Geologica is a collection of five shawls, all featuring similar textured short row bodies. Patterns may be purchased individually or as part of the whole collection. If you choose to purchase an individual pattern, no credits or discounts will be given on the purchase of the entire collection.

\What to do when life gives you The World’s Sloppiest Apartment Renovation? Why, knit socks to mock the occasion! Designed in commemoration of the sandwich left behind on my hallway floor, Sandwich on My Floor features a sandwich stitch cuff (for the sandwich) and a ribbed pattern that’s interrupted (for the disruption to my home life), all kni...

What do you do when you run out of names for patterns? You turn to your Instagram followers. What do your Instagram followers do? Talk about the poutine you had for lunch earlier that weekend!

I designed Becoming in the year leading up to my 40th birthday. This shawl is a mediation on life and growth and change, as reflected in the life cycle of a flower. It is a contemplation of how each stage in our lives is a celebration of who we have become, yet an acknowledgment that we are always growing, always changing, always becoming.

Ever since my parents saw Jaws on one of their first dates, sharks have had a special place in my family. When I spotted a skein called “Shark Bite” from DJ Fleesh, I knew I had to turn it into a fun pair of shark-themed socks for my mom, and so Carcharodon was born. These toe-up ankle socks feature a simple textured cable pattern reminiscent o...

I have a fondness for weird and unexpected food combinations. The most questionable is the ballpark “favorite” here in Cleveland, the Slider Dog, which is topped with mac and cheese, bacon, and Froot Loops. Why? I’m not entirely sure, but I usually buy at least one every baseball season. Do I enjoy it? I still can’t answer that, but I do enjoy ...

Having lived along the border of Cleveland and Shaker Heights for many years, I read Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with great enjoyment of her descriptions of this quirky little perfectly planned suburb and the messy realities of life within. Inspired by the book, Little Fires features brightly colored flames breaking up orderly ribbed c...

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I’ve never been a morning person. Most days, I’m frantically searching for everything I need before I miss the bus. I’m lucky if I can find my hat, never mind making sure I put it on the right way. And so Reversibility was born. It features a stitch pattern that looks great on both sides and ribbed crown decreases so that it can be worn either ...

When the 50 Shades of Grey movie came out in February of 2015, everyone’s Facebook feeds were inundated with posts and opinions of the book and movie. Katie of Yarn Love decided the best way to counteract all the Grey was with a special rainbow colorway, 50 Shades of Yay. And I decided that such a colorway needed to be knit into a thong.

Named by my friend Audrey, Awesomesauce is a fun and easy cowl alternating solid garter stitch stripes with variegated lace sections.

Several years ago, I was about 4000 miles away from having airline mileage status for the first time. A friend in the same situation started looking for places we could go to get the miles we needed, and created a plan to go to Omaha for a day.

Swimming Upstream is a lacy cowl based on the stitch pattern used in my River Ness socks. Despite the name, Swimming Upstream is a quick and easy knit, perfect for both solid and variegated yarns.

When my sister asked for birthday socks, I designed this pair for her.

My sister asked me to design her a pair of mismatched socks for her birthday. Upon seeing the first sock, she declared “these socks aren’t for someone with OCD!” and so they were named the OCDon’ts.

Decorate your feet with these charming colorwork socks. A pansy motif highlights your favorite hand dyed color ways.

Suitable for an adventurous beginner, these mitts feature a crochet chain provisional cast on, turned picot hem, cables, slip stitches, and an eyelet edging. Links are provided to explanations of potentially unfamiliar techniques.

Two cables travel in parallel down the leg of this sock, cross together at the gusset, then continue their parallel journeys to the toe. Knit in a sportweight yarn, these socks are cozy and warm

Originally part of the Three Irish Girls “Sock It To Me” club in February 2015, published as Ewe R Made 4 Me.

Some designs take awhile to come to be. I loved the idea of this hat, with its combination of garter rib and cables, but my early prototypes just weren’t right. I put the idea aside, worked on other things, always planning to get back to it but never actually doing it.

