Kristen C Howard

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Cowl
“Oh! Call us not weeds, but flowers of the sea…”
Knitting: Pillow / Cushion
This versatile pillow cover, which features four pattern options and three seaming options, is inspired by two aspects of wartime knitting: knitting espionage and relief knitting.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These colorwork fingerless mitts are knit in the round from the cuff up with two, three, or four colors -- it’s up to you! These mitts are a great stashbuster and suitable for first time colorwork knitters as there are no long floats, as well as for those trying fingerless mitts for the first time.
Knitting: Cowl
This winter, wrap yourself in the warmth of a rare book! This cowl is inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts. The charts draw from pen-flourished initials in holdings of McGill Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, especially a group of excised initials and a fifteenth-century Italian antiphonal (MS Medieval 073). This manuscript ...