These stashbusting ankle socks are the perfect way to use up partial balls of sock yarn. Mix and match contrasting colors for a colorblocking and striping extravaganza. Sized for a standard women’s foot, these feminine socks feature an eye-catching picot cuff, an afterthought heel and a rounded toe. To make your knitting stress-free, the patter...

“Sophistication” is the vocab word for this hat, which features a sleek contrasting-color band along the brim and alternating, disappearing cables set against a reverse stockinette backdrop.

Nothing babyish for fourth graders, this hat features chic stripes that are easily woven through the knitting.

This versatile three-color fair isle pattern would look great in a third-grader’s favorite team colors – or favorite Hogwarts house colors.

Things are starting to get serious so be sure to wear this THINKING CAP, which features a rolled brim, stripes and triple pom-poms.

This eye-catching hat, featuring a bright brim and an easy fleck pattern, is sure to go to the head of the class.

Kindergarten is all about the ABC’s and 123’s. Duplicate stitch is a fun, surprisingly easy technique used to embellish this fun hat.

No homework yet! Just bobbles and a cute i-cord topper on this toddler hat.

Classic, colorful and a wee bit preppy, these three-color fingerless mitts feature both horizontal and vertical stripes. The mitts are knit flat and then seamed after vertical ridges are slip-stitched with a crochet hook.

Accessorize with your favorite color combinations with these simple but elegant fingerless mitts. Simple purl ridges give these easy-to-knit mitts dimension and style.

The front of this hat – embellished with a back stitch and duplicate stitch – says it all! More details available on my blog. And don’t be afraid of duplicate-stitching! I created a brief video showing this simple technique -- you can view it here.

This preemie hat features escalating purl ridges and is topped with a three-bobble pyramid. It was a winner in the Knitmore Girls Podcast Head-to-Toe Preemie Hat Design Contest.

Reminiscent of summer but knit in a cozy winter wool, this bucket hat features a hemmed brim with a picot edge and a contrasting-color rickrack trim. The pattern begins with a provisional cast-on and is knit in the round in stockinette stitch. The 7-row garter-stitch rickrack trim is knit separately and sewn onto the hat.

This hat features feminine flowers and splashes of unexpected color.

This textured hat features 4-color stripes and a happy surprise on top!

This whimsical hat features colorful purl ridges and ear-flaps with duplicate-stitched hearts.

A three-bobble pyramid tops this striped hat featuring purl ridges & ruffled brim.

Little dudes will love shooting hoops wearing this ode-to-basketball hat. It features a large bobble on top and SWISH duplicate-stitched on the front. A great stash-buster, this hat delivers a big wow factor but is far less complicated than it looks! Consider making it in your favorite team colors.

This hat features simple, two-color ribbing and bobbles swirling around, which will charm both kids and grown-ups alike! For knitters, this pattern falls into the “easier than it looks” and “great use for scraps” categories!

Little boys will think this hat is the bomb. Easy to knit, it features a subtle, escalating rib pattern and a one-row contrasting brim.

What do you get when you knit a basic beanie and embellish with a duplicate-stitched heart and a contrasting pom pom and braid? Cuteness!

This beret-ish child hat is both contemporary and timeless. Bold stripes in three colors are offset by a feminine, shell-stitch crochet brim. (Only the most basic crochet stitches are used: making a chain, slip stitch, single crochet and double crochet.)

If you love the look of fair isle but are intimidated by alternating colors every few stitches, this project is for you! Using an easy-to-memorize slip-stitch pattern, you get the effect of stranded colorwork while working with just one color per round!

Love working with multiple colors but tired of stripes? Intimidated by fair isle and intarsia? Try this simple hat with a high-impact result!