in fresh snow! This cowl is perfect for any time of year. The lace pattern...

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
My design this year for the 2020 Progress, Hope and Happiness Event, Tokyo bound, was started here in Canada, just before everything shut-down in response to Covid-19. My inspiration at first was all the athletes who participate in the Olympics and instead turned to everyone in the world suffering hardships during the pandemic. So my offer is H...

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Scarf
Do you like walking beside a river? Hearing the sounds of the water as it trickles over the rocks? I love being near water and at the end of winter listening to the water and seeing the ice as it melts away.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
I’m offering this pattern for free right now. For anyone who needs comfort during the Covid-19 crisis.

Knitting: Poncho
The perfect poncho to throw on over summer clothing. Knit at a loose gauge, using fingering weight yarn this poncho is ultimate summer layer.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Mini skeins always look so amazing grouped together in a small package but now that you have it what do you do? The Mini Skein Conundrum shawl is the answer to the mini-skein problem. Using 1 set of Lake Knit Yarns Mini-skeins and a full skein in a complimentary colour the Conundrum shawl is an asymmetrical triangle shawl that’s large enough to...

Knitting: Mittens
Have you ever challenged yourself to climb to the peak of a mountain and experienced the blissful feeling of reaching the top before heading down the other side? These companion mittens to the Climbing Mountain hat are less challenging than actually climbing a mountain. The Climbing Mountains mittens knit up quickly, using knit, purl, and slip ...

Knitting: Headband
Traditionally created in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, thrums use roving, knit together with worsted weight yarn to create a soft, warm, fleecy lining.

Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Scarf
A simple, symmetrical shawl knit from side to side, bordered by an edge of starry lace, like a band of stardust across the sky.

Knitting: Mittens
Looking for the warmest pair of mittens you’ll ever make? Traditionally created in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, thrummed mittens use roving, knit together with worsted weight yarn to create a soft, warm, fleecy lining to your mittens. A quick an easy pattern, you’ll have warm hands all winter long.

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Just a short paddle down the lake from my cottage are steep cliffs made of clay and sand. The water seeps down through the clay and drips out in tiny droplets across the face of the clay banks.

Knitting: Beanie, Toque
The Climbing Mountains Toque is perfect for those cooler days of fall and winter adventures.