Get a little wind in your sails with the Tailwind wrap! Panels of stripes, simple lace, and chevrons are interspersed with garter sections for a little of this, a little of that, and always something to pique your interest!

The Starfall shawl is a large asymmetrical shawl pattern that uses a simple stitch pattern to big effect!

The Carmanah socks are toe-up socks that use short rows to shape the heel turn. The socks feature an interesting stitch pattern that includes a double stitch, a bit of ribbing, a few slipped stitches, and a simple cross than can be worked with or without a cable needle. While this pattern is written for double point needles, it can easily be co...

The Grey Haven cowl features a simple textured stitch made up of knit and purl stitches. The cowl starts with a provisional cast on and is knit flat on the bias from one end to the other, and then the ends are grafted together. The pattern is easy to memorize and it’s reversible, too!

I needed a hat. I wanted it to be lightweight yet warm, and if it used up some of the leftover sock yarn I had kicking around, so much the better! So, I turned to one of my favourite stitch patterns, the cross stitch, because I haven’t found a yarn that doesn’t work with it, and the result? Twinkle!

Wassail, wassail all over the town…

Delicate and sweet-scented, the freesia symbolizes friendship and trust. The flower was named after one botanist (Friedrich H.T. Freese) by another (Christian P. Ecklon) as a tribute to their friendship. This top-down, triangular shawl was inspired by these beautiful blooms, and uses an unusual lace pattern for the body and a simpler lacework p...

Here on Vancouver Island, arbutus trees are everywhere. They shed their bark all summer long, and in the fall, robins flock to them, feasting on the ruby red berries. They’re a tough tree, choosing poor sandy soil over the rich loam of the west coast rain forest, perching on rocky outcrops, leaning towards the ocean. Both the colour of this yar...

Inspired by Ralph Vaughn William’s work for solo violin and orchestra of the same name, The Lark Ascending shawl features delicate knitted lace that reminds me of bird wings. The lace is worked on both the right and wrong sides of the shawl, making it an interesting project for intermediate knitters. The sample shawl is a size small and was wor...

The Shooting Star Socks feature a fun cross-stitch pattern that’s fantastic for variegated yarns, but looks great in tonals and solids, too. While this pattern is written for double point needles, it can easily be converted to whatever needles you like to use for your socks - small circumference circulars, Magic Loop, or two circular needles.

The Licorice Twist socks are worked from the toe up and use short rows to shape the heel turn. The sock features a simple twisted stitch pattern that can be worked with or without a cable needle, and includes instructions for a regular or reinforced toe, and a reinforced heel turn.

Welcome spring with the Apple Blossom Toe-Up Socks! A neat little Estonian button pattern blooms across the front of these socks, while the sole and back of the leg are in stockinette stitch. Add in a rounded toe, a short row heel turn, and a heel flap that doesn’t require picking up stitches, and these socks will be ready before you say “April...

The Stargazer socks are cuff-down socks that feature a fun cross-stitch pattern that’s fantastic for variegated yarns, but looks great in tonals and solids, too. While this pattern is written for double point needles, it can easily be converted to whatever needles you like to use for your socks - small circumference circulars, Magic Loop, or tw...

The Stargazer socks are toe-up socks that use short rows to shape the heel turn. The sock features a fun cross-stitch pattern that’s fantastic for variegated yarns, but looks great in tonals and solids, too. While this pattern is written for double point needles, it can easily be converted to whatever needles you like to use for your socks - sm...

The Thicket Toque is a unisex, close fitting hat which uses a twisted stitch pattern inspired by the twist and tumble of blackberry vines. It’s the perfect sort of hat for a long walk on a chilly autumn day! The pattern includes both charts and line-by-line written instructions, as well as instructions for working the stitch pattern with and wi...

The Windflower shawl is worked from the top down, beginning with an extra-long, stretchy garter tab to alleviate issues with the dreaded crescent shawl hump. The body of the shawl is an easy-to-memorize lace pattern. The lace itself is only worked on the RS rows, but the WS rows do have purl-through-the-back-loop stitches to give greater defini...

Just outside my office window is a mature blue spruce. When I’m working, I often pause to look at it - not only because it’s beautiful, but because a family of house finches have nested here, and I see them all the time, popping in and out to feed their chicks. The finches aren’t the only birds to frequent the spruce, though. Just a moment ago,...

