This is a beanie-style toque with a four-cornered crown, knit in the round, featuring baltic-style colourwork.

This is a very stretchy unisex hat, which sits just over the ears. It takes about 50g (2oz) of yarn to make; you’ll need more if you want to make it longer (for a foldover brim) or to add a pompom or other embellishment on the top.

This is a Bohus-inspired beanie with a hemmed edge for extra warmth around the ears. The hat is done in fingering weight yarn, but can easily be adjusted to take heavier weights. Keep in mind that Bohus stitches look best when done with lighter yarns, though.

A felted or fulled top-down pointy hat that’s sure to bring out the gnome in you.

Trellis is an easy twisted-stitch narrow-fitting neck warmer with a lacy border and a rolled edge. It is knit in one piece from the bottom up. A matching set of wristwarmers can be made if you are frugal with the yarn! Try knitting with a slightly smaller needle to stretch the yardage.

A simple cowl with rolled edges, knit in the round using a brioche stitch variant (“stockinette brioche”). Done in bulky yarn, it is cushy and quick! Use self-striping yarn or 2 contrasting colours to give bold vertical stripes. The “wrong side” of the cowl is also interesting.

This unisex scarf is a fun introduction to slipped-stitch or mosaic knitting. The construction is simple; 9 different blocks are separated by rows of garter stitch, and a mitred garter border is knit on after the scarf is complete.

Beanie-style, close-fitting hat with lined brim for extra warm ears. The brim features fair-isle (stranded) colourwork and the body of the hat is a slipped-stitch motif (one colour per row). Sized for Men’s M (Ladies L) and Men’s L (Ladies XL).

This is a good beginner project for double knitting. It uses small amounts of yarn and is a good “stash-buster”.

Chart for a field of snowflakes (4 different ones). You can change the arrangement as you please. Each snowflake is 25stsx25rows. There are floats >7 sts; they are indicated in the chart.

Chart for a field of snowflakes; 50sts x 50 rows.

A simple, unisex neckwarmer with a number of possible variations.

A simple cabled hat with beanie-type fit, just covering the ears, knit in fairly heavy yarn.

knitting chart for tessellated fish, in the style made famous by M.C. Escher. This one inspired by a drawing by Makoto Nakamura.

chart for MC Escher interlocking bird design (variant 3).

A few simple colourwork tessellation designs, suitable for smaller items such as socks.

Chart for MC Escher’s interlocking birds (variant 2).

knitting chart for MC Escher’s interlocking birds (one of several variants).

knitting chart for Escher’s interlocking lizards.

Top-down fingerless glove with thumb knit separately and attached with a gusset. Instructions include a picot cast-on and bind-off, and an easy 5-stitch openwork (lacy) rib. The resulting glove is quite stretchy.

Toe-up, “forethought” heel template, for 2 sizes (ladies “medium” and gents “medium”). Sized for 8-9 sts/in (fingering). Includes 6 rib-based simple patterns (3 for ladies, 3 for gents) for you to try.