Laura Bailes
Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Ankle Sock
These socks are written for a 64 stitch sock, but the pattern repeat can be placed on any size sock so feel free to alter your stitch count!

Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
A simple pair of fingerless mitts that end before the fingers so that they don’t interfere with knitting whilst you’re wearing them or can be worn underneath full length gloves or mittens to keep your hands extra toasty!

Knitting: Throw
Snuggle up under a true treasure, a squishy blanket made from all of your favourite scraps. The connected blanket is everything I love about scrappy blanket knitting. Ease, rhythm and the calm meditation of a pattern that I can memorise and pick up and put down at any point without loosing where I am.

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Inside Amy’s Boots is a sock pattern with a few stripes and charted colourwork, perfect for colourwork beginners or those that just want something a little witchy in their boots!

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Friendship Links socks are a simple patterned sock where the patterning is only worked down the front of the leg and top of the foot. The pattern is created using knit and purl rounds and chains created with slipped stitches and purl bumps.

Knitting: Cuffs
The FestiCuffs are a fingerless and thumbless cuff, with fold over ribbing at the top. Instructions are included for an optional crochet edging and finger loop.

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
This is a stranded colourwork sock pattern with written instructions based on a 64st sock. However the pattern can be worked on any multiple of 8sts so is adjustable for fit.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The Road to Perth shawl is a large shawl designed to use almost all of two skeins of fingering weight yarn (one of each colour) and is knit flat, written out in eight sections. Each section represents an hour of my journey from my home town of Lowestoft to Perth in Scotland, the trip that I will take to get to Perth Festival of Yarn.

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Ness Point socks are a simple patterned sock where the patterning is only worked down the front of the leg and top of the foot. The pattern is created using purl rounds to create ridges that are then shaped by increases and decreases.

Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Winged Geillis is named for the character Geillis Duncan in the television series Outlander, who was accused of turning into a winged creature when on trial for witchcraft.

Knitting: Cowl
The South Beach Cowl is a basic cowl shape with charted colourwork and works well with two starkly contrasting colours. Worked in DK weight yarn it knits up into a super squishy accessory perfect for those windy beach walks.

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
A simple sock design using the textured twisted rib round from the Show Us Your Scraps! Fingerless mitts pattern. Designed to be worked with 5 x 20g minis, these socks are a fabulous way to use up those wonderful minis you want to show off! This is an adaptable almost vanilla pattern, and because of this it is easy to swap in your favourite toe...

Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
A simple design to best showcase those wonderful minis that we all know and love. This pair of fingerless mitts are a way to zone out with your knitting, by letting your minis speak for themselves. With each stripe on the pair you will need less than 5g of sock weight yarn, so grab your scraps and use up all those leftover beauties that you wer...