On the longest day of the year, people all over the world gather to celebrate. This tradition has taken place since ancient times, and even now, people flock to the great solar temples of the ancient world to mark the occassion: Karnak in Egypt, Giants’ Churches in Finland, Newgrange in Ireland, Casa Malpais in the United States, and perhaps th...

Winter has set in, and the first frosts have arrived. Food is scarce, so birds turn to the briar, where rose hips have been sugared with frost and the last of the blackberries hide amidst purple winter leaves.

The night is clear. Wood has been gathered and stacked. Hearth fires have been doused, and windows and doors have been strewn with garlands of flowers and greenery. The cattle have been gathered and are lowing in their corrals. All are waiting for the Beltaine fires to be lit.

The winter solstice - the longest night of the year. The hearth is decorated with holly and evergreens, and the house smells of gingerbread and pine. The Yule log crackles in the fireplace while frost leaves its filigree over the window panes. The longest night of the year, Draw the Frost of Yule shawl a little closer, light a candle, and think...

It can be felt long before it arrives. The sky grows dark, like a bruise, and the air is hushed, waiting. Then, in the distance, a rumble, just as the full moon begins to rise, peeking above the horizon for a brief moment before being swallowed by the storm: Thunder Moon.

There are songs about it. There are sayings about it, too, but astronomically and astrologically speaking, the blue moon isn’t all that special. It only became special when cultures converted from a lunar-based calendar to our modern solar-based calendar. And yet, the blue moon somehow captures our imagination. Maybe it’s because we like the id...

There are songs about it. There are sayings about it, too, but astronomically and astrologically speaking, the blue moon isn’t all that special. It only became special when cultures converted from a lunar-based calendar to our modern solar-based calendar. And yet, the blue moon somehow captures our imagination. Maybe it’s because we like the id...

Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas, the festival of Lugh, the Festival of Breads, or the Festival of Harvest, occurs on August 1 or 2. This is a sun festival, where ancient peoples celebrated the sun and the coming harvest. Hearths were decorated with barley and oats, with bread and fruit, and cobs of corn. Bread was shaped into the form of the s...

There is treasure to be found on the beach after a storm - not gold coins or messages in bottles, but little shards of glass, polished by the waves and glittering in the sun. The most common colour of sea glass is brown, but if a person is lucky enough, and studies the strand with a keen eye, she might find blue, yellow, purple, or perhaps, jus...

Warm weather, long nights, and the great outdoors — summer is camping season, and camping means campfires! Campfire is a unisex, close fitting toque which uses a textured slip-stitch to invoke sparks rising up towards towering firs and a star-studded night sky.

The Salish Sea shawl is a crescent shaped shawl that features a wave-like lace pattern inspired by sunrise over the Salish Sea, and an arrowhead lace border. The pattern contains three sizes, with both charts and line-by-line written instructions. The dark blue shawl was knit with Robin & Wren’s Rainbird organic fingering in the Stormy Weat...

After the heat of an August day, the moon rises fat and red on the horizon. In the fields, a gentle breeze sends the wheat stirring, the ripening heads bending to pay homage to the rising moon. The Grain Moon shawl is a crescent-shaped shawl worked from the top down with a textured pattern which recreates the effect of wind rushing over wheat f...

pet·ri·chor (ˈpeˌtrīkôr/), noun - a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

Ah, summer! The sweet scent of roses drifts on the wind, and in the garden, strawberries, glossy and ripe, wait to be picked. This is the time of warm evenings and long, lazy days. In 2016, the Rose Moon falls on June 20, right before the summer solstice.

It is a known fact that a person never knows when he or she might be in need of a shrubbery. There are, it is rumoured, a long lost order of knights who, when encountered, demand such a thing, and will not take Ni for an answer. This hat is the solution to such an encounter. Now, when you go walking through the woods, you, or whomever is wearin...

Slowly, slowly, the snow melts away. Buds swell, and in the skies, birds make their way north. Spring is near! The Sap Moon is the time of tapping maples, of the sugar festivals, of the lengthening of days, and the surety that another winter has passed. Casts of earthworms now appear in the ground, inviting robins to make their return, and crow...

There is nothing quite like the silence of a moonlit winter’s night. The world seems to stop, while in the heavens, surrounded by a halo of iridescent light, the moon watches on.

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Frost Moon is the last full moon of autumn. For me, it’s the time of long walks through swishing leaves, and blue mornings crisp with frost. The Frost Moon shawl calls to mind the beauty of leaves sugared by a dusting of ice, a luminous blue halo around the moon, and the brittle, piercing diamonds of a cold, starry night.