A collection of socks inspired by the creatures of Norse mythology. The collection is an exploration of working lace on every round mixed with rest rounds, moving the yarnovers, and adding texture.

Persephone, daughter of Demeter in Greek mythology, is kidnapped by Hades who took her to the Underworld. Demeter’s sadness at losing her beloved daughter is the explanation for the change of seasons from Summer to Autumn then Winter. Demeter bargains with Zeus for the return of her daughter.

Persephone, daughter of Demeter in Greek mythology, is kidnapped by Hades who took her to the Underworld. Demeter’s sadness at losing her beloved daughter is the explanation for the change of seasons from Summer to Autumn then Winter. Demeter bargains with Zeus for the return of her daughter.

Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon and the hunt, twin sister of Apollo.

Apollo, Greek god of the sun, music & dance, and poetry, twin brother of Artemis.

staccato: performed with each note sharply detached or separated from the others.

legato: smooth and flowing in manner, without breaks between notes.

Designed for the September/October 2023 MKAL (MOCK) for the Solid Socks group.

Designed for the May/June 2023 MKAL (Mock) for the Sock Knitters Anonymous (SKA) Group.

Swirl, whirl and maybe twirl with this textured, sideways shawl that highlights variegated yarns.

A sock with almost everything: beads, a textured picot hem, lace, cables, mirroring, and more texture. Designed for the Sock Knitters Anonymous Bead challenge from November 2022.

A unisex sock with an unusual cable pattern breaks up highly variegated yarn bring beauty to chaos.

A picot hemmed sock with a flowing lace pattern.

Designed for the May 2022 Sock Knitters Anonymous Mythical Creatures challenge, and inspired by all my research for the Three Norn Socks that I designed as the May/June SKA mystery sock.

Designed for the May 2022 Sock Knitters Anonymous Mythical Creatures challenge, and inspired by all my research for the Three Norn Socks that I designed as the May/June SKA mystery sock.

Designed for the May 2022 Sock Knitters Anonymous Mythical Creatures challenge, and inspired by all my research for the Three Norn Socks that I designed as the May/June SKA mystery sock.

Designed for the May 2022 Sock Knitters Anonymous Mythical Creatures challenge, and inspired by all my research for the Three Norn Socks that I designed as the May/June SKA mystery sock.

A unisex sock, easily memorized, brings out the best in your favorite variegated yarns. Slipped stitches and garter are broken up by rest rounds of stockinette.

Designed for the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ Sock Club and inspired by 1920’s Art Deco. The pattern will be exclusive to Club members until October 2022.

Sweeping brush strokes of lace and texture, art for your feet.

Designed for the May/June 2022 MKAL (Mock) for the Sock Knitters Anonymous (SKA) Group.

A feathered cuff, a gale on the leg, and bird wings on the foot inspired by this poem by Emily Dickinson (1861).

Nimbus: in Latin, nimbus means “rainy cloud” and is also defined as “a cloud or atmosphere (as of romance) about a person or thing”

A modern bobby sock for dancing the night away with a scalloped fold-over cuff and exaggerated cloverleaf lace.

Stylized leaves float down from the pretty picot hem, perhaps lackadaisically, to show off a dramatic variegated yarn.

Stylized, lace rosette windows with a pretty picot hem. Designed for the March 2021 Sock Knitters Anonymous Architectural Challenge.

Curly cabled columns with a pretty picot hem. Designed for the March 2021 Sock Knitters Anonymous Architectural Challenge.

“I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly …” The Sound of Music

Texture and slipped stitches form triangles pointing up on one sock and pointing down on the other. The shapes are formed with lace, but the yarnovers are worked through the back loop to close them. Or leaving them open for a lacy, more feminine look.

Stranded colorwork socks of pine trees reflected on a cool lake. Chautauqua Lake in NY--one of my very favorite places.

Designed for the September/October 2021 MKAL (Mock) for the Solid Socks group.

Designed for Circus Camp Loopy 2021.

Designed for Circus Camp Loopy 2021.

“Blue Steel” is the “model” look Ben Stiller uses in the movie Zoolander. My husband will turn and look at me with “blue steel” when he wants to make me laugh. When I saw that Leading Men had a colorway called Blue Steel, I had to make some socks for my husband with it!

Designed for the May/June 2021 MKAL (Mock) for the Sock Knitters Anonymous Group.

