This shawl is a quick knit designed with mild short rows and mosaic work for a dynamic visual and asymmetric balance. Named after a line taken from Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, the work’s grid-like patterning calls to mind electric motion and circuitry… and it works up electrically quick!

This wrap is cousin to the crocheted Spectacular Sea Cucumber. It is made by knitting up the side, around the top, and down the other side of an i-cord. With its unique construction and distinct texture and fringe, this wrap is a nice counterpoint to its crochet inspiration!

This unusual and playful shawl looks just like its counterpart: the horseshoe crab! It begins with a textured hexagon in the round and moves to a contrasting tail (worked flat) to add more wrap. The pattern can be completed with or without the tail, so it can be worn in a number of ways. Mix yarns for color and texture, play with weights for a ...

This rectangular shawl starts at the center by knitting flat and moves to the round by picking up stitches along the edge. It features garter and a gather stitch pattern for a nice variation in textures. The name comes from the fallen guardians in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The guardians are some of the most relentless foes in the...

This electric shawl is sure to be an eye-catcher. With short rows to create sharp angles, this piece is designed to use different weights and textures of yarn to generate a strong visual impact as well as a dynamic pattern. Use your favorite yarn or get unconventionally creative with odd materials to make a shawl that is one of a kind. Whether ...

Based on a scene in Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film Ponyo, this large shawl is a vivid adventure in color scheme. Like Ponyo running on top of the waves, the colors play off each other to give a vivid pop in the center and towards the outer rings of this circular shawl. It works up quickly into a warm, oversized garment with a number of stitch vari...

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This poncho, like its anime namesake, is a visual spectacle. With alternating sections of stockinette and garter stripes separated by i cord ridges, there’s plenty of room for color play here. Featuring an asymmetric design based on the ghoulish fighting organ known as a kagune in the show, you can play with how it sits to mirror your own style...

Where to begin with the absurdity of this oversized and vibrant sea creature? This oversized shawl was inspired by mysterious and aqueous creatures of the deep. With its bizarre shape and vivid fringe, this garment is sure to be a spectacular addition to your own shawl pile… or aquarium. (You never know! It’s a lively one.)

This oversized cowl is named after the Gorons in The Legend of Zelda series. The Gorons live in mountainous and volcanic areas, able to withstand the extremes of these habitats. They travel by curling up and rolling over any terrain. The cowl is a variation on my Deku Leaf shawl, featuring similar textures and stitch definitions. In this case, ...

This heart-shaped triangular shawl is named after the novella Rock Crystal. Written by Austrian author Adalbert Stifter, the text is about two lost children who survive a night on a treacherous glacier (with the help of coffee extract no less). The pattern of this shawl is meant to recreate the images of a glacier: cracked and smooth ice, deep ...

Inspired by the eponymous scene in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, this circular pi shawl features images that appear in the narrative and the corresponding tarot. Light and airy, yet intricately detailed, the pattern is an attempt to capture Pynchon’s words and the spirit of the novel in lace.

This oversized shawl is named after the Deku Leaf from the video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. This object allows the hero Link to float through the air and glide with ease in a pinch. Like its namesake, this shawl is a large yet airy accoutrement to add to your own RPG inventory! Go adventurous and wear it full sized, or go on a si...

Named after the high contrast color combination, this reversible infinity scarf begins with a granny square and is worked flat afterwards. It is filled with a number of textures and colors to show off the contrasts in yarn. Wear it long, or wrap it for extra warmth. Change it up to show off various color combinations and textural portions. No d...

Fuzzy, scaly, furry, neon, soft, and electric: a wild animal of a shawl! This one gets its name from the variety of yarn that inspired it all: support indie handdyers! Knit on the bias with seed stitch, garter, rosette stitch, and mesh, this triangular stitch sampler of a shawl is a lively beast of a knit. It’s sure to keep you interested with ...

Prepare yourself for a galactic journey through many dimensions of spacetime! But with yarn. Inspired by the portal gun from the irreverent sci-fi cartoon Rick and Morty, this cowl features a portal-like circle framed in i-cord from which the rest radiates. Stripes, garter, stockinette, mesh, ribbing, i-cord edging – the cosmic adventure never ...

