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Talena Winters

Make magic with yarn.

My Secret Wish Knitting creates beautiful, empowering, and accessible patterns and tutorials 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 knitters 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.

You can get my entire collection of patterns (and some cool knitting merch) on my website at www.mysecretwish.ca.

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P.S. Get free patterns when you join my knitting newsletter. Sign up for my newsletter here. You can also follow me on Instagram @mysecretwishknitting or like my Facebook page to get the latest from My Secret Wish Knitting.

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Trailfinder Hat
My Secret Wish Website
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.
53 people call this a favorite 53 2 people made this 2
Twisted Rope Fingerless Mittens
My Secret Wish Website
Woman holding hands next to face and looking sideways while wearing golden fingerless mittens with a twisted cable at the top and bottom cuffs.
27 people call this a favorite 27 2 people made this 2
Just Plain Hat
My Secret Wish Website
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 84 people call this a favorite 84 12 people made this 12
Stash Potion Cowl and Scarf
My Secret Wish Website
Woman with purple and blond hair wears a multicoloured textured chunky knit cowl with colour gradient over a denim blazer and looks at camera.
39 people call this a favorite 39 4 people made this 4
Graceful Slippers
My Secret Wish Website
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 2 205 people call this a favorite 205 22 people made this 22
War Bride Beret
My Secret Wish on Etsy
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.
67 people call this a favorite 67 2 people made this 2
Pinnable Pillow Cover
My Secret Wish Website
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.
51 people call this a favorite 51 3 people made this 3
Building Blocks Cowl & Hood
My Secret Wish on Etsy
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.
119 people call this a favorite 119 4 people made this 4
Secret Garden Fingerless Mittens
My Secret Wish Website
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.
59 people call this a favorite 59 5 people made this 5
Just Plain Gloves
My Secret Wish on Etsy
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 9 577 people call this a favorite 577 53 people made this 53
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 79 people call this a favorite 79 3 people made this 3
Just Plain Mittens
My Secret Wish
2 comments 2 57 people call this a favorite 57 15 people made this 15
Snow White and Mary Margaret Tam
My Secret Wish
27 people call this a favorite 27 3 people made this 3
Beanstalk Socks
My Secret Wish
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.
34 people call this a favorite 34 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
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.
190 people call this a favorite 190 10 people made this 10
Mermaids and Dragons
My Secret Wish
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
My Secret Wish
Talena, a blond Caucasian woman, holds vertically striped pink and blue brioche-knit mittens to her face and looks up happily.
229 people call this a favorite 229 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
My Secret Wish
A Caucasian man looks off-camera and wears a charcoal-colour rounded ribbed knit watchman's beanie with a rolled brim in front of a snowy background.
94 people call this a favorite 94 5 people made this 5
Revolution Toque
My Secret Wish
327 people call this a favorite 327 51 people made this 51
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 2 122 people call this a favorite 122 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 29 people call this a favorite 29 4 people made this 4
Brock Beanie
My Secret Wish
48 people call this a favorite 48 5 people made this 5
Just Plain Socks
My Secret Wish
5 comments 5 1438 people call this a favorite 1438 184 people made this 184
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 86 people call this a favorite 86 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.
278 people call this a favorite 278 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 2 698 people call this a favorite 698 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 1193 people call this a favorite 1193 94 people made this 94