Category: Free Pattern

  • Summer Belt

    I always find myself scraping my brain for summer knits ideas. When I made my Spotty Top, I ran elastic through my turned hem on the bottom band to give the top more support. I started thinking about what else I could do using that technique and my thoughts turned to my love affair with…

  • Birdies

    One of my favorite things to do in the spring is to go for a walk with my camera and a big latte. This does require some awkward juggling because the camera takes two hands, but I always seem to make it work. I’ve been admiring my coffee cup sleeve a lot lately on my…

  • Miette

    I am horribly excited about this. I was going to save this for my next post because it would be my 100th, but I couldn’t wait. (I also don’t have anything else to post about.) I was going to hold out until tomorrow so I could post this earlier in the day, but here I…

  • Not-So-Itty-Bitty Bow Pattern

    Part 1: Not-So-Itty-Bitty Bow Pattern There are a lot of knit bow patterns out there but most of them had something about their construction that I didn’t like. I decided to write up how I like to make knit bows. I’m breaking the directions up into two parts to keep it from being overly long…

  • Zoz Cowl Pattern

    I had a hard time coming up with a name for this pattern. I thought about calling it Zzzs because the stitch pattern looks sort of Z shaped but I wasn’t really happy with the name. Sometimes I read numbers as letters and the other day when I looked down at the ball band to…