After 3 years worth of Socks and a year of Shawls, we now come to a year of Mittens.

A collection of 5 patterns (+bonus) inspired by the works of Jane Austen.

This collection was created for Addicted to Sock Knitting ‘s 2016 year of socks KAL.

A collection of Socks inspired by the Thief who steals boxes and hearts.

For 2017 there are 2 options: Half Year and Full Year.

For 2017 there are 2 options: Half Year and Full Year.

This will be a read a long as well as a Knit a Long.

Help the Bees, Knit mitts! – while many domesticated honey bees are nonnative European, there are NUMERUOUS Native species of bees that are becoming endangered .

This is one of 11 planned designs coming out before the end of 2022, all using Karin’s fantastic yarns in celebration of The Periwinkle Sheep’s 20th Anniversary.

Mission Dolores is part of I Knit San Francisco

Fueled by stroopwafels and caffeine, every year Sock Madness Knitters make the most awesome socks.

Sport weight Valentine mitts for a quick gift.

When we lived in D.C. in the 80s, my dad would take me to Atari conventions, host a BBS, and write computer games.

Bleeping Socks 2018

Shawl 4 of 6 in The Wives Shawl Collection

Bleeping Socks KAL 2018

Special Price of $2 thru June 9 Midnight PST , WWKIP day.

Special Price of $2 thru June 9 Midnight PST , WWKIP day.

My friend Brenda of Phydeaux Designs, has a beuatiful Siamese cat named Smokey. His dark winter coat has these blue and brown hues.

A 3/4 Square shawl inspired by Sonya/Sofia Tolstoy

$2 thru June 9 Midnight PST to Celebrate WWKIP Day

Working on hats for the California kid who goes to college in Maine.

2018- Now on Ravelry!

Chag Chanukah Sameach!

This is the last (for now) Knit-From-Stash pattern. Over the last 3 years, I have designed over 40 pairs of socks! Seriously.

Stonework, November KFS

Special Price of $2 thru June 9 Midnight PST , WWKIP day.

Squatchers, those who watch for Big Foot.

October KFS

Seismic Shift- An allusion to the drastic change to the landscape caused by a massive earthquake. Also a defining point in your life where there is a drastic change in attitude or circumstance.

July pattern for Stonework: Knit-From-Stash Vol. 3

How is it that there isn’t already a pattern named Tussocks?! Tussocks, Hassocks, and Hummocks are lumpy, bumpy tufts of grass-like cushions or mounds. The fields look almost quilted, as do these socks with a simple knit and purl pattern.

Rayleigh Waves are undulating acoustic wave that travels over the surface of the ground in an earthquake.

Circumference 7.5”, 8.5”, 9.5”, 10.5”

Written and Charted

Palmier is French pastry sometimes called palm leaves, cœur de France, French hearts. The puff pastry curls in to sweet heart shapes.

February Knit From Stash Vol 3

February in knit From Stash has 2 designs. Tabular is the more masculine pairing in our geological sock designs.

Feldspar is the beginning of 2017 Knit-From-Stash year of sock KAL. What better way to start ofF our rock collection then with Feldspar, a rock forming mineral.

Bambuseae comprises diverse woody species from tropical regions, icluding herbaceous bamboo and woody bamboo.

Stonework: Knit-From-Stash Vol. 3

Something very large crushes a small island village. Paleontologist Kyohei Yamane goes to the island, where he discovers giant radioactive footprints and a trilobite. The alarms sound, Yamane and the residents run to find the monster. They observe a giant dinosaur returning to the ocean deep. Yamane returns to Tokyo with reports of a 165 feet (...

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Sport weight version of the Miscanthus socks.

1 of 8 patterns in Addicted to Sock Knitting ezine, Winter 2016 issue

1 of 8 patterns in Addicted to Sock Knitting ezine, Winter 2016 issue

Lianas are woody vines that are rooted in soil but grow upward, using trees and other surrounding matter as support so that it may reach out of the canopy to the sun. A giant liana, about 200 years old, grows within the Udawattekele forest of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

This has been a fox week.

