Sharyn Armstrong

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
The Yetta Socks blend vintage lace with classic style and rugged, hard-wearing features that will make them last for many years.
Knitting: Washcloth / Dishcloth
The French Farmhouse Washcloth is a classic, striped edged cloth with a subtle all-over textured pattern and a handy i-cord loop for hanging. It is suitable for personal use as a washcloth or as a dishcloth.
Knitting: Cowl, Scarf
Aurora Australis is a textural lace scarf with beautiful drape that can also be worn as a cowl (singly or doubly), around the shoulders as a shawl, or buttoned with a twist to make an infinity scarf. It is reversible, with a different effect on the reverse side.
Knitting: Cardigan
Japanese lace panels and eyelet bands feature in the Yetta Cardi, a seamless, top-down, yoked cardigan with a casual vintage look. Knitted in fingering weight yarn, it is light and drapey. A great cardigan to wear with a dress or jeans.
Knitting: Pullover
Delicate and feminine, yet with a rustic simplicity, the Nubnik tunic (or long-line sweater/jumper) is a modern take on traditional lace. The lacework is toned down by being confined to the lower borders, and is given a softened, earthy quality by the use of aran weight tweed yarn. (A tunic with nubs in the yarn, thus “Nubnik”). Tapered columns...
Knitting: Cowl
This cowl was inspired by the harsh, rugged landscapes of Iceland and Hannah Kent’s beautiful, evocative novel, Burial Rites. It is named after the novel’s central character, Agnes Magnusdottir.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Boysenberry Ripple is a generously sized, squishy toque (or beanie), with a ribbed cable pattern that blends continuously through the folded brim into the body of the hat.
Knitting: Scarf
Melaleuca blends textures and colours, with solid-colour garter stitch sections and inset multicoloured stocking stitch wedges that pleat inwards.
Knitting: Pullover
Suitable for a beginner knitter, yet classically stylish, Chill Shift is a rustic knit with side panel detail, perfect for chilling out both while knitting and wearing it. This garment can be worn alone or layered, so is a great go-to piece for most seasons.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This light, airy shawl uses short rows to create the illusion of four separate wedges, while it is actually knit without any sewing.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These warm, soft and easy-to-knit wrist warmers are all about symmetry. Even the wrist chart is flipped upside-down to provide the hand chart. They are named after a town whose name is also symmetric (ie, palindromic): Tumut, which lies at the foot of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These easy-to-knit wrist warmers (or fingerless gloves) were inspired by the melaleuca trees in my garden. The pattern grows organically out of the twisted ribbing that forms the bands and travels diagonally across the stocking stitch background. No cabling is required.
Knitting: Pillow / Cushion
These circular cushion covers are knitted in garter stitch in one piece, starting from the outer rim and knitting inwards towards the centre twice. They can be knitted as an enclosed cushion cover or as a removable cover (for washing).
Knitting: Cuffs
This wrist warmer pattern is based loosely on my Whatever sock pattern. It is a quick, easy knit and is in the round, so no seeming required.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks feature a leafy vine that fully encircles the leg, passing through a tapered section of twisted rib and into a stocking stitch foot. The socks are mirror images of each other, so that the vines wrap around the outer sides of the legs.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
This pattern was knitted for my teenage son, whose response to being told I was knitting him a pair of socks was “whatever”. Despite his initial lack of enthusiasm, they became his favourite socks and he ordered another pair (also pictured).
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks use travelling/twisted stitches and columns of twisted stitch ribbing that feed into the band ribbing, the heel slip stitch pattern and around the sides of the toes.