Skeinanigans

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Pullover
Petit Planetary is the children’s version of your favorite
Knitting: Pullover
A delightful confection of a sweater, Gateau begins with a simple yoke and transitions into colorful stripes in the body, begging you to knit just one more row. This lightweight sweater is the perfect garment for spring and fall and a great project to use those beautiful scraps and hand-dyed mini skeins.
Knitting: Cardigan
Make room in your closet for your new favorite sweater! Countdown Cardi is an open-front cardigan designed to showcase a magical, mirrored color fade radiating from the center of the body. Countdown Cardi is designed to use a countdown (or Advent) set of 21 colors or more, in combination with a truly unique construction method to produce a stun...
Knitting: Pullover, Cardigan
Sliding Scale Pricing: Deception & Persuasion is my first pattern that offers both a pullover and a cardigan pattern in one. However, I understand that not all people intend to knit both or can afford to pay the cost for both patterns. For this reason, I am offering a sliding scale so you can choose the price that you believe is appropriat...
Knitting: Pullover
Planetary Pullover is the celestial, science-y sweater you’ve been waiting for. You’ll be the center of your very own sweater-sized solar system as eight (or nine!) planetary orbits encircle you, with an optional stranded colorwork asteroid belt — eat your heart out, Copernicus! Complete with embroidered planets along each elliptical path, this...
Knitting: Pullover
Miss Ziggy pairs a classic drop-shoulder silhouette with bold, colorblocked stripes for a top-down pullover that is totally out of this world! Gather all of your favorite single skeins of fingering weight (and your trusty pocket scale) and create a gorgeous sweater that is totally one of a kind. Ellie chose to use the Nimbus base from Oink Pigm...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Pride is affirmation. Pride is dignity. Pride is equality. Pride is visibility. Pride is protest. Pride is progress. Pride is community. Pride is family. Pride is love. Pride is more than the month of June. Pride is always.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us.”
Knitting: Pullover
Queen Bean is the monarch of your closet, that perfect-fitting sweater that you reach for every time. Hold together fingering weight + mohair for a warm lightweight layer, or create a cozier pullover with a single strand of sport or DK weight. Queen Bean has a unique top-down construction that starts off with engaging short rows. Then you’ll br...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
When you just can’t resist the temptation of a trend, Slub & Fuzz is your textural treat for the New Year! Using a combination of slubby merino fingering and alpaca silk laceweight yarns, this simple hat pattern is the perfect cozy knit you need after the holiday season. Substitute DK weight or your preferred blend of fingering and lace wei...
Knitting: Throw
Fly True is the little sibling of Northeasterly, featuring a prominent herringbone design, perfect for your mini skeins and scraps you’ve been hanging onto forever. This pattern will show off your tiny delights to their utmost potential, and it is simple yet engaging enough to keep your interest. Join As You Go construction and weaving in ends ...
Knitting: Baby Blanket
Safe Space is a knitted quilt using hexagons in fingering weight yarn to create a blanket that reminds you that the best feeling is being yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Enjoy knitting your mini skeins, scraps, and colorful little bits of yarn in this blanket, in either half- or full-hexagons! Instructions are included for join-as-...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Knitting: Cardigan
With the fun of a shawl and the wearability of a garment, meet ThunderCardi! This cropped wrap cardigan is designed to envelop you in the comfort of your favorite colors, textures, and yarns to weather the storm. This unique sweater is knit side-to-side with completely seamless construction, making it the perfect canvas for color play! Knit usi...
Knitting: Tee
Inspired by Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Baudelaire is the crop that is going to add some drama to your fall wardrobe. Featuring innovative raglan shaping, options for full bust adjustment and sleeve circumference modifications, an inclusive size range and a delightful Peter Pan collar, making it as exciting to knit as it is...
Knitting: Cardigan
Inspired by Canon Hand Dyes and the new Downton Abbey film, Upstairs is a sweet cardigan dressed up with textured stripes for those precious mini skein sets that you can’t resist. Featuring top-down, seamless construction and i-cord button bands knit along with the body of the sweater, this is the perfect project for intermediate knitters who l...
Knitting: Pullover
Inspired by Canon Hand Dyes and the new Downton Abbey film, Downstairs is a workhorse raglan dressed up with textured stripes for those precious mini skein sets that you can’t resist. Top-down construction makes this an ideal sweater for a confident beginner, and the body goes by like a breeze when you have so much to look forward to! And with ...
Knitting: Sleeveless Top
This A-line tank features a knotted racerback style construction. It’s a super fun layering piece for beach trips and warm weather frolicking. Knit from the top-down, this garment is the perfect canvas for your favorite mini skeins, fade sets, or single skeins that need a special place of honor!
Knitting: Pullover
A delightful confection of a sweater, Gateau begins with a sprinkling of purl stitches in the yoke and ends with colorful stripes in the body, begging you to just knit one more row. Knit in Stress Knits Favorite base, this lightweight sweater is the perfect transition garment for spring and fall. Wear your precious mini skeins and little bits o...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks, Fingerless Gloves
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Knitting: Tee
Using your favorite fingering weight yarns, scraps, and mini skeins, deck out your favorite tiny person in a Magpie of their own! This sweet tee is perfect for summer layering, and its slightly cropped length makes it perfect for throwing on over skirts, dresses and shorts. With two color-blocking options and two sleeve length options there are...
Knitting: Tee
A breezy summer top for those golden skeins that are too perfect for socks, V-Neck Magpie puts a twist on the original Magpie Tendency to help build your crop top wardrobe. Knit on large needles, the finished fabric has beautiful drape, making it flattering on all body types. And all sizes in this inclusive range take two skeins or less of fing...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap, Throw
Opalite is a scrappy, modular pattern designed to show off your delightful little bits of yarn, whether those are mini skeins, scraps or delightful full skeins. Knit in equilateral triangles, each section is just small enough to be enjoyable, and just large enough to be satisfying.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
This pattern is available for FREE as the first pattern in the “Pay If You Can” series. Simply add the pattern to your cart and use the offer code “PAYIFYOUCANST.” However, if you would like to buy me a coffee please feel free to purchase the pattern for the listed price.
Knitting: Tee
For those golden, beautiful skeins that are too perfect for socks, too delicious to be mixed in with many other yarns, Magpie Tendency is a cropped layering piece meant to stretch those fingering weight skeins as far as they can go. Knit on large needles, the finished fabric has beautiful drape, making it flattering on all body types. Two color...
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
This pattern is available for FREE in the “Pay If You Can” series. Simply add the pattern to your cart and use the offer code “PAYIFYOUCANOO.” However, if you would like to buy me a coffee please feel free to purchase the pattern for the listed price.
Knitting: Stitch pattern
Completely customize Northeasterly and make it your own with this add-on pack! Throw in two-color brioche, seed stitch, lace, bobbles, and twisted rib for a textural treat, or to keep your interest. Or, use the modified cast-on and bind-off instructions to square your edges for a more traditionally shaped blanket! The possibilities are endless ...
Knitting: Throw
A new take on a sock yarn blanket with a fun, modern look and the ability to use as much (or as little) of your fingering and DK weight mini skeins and scraps! This modular design requires minimal finishing, which makes it the perfect project to pick up and put down as you like! You can also alter the pattern to be a wrap or a scarf, so you can...