September’s Pattern from Knit-From-Stash 2016 (botanics) is the 11th of a year long series. By now you probably have a good accumulation of sock yarn scraps.

As we continue through our Botanical year in Knit From Stash….

There are about 15 species of hellebores, the most common being the Lenten Rose. It was once used to “purge the veins of melancholy, and cheer the heart”. If you look it up in the meaning of Flowers, HELLEBORUS stands for ‘Relieve My Anxiety’.

Half Way through our Knit From Stash Botany Year of Socks.

Socks for your adventurer, whether it is mountain climbing or gaming.

Rhytidome is the outer layer of bark that covers the trunks of trees. It is the texture and bumps that come to mind when we think of bark.

April’s Knit From Stash 2016 sock

duille: a leaf

Calathea-a tropical South American plant that typically has variegated and ornamental leaves. It can also be called Prayer plant, Peacock Plant, Zebra Plant or Rattlesnake Plant.

Curly Willow

Pineaux

5 years old! Steampunkery has new charts, edits, and a whole new format for 2016!

Companion to the Golden Lyre socks, Kinnor has 3 strings depicted in its “instrument”. This pattern completes the Musical Trio ebook, Troika.

The companion sock to Golden Lyre, Seistron is not as elaborate and a touch simpler.

There are centuries of traditions baked into the aroma of Gingerbread.

A special Holiday Sock depicting lyres.

This is the beginning of Knit From Stash 2016 Collection.

Ancalagon is a Tolkien dragon, the name meaning “Rushing Jaws” and is befitting of many nightmarish beasts. From those that lurk in the Abyss, under the bed, and around the corner.

The first Official pattern of 2016’s KAL.

Vie De Grâces, a life of Thanksgiving.

Made for the Narnia Mini Skein sets for Phydeaux designs.

In 4 sizes

When supercooled water droplets strike an object at temperatures at or below freezing, Rime ice is formed.

Created for Phydeaux Designs Amelie Mystery Mini Skeins set.

July’s Knit From Stash KAL

Here we are, half way through Knit-From-Stash 2015. Do you find yourself buried in left overs from all your socks?

Jane Austen was “given permission” to dedicate her novel Emma to the Prince Regent.

~~ National Cherry Blossom Festival.~~

This is a variation on the lace weight Psyche Shawl for the Greek Mythology Club is in sock weight and triangular rather than square.

Whether it is Edwardian, Regency, or just Austentatious, these lace socks will dress up any outfit as you wait for Mr. Darcy to come to his senses and whisk you off to Pemberly.

Companion Sock to Steampunkery

February’s Knit-From-Stash KAL BONUS pattern

February’s Knit-From-Stash KAL pattern

It wasn’t until 2004 that I learned how to knit. Our youngest, Talia grew up with all things fiber being the norm. I took her to work with me when I taught at the LYS, to knitting conventions, and to knit nite.

Whether you are a comic book fan or just like hanging out at The Hornet on Broadway in Denver, these socks are a quick knit will subtle texture.

Materials

15 patterns in 12 months!

Now Available For individual purchase

Rána, or The Wayward, a name given to the Moon by the Noldor, Elves of the Second Clan who migrated to Valinor and lived in Eldamar.

Inspired by the John Keats poem, this cowl is to bring warmth in the cold “Dragon World”, and cheer a melancholy heart in what ever storm it faces.

’I can give you the power to fly to her house,’ the Queen said, ‘but I can’t open the door for you.’

When our friend, Sachie, went to Japan, she brought back a wonderful stitch dictionary as a gift for me. The pattern for this cowl breaks up the colour pooling tendencies that some yarns tend to have.

25 years ago, I had planned on a career in Egyptology. In 1992, I went to Cairo, climbed pyramids, went on what seemed to be a 30 min tour of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, made papyrus, walked into the heart of a pyramid, and ate chicken fried in camel fat.(Very gross! )

In The Order: 1886, Lady Igraine is a youthful-looking warrior named Isabeau D’Argyll. She and Galahad have a close but guarded relationship which started with her as his knight in training. Over the years the two become fond of one another, though their allegiance to The Order forbids them from ever acting on any underlying feelings. Isabeau’s...

