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Talena Winters

Make magic with yarn.

My Secret Wish Knitting creates simple, fun, and accessible patterns and tutorials for knitters of all levels and sizes to unleash your inner knitting wizard.

Get classic and enchanting high-value patterns in multiple formats, with precise instructions and loads of features that are just itching to make magic with your needles. Expect plenty of cables, texture, bright colours, and a break-down of challenging techniques.

It’s time to unlock knitting magic, and unleash the knitting wizard in you.

Hi! I’m Talena Winters.

I started My Secret Wish Knitting in 2010 to empower and delight knitting heroes like you who want to elevate your knitting and make magic with yarn. When I’m not concocting new yarn potion recipes, I’m creating story magic as a fantasy and romance author and fiction editor (at talenawinters.com). I live with my family and pets in the Peace Country of northern Alberta, Canada, where sweater weather lasts at least nine months a year and my closest neighbours are bears and wood nymphs.

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Commander Scarf
My Secret Wish
A young man wears a rugged bulky-knit scarf with waffle weave texture and stands in front of a turbulent sea on a rocky shore.
13 people call this a favorite 13 1 people made this 1
Adventure Socks
My Secret Wish
Closeup of toes and legs of Adventure Socks knitting pattern on model's feet among autumn leaves on a rustic deck, showing the raglan toe shaping the waffle weave texture.
36 people call this a favorite 36 1 people made this 1
Trailfinder Hat
My Secret Wish
A dark green and a turquoise cable-knit hat overlap on a wooden butcher block surface near a small potted plant. Both crowns have cable twists alternating with six-stitch right-cross cables ascending to a rounded crown with integrated decreases.
51 people call this a favorite 51 2 people made this 2
Twisted Rope Fingerless Mittens
My Secret Wish
Woman holding hands next to face and looking sideways while wearing golden fingerless mittens with a twisted cable at the top and bottom cuffs.
32 people call this a favorite 32 2 people made this 2
Just Plain Hat
My Secret Wish
A teenage boy smiles at the camera while wearing a trendy variegated warm knit beanie hat with a 1x1 ribbed brim and a plain crown.
2 comments 2 106 people call this a favorite 106 12 people made this 12
Stash Potion Cowl and Scarf
My Secret Wish
Woman with purple and blond hair wears a multicoloured textured chunky knit cowl with colour gradient over a denim blazer and looks at camera.
41 people call this a favorite 41 4 people made this 4
Graceful Slippers
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Woman's foot wearing pretty variegated purple knit slippers in worsted yarn. The ankle rolls down, and the front is gathered by a ribbon tied with a bow. Short row shaping in front and back.
2 comments 2 204 people call this a favorite 204 21 people made this 21
War Bride Beret
My Secret Wish
Pretty brunette young woman wears an elegant heather pink knit beret with all-over seed stitch, a gentle flare to the crown, and a hatband with a button tab and large brushed brass flower button.
70 people call this a favorite 70 2 people made this 2
Pinnable Pillow Cover
My Secret Wish
A row of square throw pillows on a couch. The centre one has a cover in stockinette stitch with garter edges knit in cream-coloured jumbo yarn.
59 people call this a favorite 59 3 people made this 3
Building Blocks Cowl & Hood
My Secret Wish
Talena, a blond Caucasian woman, wears a tubular cowl around her face like a hood. The cowl has alternating blocks of garter and stockinette stitch.
144 people call this a favorite 144 4 people made this 4
Secret Garden Fingerless Mittens
My Secret Wish
A woman holds a mug and wears heather pink fingerless mittens in worsted weight yarn. They have seed stitch borders at the top and bottom, a thumb gusset, and two columns of eyelets up the back.
60 people call this a favorite 60 5 people made this 5
Just Plain Gloves
My Secret Wish
A flat lay spread of knit gloves of various sizes, yarn weights, and colours on a wooden tabletop. Gloves have ribbed cuffs and plain stockinette bodies, and are knit in bulky, worsted, and fingering weight.