Unwind in an exploration of texture in socks with cozy ribbing as well as squishy garter stitches that are mirrored for balance and harmony. Sink into the rhythm of garter stitch rounds that interrupt columns of ribbing that extend from cuff to toe. Kick back and relax with this fun pattern perfect for beginning and experienced knitters alike.

A cabled “broom” cuff and short-row shaping with pretty lace to bend self-striping yarn and make it dance.

Easy, unisex socks with a little cabling and a little texture -- inspired by Beatrice & Benedick for the SKA Literary Challenge.

A pretty, lacy sock inspired by a poem by Dorothy Parker -- she speaks of threes and fours and the lace patterns reflect that.

Cabled tide pools swirl along the edge and then across waves of garter stitch.

Frothy lace and short-row bubbles show off two contrasting colors.

Dark matter does not emit light or energy, but exhibits measurable gravitational effects on large structures in the universe such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Dark energy is a theoretical repulsive force that counteracts gravity and causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.

The beauty of prickly pear cacti in bloom are captured in the lacy flowers and cabled spines of these socks.

A sweet, feminine sock with a picot hem, lots of “rest rounds”, and just enough lace to show off lightly variegated yarn. Perfect as a take along project.

Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns with only about 640 remaining.

Our sun, Sol, is the center of our solar system. Here in the Goldilocks zone, our sun gives us just the right amount of light and warmth for life.

Some times you have a skein of yarn that you love, but can’t exactly pin down how to use. This gorgeous skein has little shots of rainbows against a very contrasting white and navy background.

When I started working on these socks for the Self-Striping Sock Challenge in the Sock Knitters Anonymous group in March 2020, we’d all just been put in quarantine.

Orbits Socks is the April 2020 pattern for the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ Sock Club.

Inspired by Jane Eyre

How many times did Bones McCoy say “Dammit Jim! I’m a doctor, not a (fill in the blank)! A companion sock to my Boldly Go Socks.

Proportional Triangles: If a line is drawn in a triangle parallel to one of the sides, and it intersects the other two sides then the segments are of proportional lengths.

These downy thistles are formed with lace and elongated slipped stitches and won’t prick your fingers.

Lovely, leafy lace is perfect for ladybugs to munch on at their picnic. The lace biases just a bit to bend the beautiful, self-striping ladybug yarn.

Lacy ladybugs crawl all over your socks with a pretty picot hem and eye-of-partridge heel flap.

The Inca Trail winds through the Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu, passing through cloud forest, alpine forest, and sub-tropical jungle. The Trail passes through settlements, tunnels, and Incan ruins before terminating at the Sun Gate.

These socks start sideways with moons waxing and waning. Stitches are picked up for the cuff and then for the leg with lace that moves back and forth, highlighting the variegated yarn.

Lacy flames, a pretty picot hem, and an eye-of-partridge heel flap highlight highly variegated yarn.

Lace, slipped-stitch cables, and garter stitch texture form halos around this sock with a pretty, picot hem and patterned heel flap.

Deep Thought Socks is the June 2019 pattern for the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’ Sock Club.

The Royal Gorge, the “Grand Canyon of the Arkansas river”, is one of Colorado’s natural beauties, and at it’s deepest point, 1250 feet. The original bridge over the gorge was started in June of 1929 and was the highest suspension bridge in the world until 2001.

Margaret “Molly” Brown was a famous for her philanthropy and for surviving the sinking of the Titanic. Her mansion on Pennsylvania Street in Denver is a lovely museum.

Feminine lacy socks inspired by the legend of Silverheels with a picot cuff and dance hall dress lace,

During the early days of the Colorado gold rush, there was a booming mining camp named Buckskin Joe between the present towns of Fairplay and Alma. At its peak, Buckskin Joe had a population of approximately five thousand. In fact, at one time talk circulated of designating it the territorial capitol. And it was the site of the tale of Silverhe...

These lacy socks are inspired by “Rocky Mountain High”-- “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”

Lacy beetle wings are inspired by Doxies which are described as fairy-like with beetle wings, needle sharp teeth, and venomous.

Lacy, leafy fronds are inspired by Bowtruckles that Harry and his fellow Griffindors study in Care of Magical Creatures class under Professor Grubbly-Plank when Hagrid is off on a mission for Professor Dumbledore.

Inspired by Nifflers, small animals that Harry and his friends studied in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and who really, really like shiny things. They will tear your house apart looking for the shiny, so are not good pets.

