This ebook contains both the small and large versions of Alia and Lady Jessica. Shawls are also available separately from their pattern pages.

This is a single document containing 2 patterns. One each for cowl and hat. It is set up as an “e-book” because that is the way Ravelry works!

Worked in a deep, brioche like honeycomb pattern this hat and cowl set will fly off of your needles. Designed to take advantage of the slightly crazy speckle dyed yarns the goal was for the yarn to look as good in the pattern as it did in the skein.

What can you do with two stitches? That is the question that prompted this exploration into simple knitting. First peruse the fourteen different stitch patterns in the stitch dictionary. Then select which one of the four easy and fun accessories you would like to make first. Decide which of the stitches you would like to use in the pattern and you are on your way.

In recent years I have become a little preoccupied with the idea of reversibility in knitted fabric. I design a lot of shawls and scarves and these are both items that can reveal their “wrong sides” during regular wear. I’m not saying that’s the end of the world or anything, but I also enjoy figuring out ways to make it so both sides are nice t...

Sometimes you just want something easy to knit. A pattern that is fast to memorize; a project that you can pick up and put down without fear of losing your place. Those were the parameters that I was working with when I designed A Good Scarf and the resulting design seemed to strike a chord with knitters. So much so that I decided that I should...

In March I released the Second Sock Cowl , my answer to what to knit with that 50 grams of sock yarn that’s never actually going to become a second sock LOL.

I do not think I will ever have enough texture knitting to satisfy me. Lace and cables might distract me with their flamboyance, but texture is so deeply satisfying that it keeps drawing me back in. And you will just have to knit these mitts to see what I mean when I say that their nubbly texture is irresistible.

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This shawl was designed to work with a variety of yarns at a variety of yardages to serve as an answer to the question of what to do with a skein or two of beautiful yarn bought on impulse.

This pattern is available on KnitCompanion here.

This pattern is available on KnitCompanion here.“

This pattern is available on KnitCompanion.

The first time I saw a selection of yarn from la Bien Aimeé I was struck by the beauty of all of the color-ways and the sometimes subtle difference between two different options. At first glance the colors could be confused for one another but upon closer inspection there were differences. I decided I wanted to design a shawl that utilized the...

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I enjoy playing with subtly shifting the balance of the expected. Taking a visually familiar design element and placing it in a way that it is not quite what one might expect but somehow still comforting. What would be a very simple mesh lace trim shows up in an unexpected place, changing the dynamic of the piece.

Mosaic & Lace Knits is an introduction to a technique that I have been developing over several years that brings colorwork into lace using slip stitches. Handling only one strand of yarn at a time, no carrying along the row or stranding, allows development of colorwork patterns without any floats running behind your work and obscuring your ...

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This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

The enormous spread of this three quarters of a square shawl was intended to evoke the giant sea fan corals found languidly waving on coral reefs. I thought it fitting to look to the beauty of the sea for inspiration while dreaming up a pattern to highlight malabrigo’s take on the 2019 Pantone color of the year, Living Coral.

I couldn’t resist trying my hand at this snuggly faux fur from Sirdar. Because of its stitch hiding texture, keeping things simple was the only way to go. So I chose stockinette with a color block striping pattern to make an elegant and fun close to the neck cowl.

When I released my pattern called A Good Scarf the reception was all that I could have asked for. I was worried that I might be alone in my love of the traditional style of scarf. But I was wrong! And then, I started getting requests for a hat to match the scarf, and that I hadn’t expected.

Sometimes you just want something easy to knit. A pattern that is fast to memorize; a project that you can pick up and put down without fear of losing your place. Believe it or not, designing something that checks all of these boxes while at the same time yielding something that is visually enticing is a significant challenge. But I think I man...

Slipped stitches are combined with striping to create this intricate appearing hat that really isn’t any where as difficult as it might appear. The only stitches used are knit, purl, slip, and slip with yarn in front (there are k2tog but they are just for the crown decrease.

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This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

I love patterns that look like they took more effort than they actually required. This shawlette uses the bunching characteristic of a single special stitch to play with color dominance while knitting simple stripes.

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This pattern is The Fiber Seed Swifties Pattern 4!

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This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

Knit entirely in the round this is a super fun pouf, ottoman, footstool, whatever you’d like to call it! The colorwork is slip stitch mosaic style so it is much easier than it looks, you’re only ever working with one color at a time.

