Dolce Handknits: Book One is a collection of designs for fall and winter. The book includes some knitter’s favorites with a few of my personal favorites as well.

A fabulously simple garter stitch jacket with loads of style. This is a great first sweater project and it knits up fast.

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Last summer I spent a couple of weeks in the mountains of North Carolina learning to weave. Though it was blazingly hot during the day, the mornings were still cool and this was the cardigan I wished for as I walked to class each morning.

Avalon is the pretty way to do casual. Worked in-the-round to the armholes with a simple ribbon at the Empire waist.

Brighton is worked in one piece from the bottom up with the set-in sleeves worked separately. The change in gauge and needle size and slight shaping in the bodice creates the flattering A-line shape.

The color-blocked ribbing on this sporty little dress will work magic for your figure. I wanted a form-fitting dress so designed this with a suggested negative ease of 2” - 3”.

Feminine without being fussy, this is a lovely topper for spring dresses or to dress up jeans.

A simple cardigan in a luscious yarn, need I say more?

A great wardrobe staple with unique construction.

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Bulky yarn turns this lace kimono-style jacket into a casual look.

Helena is a great knit for transitioning from season to season. Helena is worked in pieces form the bottom up. It’s cropped to a flattering point on the waist, but is easily adjusted to your favorite length.

Jackson is all about casual comfort. Knit in a lofty bulky yarn and designed with a suggested ease of about 4” of ease for a loose fit.

Handsome military-inspired man’s sweater. The wide placket buttons to keep out the chill. The stand up collar meets more closely in the center than apparent in photo.

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It’s been a long time coming for this pattern. I first made a pair for myself almost a 10 years ago and only wrote the sparest of notes. Even though I’ve been meaning to write up the pattern I really didn’t want to have to reinvent the wheel, but I finally decided it was time.

I love cardigans and jackets because they’re so wearable. Madison started with the idea of smocking, but instead of a true smocked stitch I found this alternating rib with a twisted stitch that is so easy to work and looks very similar to smocking.

I admit it, I haven’t caught the shawl-knitting bug. I tend to like my lace simple and worked on worsted or even bulky weight yarns. But I’m forever grabbing woven wraps once the weather cools. It was high time I knit myself a wrap.

Just enough detail to keep the knitting interesting yet straight-forward enough for even the fussiest guy.

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A simply constructed jacket with a pretty portrait collar and woven stitch panel at the front.

Planning on some apple picking or leaf peeping this fall? Montauk’s tweed, rich fall colors, casual mix of buttons and asymmetry makes it a fabulous fall look with jeans or a classic pencil skirt.

The cardigan has great texture and a comfy, casual silhouette. Easy to adjust both sleeve and body length to suit your taste.

Demure in front and flirty in back; the fly-away back on this camisole makes it extra cool in summer.

A heavily textured stitch is the only embellishment to this simple wrapped and belted cardigan. This one is all about casual comfort.

This is one of those pieces that makes me yearn for cooler weather. The cropped jacket knits up amazingly fast in bulky yarn. The straight sides make it a cinch to lengthen if you prefer a longer line.

Just in time for gift knitting! Poppy is a simple basket stitch scarf embellished with knitted flowers and finished with a crocheted picot edge. The scarf is worked in a worsted weight yarn while the flowers are worked in sportweight.

Sample knit in Manos del Uruguay. Also need cable needle, stitch markers, and tapestry needle. Crochet hook is for the finishing touches.

This off the shoulder top is once again available as a single download pattern. Full-fashioned shaping at the sides gives it a sexy, corset-like fit and pretty scalloped lace defines the hem and sleeve edges.

If you want to make a statement with you knitting then Providence is for you. The houndstooth pattern is surprising simple to work and the super bulky yarn makes it fast work of it. I recommend an ease 2” - 3” of negative ease at the bust for a close fit.

I just had to have a new hiking sweater with a collar just deep enough to snuggle against the winter wind. The thick and thin yarn adds a rustic feel.

Please Note: Sausalito is a cross-front cardigan which means the two front sections overlap. A number of projects show the fronts not crossed which will result in a very, very loose fit since it is already sized for a loose fit with the fronts overlapping.

This is a great cardigan to grab and go. Just enough gathers at the Empire waist to be obvious, but not so much to add bulk.

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St. Kilda is my answer to surviving a lowered thermostat. My intention in designing this sweater was just that, to create the perfect sweater to keep me warm at home this winter.

Sydney is a great example of all-season sweater dressing worked in one of my all-time favorite yarns, Rowan’s dk weight Wool Cotton.

Fabulously fun and incredibly warm, this trapper-style Fair Isle hat is lined with faux fur fabric.

Classic, but by no means stuffy. This assymetrical one button jacket can go from work to play.

Mistake stitch rib is one of my favorite stitches. I love the deep, plump texture it creates. Paired with a soft squishy yarn like Missy Bulky and you get a super cozy tube wrap. Then add a loop stitch trim for fun.

Perfectly simple and utterly wearable.