This cloche style hat has a wide hem that serves as a brim, warms the ears, and a contrast hem option.

This combination of ribs and welts has a herringbone appearence, but is stretchy enough to pull over your head, and elastic enough to be snug and warm.

This simple scarf pattern uses dropped stitches for an openwork effect with a crisp appearance. It works up quickly and makes a great spring or summer scarf.

Materials DK or Worsted weight yarn

This pattern uses garter rib to make a design that offers several variations on the basics. A beanie/slouchy hat gets slouchy by widening and narrowing the ribs and mittens can be shortened into fingerless mitts. Sizes toddler to adult.

Purl free!

This vest is worked flat and seamed but easily adapted to knit in the round to the armholes if you prefer.

This sweater starts at the bottom of the back, works up to the shoulder, then separates for the right and left fronts.

Errata: If your pattern doesn’t have a little revised September date in the lower right, then there is an error in Decrease Section 1. Rows 1, 5, 9, and 13 should read K1, yo, k2tog, K to 2 stitches before marker (instead of K to marker),K2tog, yo, slip M, work edging.

Sizes:

The hat is one size, but there is a beanie version and a slouchier version.

This pattern has both a worsted and a bulky version of the same cowl. Worsted is in Berocco Ultra Alpaca.

The hat features a subtle hugs and kisses ( X and O) motif - and earflaps to keep those little ears warm.

I have had questions about the difference in number of repeats for the smaller vs. larger sizes.

Finished Chest: 24 (26)”

Kombu is a fingering weight cowl that draws in a bit, but doesn’t feel like a turtleneck. It is light enough to wear indoors, or in early spring if you use a cozy yarn.

This quick and easy pattern is sized by changing needle size and gauge. Even a beginner can make it in a couple of evenings.

I wanted to design a scarf for the knitters I’ve talked to who like the look of some crocheted scarves, but don’t want to crochet. This scarf is worked long side to long side, with the tails left for fringe. I used three balls of Soft Linen (a wonderful yarn) but you could certainly use up stash with this.

The twisted stitches mimic cables and give the ribs an extra-stretchy quality. That makes the mitts snug enough for a range of hand widths.

The cables on this hat are not difficult to work, and merge into the decreases at the top.

The stitch pattern to this scarf is so easy it makes it a great entry level lace project. It has a great deal of lateral spread, so the cast on is fewer stitches than you might think. Also, worked at a tighter gauge, the stitch is still springy, but the yarnovers are less visible.

This sweater is knit in the round up to the underarm, then split into front and back and worked flat with short rows to shape the overlap neckline. There is no neck border, the buttons are decorative, not functional. Arms are picked up and worked from the shoulder to the cuff.

Fir Cone is a traditional Shetland lace pattern. It is another good pattern for beginner lace knitters, because the repeat is easily memorized, and the wrong side rows are plain purl. This pattern has a yarnover border to facilitate blocking -- the wires slide right through each hole.

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You can also do this pattern in DK wt for a 24 month size, but before you dismiss the idea of a baby sweater knit on size 2 (US) needles, let me reassure you. A baby sweater in sock yarn is not really any more work than a pair of socks. Maybe less. No grafting/kitchenering. (No seams, except for a three needle bind off at shoulders.) And best of...

Horseshoe Lace or Print of the Hoof is a traditional Shetland lace pattern.

This uses Silky Merino DK not the worsted.

This unusual cable is much easier to work that it appears. The cabling only happens every 12th round in each column.

A ribbed hat pattern with a twist, the ribbing moves a stitch to the right every few rounds. The sizes run from Extra Small, for a toddler, to Adult Large.