9 comments 9 646 people call this a favorite 646 56 people made this 56
Prairie Twist Hat and Cowl
My Secret Wish
Young Caucasian man wears a dark teal blue chunky-knit cabled cap with a rolled brim and looks off-camera while standing in front of a golden wheat field and a stormy sky.
4 comments 4 84 people call this a favorite 84 3 people made this 3
Just Plain Mittens
My Secret Wish
2 comments 2 61 people call this a favorite 61 17 people made this 17
Snow White and Mary Margaret Tam
My Secret Wish
26 people call this a favorite 26 3 people made this 3
Beanstalk Socks
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Outside ankle view of Jill and the Bean Socks, with-cable variant. A column of chain cable twists climb the outside of the foot and twists around the back of the calf through nested scallops.
37 people call this a favorite 37 3 people made this 3
Snow for Lorelai
My Secret Wish
69 people call this a favorite 69 10 people made this 10
The Honey Tree
My Secret Wish Website
Woman's hands on table wearing knit fingerless flip-top gloves (glittens) with all-over honeycomb cables. The flip-top is held with a wooden butterfly button secured through a crochet loop on the end.
212 people call this a favorite 212 11 people made this 11
Mermaids and Dragons
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Boy rests hands on a red dragon book while wearing knit convertible flip-top texting gloves with all-over scale-like cables on the back. The flip-top is secured to the back of the glove with a button.
117 people call this a favorite 117 8 people made this 8
Revolution Mittens
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Talena, a blond Caucasian woman, holds vertically striped pink and blue brioche-knit mittens to her face and looks up happily.
238 people call this a favorite 238 12 people made this 12
Sweet Nothings Hat
My Secret Wish
47 people call this a favorite 47 3 people made this 3
Killick Cap
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A teenage boy looks away at the snow and wears a jade green rolled-brim ribbed knit watchman's beanie with two irregular golden stripes near the crown, which is shaped using raglan decreases.
98 people call this a favorite 98 5 people made this 5
Revolution Toque
My Secret Wish
333 people call this a favorite 333 50 people made this 50
Brennan Hat
My Secret Wish
A sleeping baby boy in a car seat wears a green cabled beanie alternating with a single rib in the repeat with a ribbed rolled brim. Brennan Hat by My Secret Wish Knitting
2 comments 2 127 people call this a favorite 127 9 people made this 9
Baby Mandarin Jacket
My Secret Wish
Toddler girl sitting in a chair and wearing a turquoise and white long-sleeved seamless chunky-knit Asian-inspired baby cardigan with textural stripes, raglans shoulders, stand-up collar, and a button band.
1 comment 1 31 people call this a favorite 31 4 people made this 4
Brock Beanie
My Secret Wish
47 people call this a favorite 47 5 people made this 5
Just Plain Socks
My Secret Wish
5 comments 5 1517 people call this a favorite 1517 188 people made this 188
Origami Angels Infinity Scarf
My Secret Wish
46 people call this a favorite 46 1 people made this 1
Mary Lennox Tam
My Secret Wish
2 comments 2 91 people call this a favorite 91 7 people made this 7
Owl Eyes on You Hat
My Secret Wish
Flat lay of a rectangular cream knit children's unisex toque with an owl face made from crochet applique trim and button eyes.
273 people call this a favorite 273 7 people made this 7
Lucy Pevensie Tam
My Secret Wish
A blond Caucasian woman smiles at the camera and wears a burgundy chunky-knit slouchy hat with a staghorn cabled hatband.
2 comments 2 712 people call this a favorite 712 31 people made this 31
Lined Seamless Mittens
My Secret Wish Website
119 people call this a favorite 119 9 people made this 9
Twisted Rope Hat
My Secret Wish
Flat lay of a knit chullo hat with earflaps and twisted yarn ties with tassels at the end, a twisted yarn tie at the top of the crown, and a twisted rope cable hatband.
5 comments 5 1200 people call this a favorite 1200 94 people made this 94