Sweet Home Kentucky is the first of three hats named for my friend Rhonnie. I had been working on a hat combining garter/broken rib and an offset cable for some time, but it wasn’t working out. I had put it aside and (mostly) forgotten about it. When Rhonnie came to visit, she found an early prototype and insisted I finish writing it. As a resu...

Based on my Selkie Socks, the Selkie Hat features traditional gansey stitch patterns. Knits, purls, and twists/cables work together to create this simple, classic hat. A few rounds of contrasting color add visual interest and a chance to make a hat that is uniquely yours.

Igneous Petrology is a wide, shallow shawl that can easily double as a scarf. Knit in a luxurious wool/cashmere/silk sport weight yarn, it makes both a beautiful addition to your wardrobe as well as a warm accessory for the winter months.

Knit in a DK wool/silk blend that is both rustic and elegant, Glaciology is a cozy, textured shawl for fall and winter.

Designed during a trip to Scotland, River Ness socks are named for the river that flows through Inverness. Just like their swiftly moving namesake, these socks, with their easily memorized lace pattern, will fly off your needles.

Lichenometry is a top down triangular shawl. The main shawl body is formed by textured short rows. Once the body is complete, the live stitches are picked up and the lace edging is worked.

Granitoid, the simplest piece in Geologica, is a triangular shawlette worked from the top down. Textured short rows create the body of the shawl and a simple looping edging is worked on the live stitches to complete the shawl. Granitoid serves as a introduction to the construction method utilized in several of my other shawls, including Licheno...

Biostratigraphy is a top-down crescent shawl featuring a sampler of stitch patterns. Beginning with textured short rows, the shawl organically transitions through different layers of texture and lace.

Join dozens of tiny sea turtles as they make the journey to the sea. These toe-up socks feature a lace pattern reminiscent of turtles and end with a cuff of gentle waves on the ocean.

Top-sider is a cuff-down sock knit in lace and twisted rib. Pattern instructions are both written and charted.

Steps Stately is a toe-up sock designed for sportweight yarn. Paired increases and decreases create a braided appearance.

Eve’s Leaves is a fun little pattern…Not so much practical underwear as a way to encourage your significant other’s appreciation of your knitting (and look the other way as you bring even more yarn home).

Superheroes is a shawl designed for two yarns of different weight and provide an excellent way to play with different colorways: Same colorway on two different bases? Variegated worsted weight with a semi-solid fingering weight? Two contrasting solids? A scrappy shawl made up of mini-skeins? The choice is yours and the possibilities nearly endl...

Named for the Ancient Greek city located in Southern Turkey, Perge features columns of stockinette divided by small lace columns. Perge is worked toe-up and features a gusset-and-heel flap construction. Instructions are given for customizing foot length.

Anadara Blanket is a blanket version of the Anadara shawl. Based on pi shawl construction, it features expanding sections of garter rib ending in a delicate scalloped border.

A delightful bottom-up, round-yoke A-line dress for the special little girls in your life, Florisa starts with a leafy hem, then transitions into a stockinette section with simple shaping…perfect for those fun handpainted yarns and coordinating trim colors. Yoke decreases are incorporated into the lacy detail at the collar.

Mariee is a top down sock based on a Sock Architecture from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters. Cables develop throughout the arch expansion.

Evolution: A Cowl. A quick knit in a bulky yarn, this is sure to become a favorite for yourself and for quick gifts for friends and family.

A toe-up sock featuring a heavily cabled instep, Nerodia is actually a fairly gentle intro to cabling…all the stitches are knit and all the cables cross the same way!

An elegant, graceful shawl, knit in the round from the center out. The square design features cables and simple lace motifs, and can also be knit at a heavier gauge to create a beautiful throw or baby blanket.

Toe-up, cable sock pattern with small lace motif. Pattern is charted. Suitable for any fingering-weight sock yarn.

Simple triangular shawl, worked using dk/light worsted yarn. There is lace worked on wrong side rows.

Socks of Sunshine and Happiness (SoSaH!) are a top down sock based on a modified Sky Sock Architecture from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters. You should not need the book knit these socks, but it’s a great book and well worth purchasing anyway.