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My husband has always asserted that the most romantic fictional couple is Morticia and Gomez Addams, and it is hard to argue with that assertion. Completely devoted to one another in all things, their love transcends all obstacles and is a constant in all of their tales.

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings.

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You can find a video tutorial of this pattern FREE Here on Watch Barbara Knit

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One of the simplest shawl shapes to make is a bottom up triangle. The knitter increases two stitches per row, one stitch on each edge. One of the simplest forms of color-work is knitting stripes. You work with two different balls of yarn and then alternate between knitting two rows of each color.

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The combination of baby alpaca and ultra soft merino in this amazing yarn made me want to have a squooshy cowl to snuggle up to. To take full advantage of the insulating qualities of this yarn I decided that the denser fabric created by mosaic slip stitch colorwork would be a perfect fit.

Designed to show off the craziest of variegated skeins this sock makes use of a stitch I developed by combining slipped stitches with a lifted bar and named the Sandpiper Stitch.

Designed to match my fingerless mitts pattern I Can’t Control My Fingers this hat features the same super stretchy ribbing I have called Wobble Rib.

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This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

Drawing inspiration from the clouds themselves, this graciously sized stole is worked in delightfully soft Cloud from Anzula.

By switching between a simple textured panel and a section of stitches worked in a simple double knitting technique, this cowl creates the illusion that you are doing something complicated when in fact you are not.

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This pattern is available as part of an e-book called One Stitch, Two Stitch: a Mini Stitch Dictionary for Mini Stitches.

This pattern is available as part of an e-book called One Stitch, Two Stitch: a Mini Stitch Dictionary for Mini Stitches.

This pattern is available as part of an e-book called One Stitch, Two Stitch: a Mini Stitch Dictionary for Mini Stitches.

This pattern is available as part of an e-book called One Stitch, Two Stitch: a Mini Stitch Dictionary for Mini Stitches.

Beginning with Judy’s Magic Cast On allows this shawl to have chunky cable that runs seamlessly along the neck edge of this simple and elegant shawl. Instead of joining to work in the round, you simply work flat. The beautiful bulky yarn from Stitch Sprouts makes the knitting go super fast and causes the easy-to-work 2/2 cables pop!

This luxuriously soft cowl is a really good way to get your feet wet working a lace pattern that has a bit of action on the wrong side rows. It also features icord edging and an icord bind off.

Starting with the easy to wear crescent shape, this shawl adds on swooping lace and bountiful beads that come together in an ode to the ocean. The inspiration behind this watery theme is the beautifully dyed sock blank Sea Garden from Gale’s Art.

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There is a balancing act between designing a fast knit and a boring knit. This cowl knits up quickly in 2 skeins of the the delightfully smooshy and chunky Crater Lake and yet has a little bit of cabling to keep things interesting.

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The shawl was designed for Miss Babs armchair travel trip to Sri Lanka!

This scarf is an easy carry-along project suitable for picking up and putting down repeatedly. It is worked all in one piece with no short rows or assembly. It is suitable for adventurous beginners and a good beginning lace project.

With a true Moebius cowl, there is no right side/wrong side dichotomy, there is only the one side. By combining reversible cables with the Moebius form a truly reversible cowl is achieved. To make things super fast I have chosen to work the pattern up in yarn that leans towards the chubbier side.

Starting with a true Moebius cast on this cowl works out from the center in panels of seed stitch and simplified double knitting to create a mix of textures that highlight the wonderful softness and color of both Malabrigo Silky Merino and Silkpaca.

Knit from side to side using slip stitch patterning, Zagless creates a fun optical illusion with a surprisingly simple combination of stitches. By taking advantage of the construction the stripes switch between moving from a Zig to a straight line - without ever zagging.

This is a tall cowl. Not a big cowl, or a bulky cowl … just tall. By combining mosaic color work with simple lace a fabric is created that allows the cowl to be collapsed down around your neck and ears to keep them snuggly and warm.

When starting with the luxurious, drape-y, 100% silk yarn it was inevitable that this shawl was going to evoke water.

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Designed in the soft new Dream in Color Classy this pattern is shown in the colors Grey Tabby & Amber Glass. One hat takes approximately 1/2 a skein of each color.

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This pattern is available for Knit Companion.

This pattern is available on Knit Companion.