Inspired by the tied rocks by artist Shizu Okino.

This is a toe up sock combining intarsia and Bavarian Twisted stitches. I know, I always have to do something a bit crazy.

Of the many names for mustaches, Cookie Duster is by far the cutest.

Mummy Socks to wrap your cold toes!

This is a mystery Shawl KAL.

Bonus PRE Super Sock Scarefest pattern for 2013

Chancery-Sampler Socks for “on the day of judgment” by Heatherly Walker

BBC is teasing us with small amounts of information regarding the upcoming Autumn 2013 season of Doctor Who.

Using a traditional Estonian Lace Motif to create a rosebud like textural sock.

This pattern was created to help fund ATOR trips. These projects are through out Europe, however mostly centered in Germany and Poland.

These are the hardest gloves to find a good clear picture of. These are an absolute guess!

Madame Thénardier’s Pauper Gloves are inspired by the mitts worn by Helena Bonham Carter in the scene at the Inn.

Every Autumn the men in our town have an opportunity to compete in the Whiskerino Challenge. Each clean shaven face is inspected and come spring the beards will be compared and a winner declared.

My daughters and I were shopping together and a bit shocked that they needed to buy “Large” garments for their size 4 and 6 frames. The beauty of the shape of women is easily lost on labels, especially when those labels try to force us to fit to their ideal. Although it uses only simple rectangular shapes, the Misbegotten Waistcoat flatters all...

Lace eyelets and cables. A little scary but femme.

Je t’ adore mon petit coeur.

A stranded colorwork sock.

Semadar is a lovely degisn worked top down with a gusset and heel flap. The lace pattern has nupps at the cuff, and is charted. There is a also a hemmed cuff with a picot turning row.

In the Sense and Sensibility (2008 BBC version), as the girls dress for a ball. Marianne bemoans the fact that she is wearing a dress that is old, has been seen in society.

A tunisian crocheted scarf with beads nestled in the stitches.

Charted and written instruction for this lace hat.

These socks come in 3 sizes, stranded colorwork socks with 2 heel types offered.

Inspired by whovian lore, the Pandorica is the ultimate prison.

Inspired by that which cannot be remembered and must not be forgotten.

Small TARDIS boxes set in argyle.

Sherlock Holmes inspired scarf.

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way! You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.” Mrs. Bennet

Super Sock Scarefest 2011

Part of a series of patterns inspired by Jane Austen’s writings, for my daughters.

The third installment of the Stellar SOTM club for Holiday yarns

Pattern now available on Ravelry.

The first installment of the Stellar Sock CLub for Holiday Yarns.

Kit #1 for Penny Rose Yarns Magic Carpet Ride SOTM

Won’t you be surprised at what’s been brewing!

Sock Madness Round 3

Blleping Socks 2010 KAL

Exclusively Designed for PennyRose Yarns Summer KAL kit

using bamboo and merino, these cabled sox can calm anyone down. 2 cuff design options

One thing most scary movies have in common is a girl who needs rescuing. She often wears high heels for a getaway

Super Sock Scarefest 2009

Worked flat then seamed tog with a 3 needle BO

I love the concept art for the Prince of Persia game.

I love the concept art for the new (dec 08) Prince of Persia game. Elika saves the Prince repeatedly through out the game.

crazy socks for gamers! WHEEE!!!

Thick Warm socks that are fast to knit.

Bleeping Socks KAL pattern

Specially Designed For Ingathering West 2008

Created For Ingathering West 2008

Super Sock Scarefest 2008

3 variations: adult worsted and fingering weight, and child small in sport weight or baby in fingering weight.

There was a tin soldier, an incomplete tin soldier, for there had not been enough tin to complete him. He stood at attention, with his one missing leg, on a table in a paper world, with a paper ballerina. She stood on one leg, with the other stretched high in the air. The steadfast soldier fell in love with her and gazed at her all day.