Every year as June approaches, I look forward to having another rainbow on my needles. This year’s Pride fundraising design did not disappoint.

One of my favorite treats is ice cream eaten straight from the pint. I know it’s a bit of a bad habit, but somehow it always tastes better that way.

Light and fluffy pâte à choux pastry is a staple of French bakeries: the basis for cream puffs, eclairs, and many other delightful treats.

Sometimes an idea won’t leave your brain. It takes up residence, perhaps rattles around a bit, changing shape, and eventually grows into something else. That’s how Perseveration came to be.

I enjoyed playing with the juxtaposition of light and dark in this hat which is shot through with color using a little-known technique called vertical stranding. It’s easier — and more fun — than you might think!

The second pattern in my Pride series, this shawl employs a series of brightly-colored mini skeins into a generously-sized rectangular rainbow of a shawl.

Sometimes I fall in love with the colors of a yarn in the skein and I feel compelled to create just the perfect pattern to show it off. This was one of those times. Slippery Slope evolved from my desire to see the long color changes in a skein that particularly spoke to me do its thing against a velvety soft, all-but-solid background.

The Dinkins Bayou cowl is named for one of my favorite places: a still, quiet, little inlet just off Florida’s Pine Island Sound — a place where egrets and manatees flourish among the mangroves and rushes, where the quiet of an early-morning kayak ride is often interrupted by the splash of mullet jumping, the call of a roseate spoonbill returni...

As an avid skier, my absolute favorite thing is getting out on the slopes early enough in the morning to make fresh tracks on new snow. The slipped-stitch patterning in this cowl brings me right back to the moments I love: standing at the top of a bowl full of powder, pointing my skis down the hill, and jumping in.

Shattered Shale is a study in angles and contrast. Like a wall of rock that’s cracked along its structural lines, this cowl is all

Named for one of my favorite California beach towns, Pacifica is a swoopy two-color brioche cowl whose curved lines form ripples and waves that bring me right back to my favorite ocean overlook.

A few days before Christmas last year I noticed my husband’s gift pile was looking a little light. Without time to go to the yarn store, much less knit a big project, what could I make? I rooted around in my basket of leftover yarn, found two small balls of worsted that I thought would appeal to him, and cast on for a mug hugger – something to ...

Woodleaf is a cozy cowl that’s perfect for snuggling into on chilly fall hikes in the forest. It draws its inspiration from twining leaves and mossy branches overhead and the mottled sunlight that wends among them to make its way to the forest floor.

When I look at this shawl, I imagine the legendary mermaid, Lorelei, gazing out across the surface of her pool; when the water is still, she can see her reflection, but with the lightest stirring of wind, the water ripples and begins to mirror a thousand separate facets of sunlight. The light’s patterns continue change with the varied movement ...

Ambarine was inspired by the waving lines of California’s fields and hills which inevitably draw the eye every summer as the grasses turn their distinctive golden color. The lines of overlapping hills that stretch across the landscape are replicated in Ambarine’s offset groups of ridges and eyelets. The looser gauge at which it is knit and its ...

The Proud to Be socks were created to be a celebration of you — whatever and whoever you are.

The Steven’s Creek hat is named for a local trail where my family and I like to go hiking and biking. Like the trail, this hat is colorful and interesting without being too difficult to tackle.

This sibling sock to Wanderly follows a similar route but sometimes breaks its own trail, with a new cable pattern, differing heel construction, and a longer color block on the cuff. Like its sibling socks, Wanderoo takes us on a little adventure. This time our cables meander back and forth as though they can’t quite make up their mind where th...

Some people travel with a destination in mind, and others like to get outdoors and follow where the path leads. These sport-weight, unisex hiking socks are inspired by the wandering type of adventure – the kind that surprises and delights, even if you don’t always know what’s around the next bend.

This cozy cowl is made in the fluffy brioche stitch, a slipped-stitch technique that adds texture and depth to fabric. I like to teach my students to learn brioche by working two colors, in the round, as I think that’s the easiest way to learn this type of knitting.

This cozy, unisex cowl reminds me of blustery days on the coast when I would hunker my chin down into my coat. If I’d had a cowl like this, made of soft wool to block the wind, I wouldn’t have needed to hunker.

These miniature Christmas stockings were designed in a year that calls out desperately for hope and cheer … 2020.

A friend was musing recently about coasters, wondering why they are so often made of materials like stone and leather that are ruined by condensation, or of glass or tile, which allows the condensation to run off and ruin your furniture.