This shawl, named after the titular character of the Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim, is as strange in shape as the show is in plot and style. The vibrant colors in this pattern accentuate the bizarrely large yarn over lace for a distinct addition to your shawl collection. Make this to keep yourself warm during the next Irken invasion and prepa...

“Clothing is sin,” says villain Ragyō Kiryūin in the hyperactive anime Kill la Kill. And maybe she’s right. This shawl is named after Senketsu, a sentient outfit made of an alien lifeform known as Life Fibers. The appearance of this garment actively shifts in color and shape in surprising ways. With stripes, short rows, slipped stitches, and ga...

This quick cowl is a piece to accompany your Anubis Party shawl, so the party never has to end! This warm cowl is knit by holding two strands of fingering double to create a marled color that plays well will the distinct texture of garter and mesh combined. Knit this one, knit the Anubis Party, knit both, knit either… hey! It’s your party!

This heart-shaped shawl features alternating garter stripes with cabled slipped stitches and beaded stockinette, all ending with a light beaded lace border. This one was inspired by the colors in Casual Fashion Queen’s Sex Bob-omb yarn, which was named after a band in one of my favorite graphic novels/movies: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Its re...

This large five-point shawl features a combination of garter, stockinette, and mesh in varying order to give it a nice, dynamic texture. The name comes from the colorway between the Sunflower yellow: the “Primary” speckle looks solid, but, like Pointillist art, is actually a series of small dots placed closely together. So break out your yarn, ...

This garter shawlette features a longer wingspan and interesting color contrasts made with German Short Rows. With a lace border, this cotton shawlette is a perfect accessory for moving into spring. It’s pistachio in color. It’s cool… temperature AND adjective! So… enjoy!

This long, striped scarf gets its unique shape from a number of strategically placed increases and decreases, making the center the widest point. A mesh border is added after to the selvedge end, a nice contrast to the i-cord on top. This scarf gets its name from a fictional video game (Deep Archer) mentioned in Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel, B...

This heart-shaped garter shawlette with a deep V is a unique take on its cousin shawl, Neon Futurist. Vorticism was an early 20th century avant garde movement with similar dynamic imagery, yet its own unique take on the æsthetics of movement and momentum in art and literature. Show off your unique take on this movement with this homage to Vorti...

Named after a… we’ll say peculiar… scene in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, this partially marled shawl gets its unique coloring from holding two strands of yarn together. With its interesting shape, varied texture, and vibrant visual contrast, this is yet another shawl to add to your postmodern party wardrobe!

This bizarre heart-shaped shawl is knit with a number of added increases on one side and German Short Rows on the other. Asymmetric, one half features a simple lace pattern, and the other half mesh. This allows for many different ways to shift the shawl for wear. Originally inspired by the overabundance of the color pink in Dario Argento’s horr...

This colorful garter shawl is full of visual movement generated by stripes, colorwork, and German short rows. This heart-shaped shawl is a dynamic display of contrasting colors and shapes inspired by the Futurist movement of the early 20th century.

Inspired by a humorous scene in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow involving a terrible candy called Marmalade Surprise, this asymmetric triangular scarf is a vivid display of colors in play with each other. The eccentric shaping is generated by overlapping German Short Rows. Coordinate your colors, let them clash, bright, dark… do what you wil...

Perfect for fall! A quick and easy project.

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This is a pattern for a crochet pudgy amigurumi teddy bear.

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A quickly knit stockinette cowl with symmetrical eyelets and a garter stitch border in an accent color.

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A stockinette neck warmer with a contrast slot

A seed stitch keyhole neck warmer that comes to a triangle point.

This pillow/plush is as outspoken and vibrant as Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Err himself! In purple yarn, this Err will certainly be a nice touch of décor as you watch the Mooninites and their crazy antics. So kick back, watch an episode of Aqua Teen, smoke while you shoot the bird, and knit this Err pillow!

Need a quick cowl with an interesting pattern? This one moves quickly and quite simply, and it can be easily modified to make the cowl shorter or longer in the round.