A loose-fitting vest to accentuate your wardrobe. The I-cord edging adds a smooth finish.

Mosaic patterns are a great way to use up stash yarn, but if you get two skeins of DK weight of approximately 300 yards each, you can get two cowls. Hey … reverse the colors in the second one! What you want are colors that pop. Try mixing a gradient or multi with a solid color.

Cowler is a loose cowl using various knit and purl stitch patterns. Two sizes.

A great garment for cool days. Two matching rectangles sewn ends to sides make up this poncho. A cable pattern drapes the neck.

Use up your stash yarn with this quick project. A mostly garter stitch scarf with an easy cable makes this scarf a perfect accessory that also keeps your neck warm.

This is a luscious cabled sweater, wirtten for men and women. There is a centered cable motif in the front and back flanked by chain cables. Worked in worsted weight, it makes for a warm pullover.

This hat was made for warmth. It uses two colors of worsted weight yarn--about 100 yards for each color.

A drapey, lace, rectangular shawl in two yarn weights and two lengths.

A top-down, short-sleeved, raglan with a rolled neck treatment, and lace at the yoke, border, and sleeves. A great summer sweater. The pullover is designed to have no set front or back.

Coastal Cool is a shirt-tailed pullover with three-quarter-length lace sleeves. Little curl stitches populate the body of the pullover, creating a textured effect. Stitches are picked up along the armhole edge for the sleeves, which are worked in the round with no shaping until the row before the bind off when the number of stitches are halved ...

This is a fun way to knit a wonderfully cozy blanket of squares with each square knit onto the next one. No sewing individual squares together. Squares are knit in the round, with each square consisting of two colors. The blanket is made with 15 colors of worsted weight yarn knit into 30 squares: 5 squares per row and 6 rows.

This cardigan is worked flat, front and back, until the armholes. Side-open pockets are worked along with the body. The shawl collar and button band are worked in one piece by picking up stitches along front and back and is shaped using short rows.

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This open-front jacket is about comfort. It is worked flat in one piece, bottom up, until the armholes. The front cable bands are worked with the body. The front of the pockets is worked while the body is worked, and the lining is worked afterwards. The three-quarter length sleeves are worked by picking up stitches around the armhole and knit i...

This raglan sweater is worked seamlessly from the top down and features a cabled front and a cable on each sleeve. The back is worked in stockinette.

This crescent shawl is worked from the top down starting with a garter tab. It’s a quick knit.

This pattern includes two designs--hat and cowl--with instructions for DK and worsted weight yarns. To make both hat and cowl requires between 110-130 yards each of two colors. For best results, select one variegated and one solid color.

The Celtic word “angwen” means handsome. It seemed a good word for the type of pattern and, hopefully, the sweater itself. The collar on the scoop neck is attached and worked with short rows. Often cable sweaters such as this one are worked with drop shoulders. I have a soft spot for set-in sleeves, which are part of this design. The sweater is...

This bottom up, seamed pullover has a 9” zipper neck closure and a stand-up collar. The ribbing gives a fit that hugs, but not too tight.

A one-skein cowl that adds a slipped stitch skill into your knitting basket. The slipped stitch pattern compresses the rows a bit, creating a gentle wave at the bottom and top.

The zig zag pattern in this vest hints at shadows and shapes. The cotton yarn makes it ideal for warm weather climes. It is designed with 4” (10 cm) of ease.

This hat is worked with a marled ribbing (using both strands of yarn), followed by Fair Isle colorwork. You can get 2 hats from the 2 skeins of Good Karma’s sport weight (60/40 wool/alpaca).

A slipped stitch drapey tunic vest knit bottom up, featuring a scallop edge. The A-line shape and single-buttoned opening gives the vest a nice swing.

This cowl was an experiment using the marlisle technique developed by Anna Maltz where a minimum of two colors are worked together (marled) with stranded color work. Cables were added as a new twist.

I had some leftover yarn from working a two-color cowl--about 125 yards per color. It seemed like either would be sufficient to knit a hat, so I decided to work both yarns combining the technique of marling with that of single striping.