Puffs of laciness inspired by Ginny discovering Pygmy Puffs in Fred & George’s new shop, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. She asks Mrs. Weasley if she can have one as a pet. They are little versions of puffskeins (round & covered in soft custard colored fur) but Pygmy Puffs are pink or purple.

Lacy bat-like wings are inspired by the Thestrals that Harry sees for the first time when he returns to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Lacy, crumpled horns are inspired by Luna, one of my favorite Harry Potter characters--kind, loyal, and clever. She and her father believe in the existence of some creatures that are questionable, such as the Crumpled Horned Snorkack.

Lacy flames and feathers are inspired by the day Harry meets Fawkes the Phoenix for the first time in Dumbledore’s office in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Lacy mermaid tails inspired by the merpeople in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

A twisting vortex of lace, swirling like a tempest, highlighting the speckles and color changes.

Welcome to our Sock universe and the February 2019 Rockin’ Sock Club! The Sock Club is our “Local Group” -- a collection of sock knitting galaxies. Within this sock knitting Club group, you may also have your smaller LYS galaxy or knitting circle.

Light shining through windows, welcoming you home …

An early morning glows, through fog and mist

Which Hogwarts House do you belong to?

Which Hogwarts House do you belong to?

Which Hogwarts House do you belong to?

Which Hogwarts House do you belong to?

Inspired by Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnorok, cabled feathers fly down this sock like the Valkyrie in their last, fatal battle with Hela.

Tony Stark invented the ARC reactor to save his life in the first Iron Man movie, and it powers the Iron Man suit.

Ruffled, lacy, toe-up socks made for dancing …

My inspiration for this shawl was the Firefly episode, “Shindig” where Kaylee wears an over the top dress to a fancy party. The dress is epic, very antebellum southern belle.

Yeasayer: a person with a positive, confident outlook (just like my dad)

A happy, easy lace sock to highlight those speckled yarns that tickle your fancy. Starting with a feminine picot hem, these mirrored socks use a few simple lace patterns keep your attention and make the speckles sing.

Roll the dice to decide your knitting fate … This sock pattern has six simple lace patterns -- use a six-sided dice to choose the lace pattern you’ll knit next on your sock.

A flirty, lace sock designed to use up leftovers. A simple, mirrored lace pattern is highlighted by using yarns that move from light to dark. The main colors used are cream yarns with speckles, and the contrast colors are pinks and purples. You could also use just two colors or even just one.

Manipulating a self-striping yarn with an interesting stitch pattern, short-rows, or unusual construction can bring out the beauty of the yarn.

Manipulating a self-striping yarn with an interesting stitch pattern, short-rows, or unusual construction can bring out the beauty of the yarn.

Manipulating a self-striping yarn with an interesting stitch pattern, short-rows, or unusual construction can bring out the beauty of the yarn.

Manipulating a self-striping yarn with an interesting stitch pattern, short-rows, or unusual construction can bring out the beauty of the yarn.

“Have fun storming the castle!” is my favorite line from The Princess Bride.

“Have fun storming the castle!” is my favorite line from The Princess Bride.

“Have fun storming the castle!” is my favorite line from The Princess Bride.

I’ve planted many flowers in my yard to attract butterflies (and bees and birds). The speckled yarn has all the colors of my favorite flowers.

Loaded with detail, these beautiful lace socks are a feat for the feet! Starting with an adorable picot cuff, these socks feature a faux cable along both sides of the foot and back of the heel, with festive cocktail umbrellas across the top of the foot.

In Northanger Abbey, the Bath pump-room is a meeting place for the fashionable; the place to see and be seen.

Designed for the Fandom challenge in the Sock Knitter’s Anonymous group, this sock was inspired by the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Cordelia’s wish is granted by Anya that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. Willow is a vampire and she says “bored now” before she rips your skin off and eats you.

Anyone can be a princess, especially on Tuesdays -- a pretty picot hem with sparkled “jewels” and bands of lace also highlighting the sparkles.

The chevron pattern bends the self-striping yarn into strata, or layers, with a ribbed layer, a stockinette layer, and a lace layer, defined with slipped-stitches.

A stretchy, ribbed cowl with simple increases and decreases to keep it interesting.

A stretchy, ribbed hat with simple increases and decreases to keep it interesting.

Stretchy, ribbed fingerless mitts with simple increases and decreases to keep them interesting.

convex: having an outline or surface curved like the exterior of a circle or sphere such as a convex lens

A mostly ribbed sock with just enough easy-to-memorize patterning to keep it interesting, The ribs meander with double increases and decreases forming little buds and leaves.

