Sandra Marie Dooley

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Knitting: Beanie, Toque, Beret, Tam
This hat is worked with a strand of fingering weight yarn held double with a strand of lace weight mohair to produce a finished product with a lovely soft halo. It utilizes a bubble stitch to create intriguing texture and is oversized and slouchy, perfect for pulling down to cover your neck and ears on cold winter days.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This hat is knit from crown to crown, effectively knitting two hats seamlessly attached at the brim which fold into each other to produce a double layer, fully reversible hat. One hat is knit in simple stockinette, while the other is knit with a series of eyelets which allow the color from the inner hat to POP through.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Yarn:
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This hat utilizes just one skein of Knit Picks Felici yarn. Perfect for those times when you are craving those satisfying stripes but just don’t feel like knitting socks. Also a great way to use up a spare single skein.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Yarn: 3 skeins of fingering weight yarn totaling 1260 yards (420 yards each). Sample shown in Madeline Tosh, Tosh Merino Light: 100% merino wool, single ply yarn, 420 yards per 100 grams.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Crescent construction with some short row shaping, simple garter and lace, and a gradual fade between 3 colors of yarn.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This pattern includes full written instructions as well as charts for each section.
Knitting: Cowl
The Crazy Colors Caterpillar Cowl is the perfect pattern for using up scrap yarn and/or mini skeins. The pattern calls for 10g each of 20 different colors, but can be easily modified to include as many or as few colors as you like. Let your imagination and your color sense run wild!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This is a half-pi shawl, worked from the top down. This pattern includes both written instructions and charts for all sections.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
This pattern includes both charted and written instructions.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This pattern includes both charted and written instructions.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
This pattern includes both charted and written instructions.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This pattern includes both written and charted instructions for all sections.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This half circle pi shawl takes its inspiration from the sandy shores of a distant beach. Starting with a bit of stockinette, representing the smooth sand as you step onto the beach, it quickly moves into the knot section, which brings to mind the shells, rocks, and bits of sea glass scattered across the sandy expanse. As you step closer to the...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This generously sized half circle pi shawl combines soft, squishy garter stitch with a series of satisfyingly intuitive lace panels for a shawl that is truly a joy to knit. The pattern is written for three colors of sport weight yarn, but can easily be adapted to different color combinations or yarn weights
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Is there anyone who doesn’t love Miss Babs’ Yowza? If you are like me, you fall in love with the enticingly colorful skeins, but are never quite sure what to knit with them once you get them home. Enter: ‘Remix’. This shawl utilizes a simple slip stitch pattern which works wonderfully well with variegated colorways. The nature of the stitch pat...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Autumnal is a generously sized open square shawl. Worsted weight, all over lace, this shawl sits wonderfully on the shoulders.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
This light, airy shawl utilizes an openwork lace pattern, which, when combined with Voolenvine Yarns’ ‘Dirty on Purpose’ colorway, brings to my mind the steep, sheer side of a craggy cliff, overlooking the ocean. This is a triangular shawl, knit side to side, and its light weight and open stitches make it a perfect summer knit. I imagine knitti...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
The idea for this shawl came to me while sitting outside my home in the Monadnock Valley of New Hampshire. When you live in a valley the days can be hot, but the nights are often crisp and cool. This worsted weight shawl is just right for throwing over your shoulders in the evening or early morning while enjoying the fresh mountain air. The tex...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
A beautifully rustic yarn and the wonderfully textured knot stitch bring to mind the bark of an old, gnarled tree. This hat would be right at home amongst the ancient trees of an old forest.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
One skein wonder!
Knitting: Cowl
I imagine wearing this cowl as I make my way down bustling city streets. I love how the simplicity of the design adds just the right amount of interest without distracting from the rest of the outfit.
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This all over cabled hat brings to mind the dense trees of a New England forest. I imagine wearing this hat as I hike through wooded paths on a crisp cool morning.