For the June Malabrigo Freelance Pattern Project, I’ve designed a set of five candy-inspired patterns, from shawls to hats to leg-warmers. There’s even a tutorial and pattern for editing a loose t-shirt into a fashionable summer piece--with knitting!

Fletch & Oliver is a 2-pattern collection of unisex designs you can make for yourself and someone you love!

Is knitting your love language? Make something for yourself, and a friend (or just yourself, or just your friend)!

My friends were the muses for this adventure, and Lorna’s Laces provided the medium. I’m very excited about this collection, and I hope you are too!

This is the ultimate in TV, Zoom meeting, or childcare knitting. You can space out for a lot of this piece, and keep going if you like!

This is a simple lace headband to help you learn how to read a lace chart!

Enjoy these mystical, yet simple, colorwork hat, that is easily adjusted to be slouchy or a beanie, with matching mittens.

This angular design plays with how you perceive color: when the pop of color is agains the Main Color it appears different from when it is next to the Contrast Color.

This is a simple, forgiving, and engaging triangle shawl that will use up the yarn and time you have.

This drawstring cowl is an intriguing patchwork of striped, slip-stitch, and lace patterns. Each section can be lengthened, shortened, or repeated to your taste.

Victorious is a chevron-printed stole that mixes simple open lacework with garter-stitch stripes and slipped stitches. If you’re too addicted to finish, just pick up a fourth skein and persist!

This intuitive, flowing lace pattern is the perfect way to showcase a set of mini-skeins! It’s a very addictive and rewarding pattern--I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

This cowl uses slipped stitches to create a lacy detail, while keeping your neck warm, and the drawstring keeps you extra toasty, while adding a little style.

This will be one sexy mystery knit-along!

With garter stitch and elongated slipped stitches, this shawl uses consummate Vs to create an attractive, jagged, zigzag.

Zamtari is a modular shawl that plays with the direction of the knitting, as well as slipped stitches to cause cascading wings.

Inspired by the cover of Where The Wild Things Are, this blanket has a beautiful, easily memorized, and engaging lace pattern.

Slipped stitches give this modular blanket a wing-like rippling effect. Use as many colors as you wish!

First published in 1 Knit 1 Chicago kit club, Tremula acquainted a large knitting community with beaded lace knitting. The all-over lace stretches a single skein of Mrs Crosby Train Case to a generous decorative shawl.

Garralon is a striking cabled laptop case, bordered by an i-cord for structured conturing.

Sebring is an eclectic mix of slipped-stitch chevron and lace, both hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

Kimball is a full crescent shawl with a varied, and therefore innocuous set of increases. At the border there are strategic short-rows to create a zig-zag and lace scallops.

Spring Tease is a mix of torrential garter-stitch wedges and floral lace panels; it’s perfect for lightly variegated single skeins or pairings of complimentary skeins.

Hoopoe is based on the colors and patterns on the bird of its namesake, a majestic bird from Eurasia and Africa. The body is made with increases and decreases, and the wing patterns are made with short rows and slipped stitches.

The Dovetail Scarf is a modular piece that uses simple mesh lace, Indian cross-stitch, and garter stitch to create a swooping, feathery accessory.

The irregular, elongated, sloping, twisting cables mirror the beautiful yarn in a harmonious way.

Be kind; rewind! This garter-stitch stole uses short-rows to create swooping turns reminiscent of circuit boards and video store graphics!

Fight the power by showing your own power of creation! Keep your ears pricked up and never get complacent!

The final version includes:

Zelm is a beautiful, reversible, squishy 2-color brioche hat, knit in the round, with an easy to remember pattern.

This lightning zig-zag cowl is knit sideways asa tube, starting with a provisional cast-on and grafted shut for a truly seamless piece. This piece can easily be made longer by adding more repeats.

Pop-Art Pop-Tart is a fun colorwork hat with Lichtenstein-style polkadots and a Warhol color palette.

These simple mitts are set apart with their Swiss tabs to convert the cuff from long and straight to playfully scrunched. The twisted-stitch rib is elegant and flexible, and the speckled yarn gives it some sparkle!

Fleur De Love shows delicate colorwork in the special daisy stitch, and has a decrease that is created seamlessly by altering the special stitch.

Boundless Universe is a textured Infinity scarf that showcases speckled yarns by providing texture and elongated stitches.

I’ve often avoided wearing ponchos because I’ve felt constricted–I like to swing my arms, give hugs and high-fives, and reach for things on high shelves. I designed this poncho with luxurious Malabrigo Rasta so it would be comforting and warm, but also would provide freedom of movement. The diagonal slits on the front allow your arms to extend ...

Back To School is a shawl knit on a bias, using a contrast color to add a graphic edge. For a little extra credit, there are some short-row triangles to make a garter-stitch chevron (or “Charlie Brown”) stripe!

Sigrim is a five-pointed shawl that mixes cables and textured lace, perfect for showcasing variegated and speckled yarns.

Embouchure (Ahm-bǝ-shur) is the oral shaping that adds warmth and beauty to woodwind instrumentation. This cowl, with its sloped chevron and smooth texture, will add warmth and beauty to your wardrobe!

The Oliver Toque is a fun and easy way to make the visual effect of stranded colorwork without the pixelation or the hassle. It’s also a

This asymmetrical design is deceptively easy to knit up in no time. Just choose your favorite bulky yarn and get knitting!