You know how a blanket can look when you fold it up really quickly and throw it in the closet.

Argyle is a traditional pattern from Scotland. I thought it would be fun to take something traditional and see what happens when things go a little awry.

At the beginning of the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls, Lorelei goes to Luke’s for coffee:

My kids and I watch all the superhero movies and TV shows. This sock was inspired by Oliver Queen and the Green Arrow.

This Collection was inspired by the TV show Gilmore Girls.

This Collection was inspired by the TV show Gilmore Girls.

This Collection was inspired by the TV show Gilmore Girls.

A school of fish swim up the sock using lace, cables, and slipped stitches, and bubbles are formed with a mock cable stitch.

A cabled and textured hat worked in the round, and suitable for both men and women.

Cabled and textured fingerless mitts worked in the round, and suitable for both men and women.

A cabled and textured cowl worked in the round, and suitable for both men and women.

These socks are a sampler of slip-stitch patterns designed to use up leftover sock yarn. The socks are mirrored with the colors reversed, and you only work with one color at a time.

A simple and fun pattern to break up your self-striping yarn, crazy variegated, or stashbust your leftovers. Short-row triangles are worked one way, and then filled in with triangles worked the opposite way with plain rounds worked in between.

A fully-reversible, textured cowl worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

A textured hat worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

Textured fingerless mitts worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

A pretty, toe-up lace sock designed to look like Chautauqua Lake.

I was a teenager in the 80’s, and I took dance classes and was on my high school pom squad. Loving and dancing to Prince music was inescapable. Add a skein of yarn called Raspberry Beret and these socks were born. Paisley Park is the name of Prince’s home in Minnesota where he created so much of his music.

A fun, wavy, textured sock, easy to memorize for the sock knitter on the go.

A radiating star motif dances across this cable and lace sock.

Your socks can Boldly Go where no socks have gone before.

Need a Pussyhat but want a light weight version for the summer or your warmer climate?

An Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass inspired sock that begins with stranded bowtie colorwork and flows into textured bowties for the twin Tweedle Brothers.

Little cat paws prance down the leg of this pretty, picot hemmed sock; the paws are formed by easy lace and garter texture.

A fun, crocodile textured sock, formed with slipped stitches and lace and inspired by the poem in Alice in Wonderland.

The Caterpillar wraps around the leg of the sock with textured mushrooms on the heel and instep. The Caterpillar, mushrooms, and little tufts of grass are formed with cables and slipped stitches; the socks are mirrored.

Steaming teapots dance over this fun and fanciful sock. The sock begins with a picot cuff, lacy steam, and teapots are formed with cables, slipped stitches, and texture.

A picot hem and pretty lace make the cuff of this sock look like pastry with a fluted edge. Hearts are formed with both lace and cables down the leg and onto the instep. The heel flap has another large heart.

A fun, fanciful unisex sock with checkerboard texture for the cuff and turtle shell, and cables and slipped stitches to form the flippers.

A fresh breath of spring planting in a pretty lace sock. Worked toe-up in three sizes, the furrows are formed with elongated slip stitches and garter rib which stream into the lace “seeds”.

Inspired by Poison Ivy, a villain from Batman, ivy leaves grow down the front and back of the legs of this fun sock, formed with slipped stitches and easy cables. The colors are worked one round at a time and can be reversed. The pattern is also mirrored.

A simple and fun pattern to break up your self-striping yarns or stashbust your leftovers. The pattern is mirrored and uses slipped stitches.

A pretty, lace sock for a fresh breath of spring after a cold, snowy winter. Worked top down with a picot cuff and patterned heel flap.

A lacy sock with flowing streams of eyelets and slipped-stitches and a pretty picot cuff.

The Bird of Paradise Flower is a dramatic and exotic bloom. The Mango Tango yarn demanded a dramatic sock, and I found it very cheery to knit during a couple of April snowstorms.

Do you have a favorite book? Or a whole pile of them? Books you read over and over because it’s comforting, like visiting an old friend when you’ve had a bad day? I have several … a small bookcase full.

I love the texture of the SKYP (Sl1, K1, YO, PSSO) stitch, I needed to knit some “man” socks for my dad, and the March Sock Knitters Anonymous Challenge was Cables. I put them all together for these unisex socks, suitable for both men and women. Four sizes (S, M, L, & XL) are charted so you can make these socks for almost anyone.

