Big Ol’ Hug is an ideal blend of squishy garter stitch and cozy tweedy yarn that wraps you in the softest, warmest embrace. This easy fireside knit features a core-warming bib that can be worn front or back, or flipped up over your head for a quick hood. The perfect accessory for a windy autumn stroll or a chilly office.

Wrapturous is a comfy, drapey, boxy, oversized V-neck pullover with deep drop shoulders and fitted sleeves. Easy to knit flat in pieces with i-cord edging that creates the perfect architectural detail at the seams and hems. Knit up in a supple and luxurious merino/silk mix, you’ll want to wrap yourself in this morning, noon, and night.

With 3” of positive ease, this lacey little tee is perfect to layer over another t-shirt or tank top, or to slip over your bathing suit for a day at the beach.

Keep your auricles stylishly warm with this garter rib beanie worked all in one piece. Strategic increases and decreases create a whorled rib pattern that dips down over the ears creating a subtle earflap. In other words, an earflap hat that doesn’t require three separate pieces and mid-row cast-ons.

Shire is a heavily cabled scarf that uses 4-stitch cable crossings on both right and wrong sides to produce alternating bands of cables and lattice. And it’s reversible! Both sides look the same, but are not identical.

Irene Adler. Her red fingernails. Those red lips. The little red Christmas gift she leaves for Sherlock on his mantle. Love and danger.

Interesting knitting begins right away with a two-color corrugated ribbing. Following a plain round of knitting, the Norwegian-inspired hearts are wrought to life with stranded colorwork. After a two-color purl turning round, you’re on to the crown decreases, either in the contrasting color or in the main color.

A simple stranded cowl featuring an allover graphic star pattern. Pattern includes instructions for two versions--an Everyday version in worsted weight yarn and a Luxury version in yarns of cashmere and silk.

A reversible hat that can be worn cable-side out, shown in Wool of the Andes Aurora Heather (green), or “squiggles” side out side, shown in Cascade 220 Fuchsia (pink).

Reindeer under a starry sky animate this hot water bottle cozy with no shaping.

This scarf was inspired by one of the most famous houses designed by one of the most famous architects—Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like the house built partially over a waterfall, this scarf replicates the clean vertical lines of the house’s cantilevered terraces, softened by fringe that represents the flowing water below. The architect...

This design combines two of my favorite things—hearts and ornate iron scrollwork. As I am a knitter, not a smith, I have used my needles to forge yarn into a sweater.

This sweet hat combines two of my favorite things—hearts and ornate iron scrollwork. As I am a knitter, not a smith, I have used my needles to forge yarn into a hat.

A big, comfy cabled sweater. That about sums ’er up.

No cable needle required! The swirly design is achieved through increasing and decreasing.

This scarf began as a swatch for an interesting cable pattern I found in one of my stitch dictionaries. I think the idea was to either use one repeat of the cable in a panel of stitches or to space them on a background of reverse stockinette stitch. Not knowing any better, I worked one repeat after another, which turned out to make a pretty nic...

Aghaa’ is Navajo for wool, and Ála’ is Navajo for hands. Put them together like I did, and you have “wool hands.” Navajo has some rather complex word arrangements, so I don’t know if the name is correct, but like these mittens, it’s inspired.

Get the elegant and intricate look of cables without the work! If you can knit in the round, increase, decrease, knit, and purl, you can make these mitts. With a gusset thumb, they come off the needles ready to wear.