The Helmsley Socks are my favorite socks to knit around the holidays! I designed these to be knitted in West Yorkshire Spinner’s Signature 4-ply in their holiday sparkle colorways. As a professional church musician, I spend a lot of time in church in December (as well as knitting socks for gifts!), so these are named after my very favorite Adve...

The Starry Cup Cozy is a fair-isle cup cozy meant to fit a cardboard or reusable cup. It’s written for magic-loop style knitting, but you can also use 9” circular needles or double-pointed needles if you prefer.

The Forget-Me-Not Cowl is a fair isle cowl worked in mini skeins against one background color. It begins with a provisional cast-on, and then the piece is worked in the round using the stranded colorwork technique. It is finished by grafting together with a moebius twist for maximum coziness!

The Anne Elliot Socks are the fourth in a collection of patterns named after women from Jane Austen novels. I like to design the socks with an eye to what the character might like to knit. Anne Elliot may not offer much of her inner life to outsiders, but she’s faithful to her sailor, and I chose a seersucker texture pattern that looks beautifu...

The Natalie Cowl is a fair isle cowl worked in gently-shifting colors It begins with a provisional cast-on, is worked in the round, and is

The Mary Bennet Socks are the third in a collection of patterns named after women from Jane Austen novels. I like to design the socks with an eye to what the character might like to knit. Mary Bennet doesn’t like much of a fuss, but I could see her knitting a simple but pretty pattern like this at her mother’s insistence. It’s practical: the te...

The Kitty Bennet Socks are the second in a collection of patterns named after women from Jane Austen novels. I like to design the socks with an eye to what the character might like to knit. Kitty Bennet is a bit annoying and impatient, but she likes pretty things. I imagine her being able to follow a simple, easily memorizable lace pattern that...

The Jane Bennet Socks are the first in a collection of patterns named after women from Jane Austen novels. Jane Bennet is patient, quiet, and determined. These socks need a bit of patience and determination, as the lace pattern is unrelenting! I hope you, too, can imagine Jane Bennet knitting these socks.

The Emma Woodhouse Socks are the fifth in a collection of patterns named after women from Jane Austen novels. I like to design the socks with an eye to what the character might like to knit. Emma Woodhouse may be hasty to make judgements about people, but she had an amazing governess, and I like to think she would be a good knitter. And she’d p...

The Faye Cowl is a one-piece cowl that is knitted in two parts: the outside first, on larger needles, and then the inside second, on smaller. There are separate charts for the inside and outside of the cowl, and once it is complete the inside is pulled through the outside (folded in half) and grafted together. The two different needle sizes all...