My boys love the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. They read them over and over … The stitch pattern for this sock is a modified version of a stitch pattern called Hurdles. The books are about a boy in middle school, and there are lots of hurdles when you’re 13 years old.

A little sock magic … pixie dust and fairy wings.

I’ve been watching Doctor Who since the 4th Doctor. I love Sci-Fi, so I knit Time Vortex Socks for the Sock Knitters Anonymous Fandom Challenge. I loved the stitch pattern, and decided it needed to be a hat and cowl set

I’ve been watching Doctor Who since the 4th Doctor. I love Sci-Fi, so I knit Time Vortex Socks for the Sock Knitters Anonymous Fandom Challenge. I loved the stitch pattern, and decided it needed to be a hat and cowl set

After I designed the Snow Swept Collection, I loved the stitch pattern so much, it cried out to be a sock too.

I love bright, variegated yarns -- yarns often known affectionately as clown barf. Sometimes these yarn seems hard to tame when knitted up. So jump in the clown car and embrace wacky clown colors.

The snow in Colorado tends to be dry snow, light and powdery. And the wind blows all the time. The cables on these mittens sweep the garter stitch across and around, like the wind swirling the snow through the air and across the ground.

The snow in Colorado tends to be dry snow, light and powdery. And the wind blows all the time. The cables on this cowl sweep the garter stitch across and around, like the wind swirling the snow through the air and across the ground.

The snow in Colorado tends to be dry snow, light and powdery. And the wind blows all the time. The cables on this hat sweep the garter stitch across and around, like the wind swirling the snow through the air and across the ground.

“Have fun storming the castle!” is my favorite line from The Princess Bride.

A sweet, feminine lace sock with a picot hem and easy to memorize stitch pattern. Perfect as a take along project.

A warm, squishy aviator-style hat with knit-as-you-go earflaps formed by short-rows. This is the “simple” version with garter brim and a blank canvas for stripes or other colorwork.

A warm, squishy aviator-style hat with knit-as-you-go earflaps formed by short-rows. This is the “At Rest” version with garter ribbed brim and wings curled as if at rest. The stitch pattern is written and charted.

A warm, squishy aviator-style hat with knit-as-you-go earflaps formed by short-rows. This is the “In Flight” version with garter ribbed brim and outstretched wings. The stitch pattern is written and charted.

A textured sock worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. Four sizes (S, M, L, & XL) are charted so you can make these socks for almost anyone.

Textured fingerless mitts worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

A textured hat worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

A feather and fan sock, lacy and feminine, but just a little askew, a little off center. The cable columns take a crooked path down the sock, emphasizing the bias texture.

A fully-reversible, textured cowl worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. The stitch pattern is easy to memorize, so this is a great “take-along” or gift project.

A textured sock worked with only knits and purls, and suitable for both men and women. Four sizes (S, M, L, & XL) are charted so you can make these socks for almost anyone.

A pretty, lacy sock with a picot hem and texture to keep it interesting.

I’ve been watching Doctor Who since the 4th Doctor. I love Sci-Fi, so I knit this sock for the Sock Knitters Anonymous Fandom Challenge.

“Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage …”

Bold chevrons of slip-stitch cables cross garter ribs in this sock.

These fingerless mitts are fun to knit and fun to wear! The masks are formed by working short-rows. Knit with 2 colors of fingering weight yarn or using your stash of leftovers. They coordinate with both the Secret Identity Cowl and the Secret Identity Hat.

This super-stretchy hat is fun to knit and fun to wear! The masks are formed by working short-rows. Knit with 2 colors of fingering weight yarn or using your stash of leftovers. The hat coordinates with the Secret Identity Mitts and the Secret Identity Cowl.

This super-stretchy cowl is fun to knit and fun to wear! The masks are formed by working short-rows. Knit with 2 colors of fingering weight yarn or using your stash of leftovers. And it has it’s own secret: work an I-cord, thread it through the masks to convert it into a slouchy hat!

A fun, feminine ruffle leads to pretty sails flying around the leg of Mrs. Anne Wentworth’s sock. The lacy sails are formed with slip-stitches and garter stitch.

Lacy slip-stitch butterflies dance around this feminine sock with a picot cuff and double eye-of-partridge heel. This design was inspired by the Whirling Butterfly perennials that grow in my backyard; they dance in the breeze and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The slip stitches enhance the shape of the butterflies and are pretty in both ...

A graphic sock with “sails” crossing back and forth, and a pyramid gusset that looks like another large sail.