You know those big, bulky cowls that use enormous yarn and knit up in a couple of hours? Well, because you are holding your yarn doubled up and using a big ole needle, this pattern knits up like one of those bulky cowls but manages to not actually be bulky.

This pattern now has a matching hat called I can’t control my brain!

Lace and Summer just seem to go together, but sometimes it is too hot to wear even the lightest of wrap. This little headband allows you to have lace in your life even on the hottest of days. Worked in heavier than typical yarn, the bulkier lace takes on a graphic pop which is well defined by the yarn’s rounded shape.

Worked in a fun mixture of texture and easy mosaic knitting, this cowl is great for guys and gals; it all depends on your color selection. It is knit in the round and consists of knits, purls and slipping of stitches so the skill level is appropriate for a confident/advanced beginner on up.

Knitting in the Summer sometimes needs to be light and easy. This scarf features a stitch pattern I developed and call a “Captive Double YO” (just because I need something to call it in my brain - it might have another name, who knows?). It is easy to work, easy to memorize, and reading your stitches is simple so you can put down & pick up ...

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Buy this pattern together with Curiouser Mitts and receive both for $9.00 buy both now

Elegance can be based in simplicity and that is the basis for this shawl fit for Royalty. Irulan is the Princess daughter of House Corrino in the Frank Herbert Dune books and the namesake for this shawl. A mixture of texture and lace, the luxury of the Sunshine Yarns UltraLuxe Light shines through in this pattern. Worked in the subtly luminous ...

Just in time for Oscar watching parties, I am pleased to announce this elegant mens scarf fit for the discerning agent. Whether you are sitting back drinking a martini or you have to leap onto a convenient snowmobile for a high speed chase, this scarf will keep you warm in style.

Knit until you run out of yarn, that is the plan with this piece. Designed with Malabrigo Arroyo in the colorway Marte (Spanish for Mars) while following the Mars Rover mission; this curiously shaped wrap is somewhere between a shawl and a scarf. If you use a lot of yardage - you get a shawl, if you use less you get something easy to wrap as a ...

This design takes its inspiration from the Egyptian revival of the 1920s, which was sparked off by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Knitting stripes and lace while slipping a few choice stitches produces color work lace without any of the stranding. Working it in the round makes it even easier because all of your slipped stitches keep their yarn in back. You have to pay attention to what you are doing, but it isn’t exactly hard.

Yes, this is what appears to be, color-work lace. And while I wouldn’t say “it’s a piece of cake” it is simply knitting stripes and lace at the same time while strategically slipping stitches. Not a beginner technique, but with attention to detail I believe not the hardest thing out there either.

Worn as either a long loop or doubled up for warmth, this pattern was specifically developed to work well with highly variegated yarns. I have a passion for hand dyed yarns and this beautiful SoftnShiny color-way, Sliced Blood Oranges, wonderfully represents the category. Too often these wildly colorful yarns do not play well with patterns, and...

Caladan is the stormy and windswept ocean home world of House Atreides; the watery and wavy elements of this crescent shaped shawl were designed to evoke these images, with some beautiful beads added in for fun. It is particularly well suited to watery colored variegated yarns, not to say that it wouldn’t look fabulous in other colors!

This headband/earwarmer tapers to the back and is closed with a button. This means no bulk at the nape of your neck and you can take it on and off without destroying your hair by pulling the headband over repeatedly.

A companion shawl to Alia, Lady Jessica is a sport weight shawl that is little snugglier than a fingering weight shawl while avoiding the weight of worsted.

A Sport weight shawl; Alia is a little snugglier than a fingering weight shawl without all of the weight of worsted.

The second in a series of shoulder hugging crescent shaped shawls, the Mapes pattern is a set of simple to knit, comforting wraps. Included in this pattern are the instructions for a simple stockinette/garter version, the sample shown in the photographs, and variations for self design.

While not a universal truth, it is common for the male recipients of knitted hats (and perhaps some male knitters themselves) to like things relatively … basic. Utilitarian pieces that will serve their purposes well but tend to be fairly boring to knit. This hat is my compromise. It isn’t too fancy, nor is it pedestrian.

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Sometimes you fall in love with yarn. You buy it, take it home, stash it … lovingly horde it. And then you pull it out and wonder “what was I thinking” “how did I ever think I could wear/want those colors”?

I was making Myra Wood ‘s Magic Loop Mitts: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/magic-loop-mitts