Melvina is a rectangular lace stole knit on a bias; perfect for showcasing gradient or color-changing yarns with an unexpected diagonal.

Kelebek is the Turkish word for butterfly. These radiating short-rows in highly contrasting colors are inspired by both the turquoise jewelry of Turkey and the wings of a butterfly.

Much like the traditional vocal music from Georgia, Polyphony has three parts that go in different directions and have varying degrees of detail, but as a whole creates a warm and beautiful tapestry.

This shawl is inspired by the vines and flowers that grow haphazardly out of the stone structures in this remote region of Svaneti, Georgia.

This hat is a fun way to showcase variegated yarn, with long slipped stitches capturing their own special moments in variegation!

Amalie is a cozy colorwork hat that moves quickly and has a star at the top!

Rebel is a modular scarf made up of bottom-up triangles with a slip-stitch spine up the center of each one.

This fascinating panel worked with twisted stitches and bobbles gives the impression of a hailstorm, but maintains stylistic beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the storm with this swirling, diagonal lace beret. Enjoy the flirty lightness of this decorative hat.

These sideways-knit mitts, when worked in hand-dyed, variegated yarn, give the illusion of paint dripping down your arms, while still boasting a sweet picot detail.

Mixing a thick yarn with open lace work has a lovely effect of providing warmth while still offering a delicate beauty.

This beret will keep you warm, and the “Mistake Rib” is deceptively easy, while looking elegantly complex.

The short-rows and sharp turns result in piercing, tessellated bolts of lightning. Both wildly graphic and warm, this shawl will surely be a go-to in your closet!

Starting with a beaded picot cast-on may feel like a big to-do, but once it’s done and you start decreasing, you’ll find that the rest of the shawl is nothing!

Subconscious is a shawl in which short-rows alternately spill off of and meet up with each other, evoking branches, zippers, braids, and zebras.

The stitch patterns that pad the soles of these luxurious socks will ensure comfort on the go!

What does the fox say? That’s up to you, once you’re wearing this adorable hat! This is a good first project for exploring intarsia in the round--it can be done! By following simple, straight-forward instructions, you can be the envy of all your friends!

Beginning with a short-row-shaped garter-stitch body, this shawl fans out into flames of lace, finished with a beaded detail on each tip.

Saltwater Taffeta is a shawlette with staggered lace panels and short-rows to give it shape. Yep. Short-rows in the lace pattern. And a sideways cast-on. You’re welcome, nerds.

Jolie Rancher is a two-part scarf that wraps generously around your neck and shoulders, radiating an old-West lace pattern.

This fun statement piece will wow your friends, only take up a few hours of your time to make, and the wool is super-wash! Win-win-win!

Enjoy the lush softness of this chunky angora yarn by enveloping your calves in these cozy warmers, detailed with lace and cables to mimic spun sugar.

This adorable, top-down bonnet brings a pop of fun to cool spring days and will carry over nicely to the winter months ahead.

Chopin is a hat to use up that special, small bit of yarn in your stash that you can’t quite give up; in fact, you’d love to showcase it! Using short-rows for the color-work, you can avoid the hassle of intarsia or stranding, while adding a natural slouch.

Like the street in Chicago, this hat starts in the round, then changes directions. This pattern is made especially for variegated yarns, giving them a beautiful, painterly feel.

As a bottom-up, then sideways, shawl with an easy-to-memorize lace repeat, it goes a lot faster than the final product suggests!

Condurat is a springy, twisty design that makes bold, reversible use of two colors.

People love you! Wear your helmet! And now you can do so and also be warm when it’s chilly outside. This cowl has a simple slipped-stitch motif and straps that are specifically designed to go through the holes in a Bell helmet (the kind I have). If you have a different kind of helmet, I would suggest looking at it, gauging the placement and siz...

This sideways-knit earflap hat is a quick knit and a stash-buster in one, with super cute button details that will either keep you warm or keep those Amelia-esque earflaps out of the way!

Using a single skein of Malabrigo Twist, this top-down hat has some fun with puns--nearly all the cables are done with twisted stitches! Enjoy this quick knit, and the butter-soft baby merino will be hugging your ears in no time!

Sheridan is a scarf or a shawl, depending on the amount of slant you give the “petals” that swirl off each other. Worked in simple garter stitch, it gracefully hugs your shoulders.

This is a simple shawl that, through the use of short-rows and variegated yarn, creates radiating beams of color and a shape that hugs your shoulders without slipping.

This is a fun, versatile hat which utilizes mock-eyelet cables, rice-stitch, and short rows. Oh yes, and buttons! The brim can be worn down, to give the hat a slouchy look, or it can be folded up to become more of a beanie. The brim is knit perpendicular to the rest of the hat, but by knitting stitches on the brim together with stitches on the ...

This is a lovely shawl with an intriguingly unique construction. I was inspired by both outer-edge-up shawls and side-to-side shawls and wondered if, by using short-rows, I could combine the two in one seamless piece. The result was this stunning number with a delicate lacy edge and a vertical “grain” in the body.

This is a fun, easy pattern which requires a personal touch--which buttons are you going to use? What color? Also, feel free to add a stripe in there if you want!