Cotton sweaters for me are perfect summer wear,

Love of cables, love of comfortable cardigans, and love of pockets!

Marling is a technique where a minimum of 2 colors are worked together. Marlisle is a creation of Anna Maltz who combined marling with fair isle (stranded color work).

The beauty of this pattern is that although designed for a man, it will suit both sexes. The pattern produces a stretchy fabric, so wash and properly block the gauge swatch to make sure you get the correct gauge.

Since moving to a colder climate, I’ve come to appreciate the value of leg warmers. These fit over pants and leggings and could even be worn under loose-fitting pants.

I find crescent shawls uniquely fun. This shawl starts with the lace border. Once completed, short rows shape the crescent of the shawl. Working the short rows last seems to make this shawl fly off the needles and onto the shoulders.

In early winter, I realized it would be great to have a sweater with a cowl neck. To me, cables equate with a warm sweater as well and thus was born Meanderthal, because the cables meander just a bit. Sweater is knit flat with seams. Good Karma Farm’s sport weight yarn is quite delightful to work with and it comes in 400 yard/365m) skeins.

The Pocket Poncho is knit flat in one piece with seed stitch borders and edges and a large basketweave pattern across the body. Pockets are created by folding over the front edges at an angle and sewing the bottoms shut.

This cowl uses 3 colors, although it can work with one or two or even more colors. The “purl swirl” is a sequence of 5 stitches with 1 added at the end of the round, which offsets the sequence to form the swirl. Spiral sequence knitting is simple. You work the 5-stitch pattern continually around and around until the desired length.

This pattern was initially designed in 2019 as a benefit for Project Knitwell, a non-profit volunteer organization providing knitting as a wellness tool to help people copy with stressful times.

NOTE FOR THE FREE PATTERN: Rows 11-12 should read “Knit all stitches.”

A loose-fitting, cotton-blend, scoop neck Tee with lace sides and sleeves. Perfect summer wear!

A revised version of this pattern was published 4/12/2018. It added definitions, written instructions for each charted pattern, and remedied some math for the straps.

I wanted a vest-type garment that would be open at the sides, but have one button closure, something for cool weather that would also be pretty. The yarn I used was a sock-weight yarn spun by my husband, so feel free to use any yarn within that weight category.

The man for whom this sweater was designed wanted something he could wear as business casual and a slim fit.

I love shawls, but also like being able to throw something around my shoulders that doesn’t need to be fastened.

I saw the Cassandra Cowl by Julia Barrowcliffe in Knitscene. (It is also available in Ravelry.) It was a beautiful pattern and worked really well into mittens. So, thank you, Ms. Barrowcliffe.

I love cardigans and pullovers. This design combines the best aspects of both as the front band cross closes the sweater without button holes or buttons and yet is open like a cardigan.

OK, better to have a corrected pattern than not. First 4 rows at not just knit, front band ribbing is included. Pattern revision posted 5/11/16.

ERRATA: For those who received the free version of this pattern, please note that you should follow the chart lace instructions that are in the RED border. The lace pattern follows exactly that pattern for all repeats.

This pattern is knit in the round either on two circular needles or a set of double-pointed needles. Double-pointed needles will be useful for the thumb gusset.

10/18: Another version of the cape, with increases along the purl vertical, has been added.

This shawl is made using short rows. The lace border is knit first, then you begin the short rows in stockinette.

The pattern begins in stockinette increasing 4 stitches every other until 193 stitches. This is when the peeping hearts pattern begins.

I knit several pair of fingerless mitts for gifts this Christmas using my previous Blue Cable Mitt pattern (although I modified it by only making a 2 inch cuff and then finished with ribbing).

This is a fairly simple pattern. The yarn itself is so color-lively that I opted for stockinette with left and right cables interspersed to provide interest. The cardigan could easily be knit without the cables. I also chose two different colors for the buttons to go along with the color theme.

This updated verson includes schematics and an additional size. Also clarified some of the instructions. Finished chest sizes are 35 (39, 43, 47, 51) inches, 88 (99, 109, 119, 129) cm

These mitts are a quick and easy knit. These are wonderfully warm and comfy. Enjoy!