Meghan wanted her wedding flower to be Lily of the Valley, but with her wedding in October in Minnesota, it wasn’t going to happen. So, I decided to wrap her in her mother’s love and Lily of the Valley, hearts and cat paws on her wedding day.

Similar style caps were worn by the Voyageurs that made a name for themselves in the woods of Canada and in the Great Lakes region for their hardiness and strength as they worked the fur trade.

This hat is a slightly more complex pattern that has pointed animal ears. It uses short rows and W&T (wrap and turn) to shape the ears. The ears sit pretty far back on the head.

LOSY stands for left over sock yarn. Anyone who knits socks has a supply of leftover yarn and orphan skeins and you don’t know quite how to use them all up. This is a simple unisex hat pattern that uses the leftovers and orphan skeins of sock yarn for a uniquely colored hat. Use two strands at a time and when you finish one ball, simply pick up...

LOSY stands for left over sock yarn. Anyone who knits socks has a supply of leftover yarn and orphan skeins and you don’t know quite how to use them all up. This is a simple unisex hat pattern that uses the leftovers and orphan skeins of sock yarn for a uniquely colored hat. Use two strands at a time and when you finish one ball, simply pick up...

My friend asked me to write out a pattern for a scarf for her to knit for her daughter. Her daughter sent her a picture of what she wanted, but that was far more complicated than my friend was willing to knit. We sat down and worked out what she was willing to knit for her daughter vs. the picture her daughter sent her. The simpler scarf was a ...

This shawlette is knit in one piece starting with Pretty Parasols lace edging and then the body of the shawlette is worked into a crescent shape using short rows. The small uses one skein (440 yds) of blockable sock yarn. The medium and large use 2 skeins; they may be matching, coordinating or complimentary.

Commelina is commonly known as the dayflower due to the short lives of their flowers. In China, the plant is known as yazhicao, which roughly translates into “duck foot herb”, it is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb. However, since it’s been introduced to parts of Europe and North America it has spread and is now considered a noxious weed. T...

My husband and I own a bookstore and coffee shop that has a statue in the window of a man carrying a stack of books. We decorate the statue with seasonal headgear and I wanted to design an unusual winter hat for him. When it’s not busy, people can see me sitting at a table near the window knitting socks, so I decided he needed a stocking hat.

Here’s a scarf to go with your Five Feet of Stocking Hat.

This “candlelight” lace motif has been restructured from its original rectangular shape into a biased fabric. One of this pattern’s features is the beauty of its reverse side, where the embossed “candlelight” motif appears in knit stitches against a background of purled stitches.

I remember wandering around Grandma’s flower garden and picking a bouquet of Lily of the Valley to give to her. It just so happened that Grandpa called Grandma “Lily.” What a simple but beautiful flower and what a wonderful fragrance.

This shawlette gets its name from the two patterns that are used: the Cockle Shells lace edging and the Blue Bell ribbing. This shawlette is knit in one piece starting with the Cockle Shells lace edging and then the body of the shawlette is picked up and worked into the narrow curved shape using short rows. This shawlette is finished with a sim...

If you’ve ever been adopted by a cat, you know how they walk right into your heart. Cats and yarn, what a purrfect combination.