Board Game Knits is a collection of 9 new knitting patterns inspired by tradtional board games designed by Lola Johnson and Helena Timms. The designs encompass neckwear, hats and gloves, taking inspiration from historical board games through to tactile board games. Release date: September 2018

An Ode to the brightness of moon in the night sky in its many phases, and the energy it exerts over the earth and tide. Cycles of life and learning.

Parallelo is a parallelogram styled shawl that builds on and combines colourwork techniques as you knit along. The primary colourwork techniques in this shawl include Mosaic and slip stitches, it also incorporates short rows in 2 sections as well as cables in the last two sections.

Ripples on the Clyde is designed for Glasgow 2024 Worldcon and is inspired by the Armadillo convention centre and the River Clyde running past it and through Glasgow.

Shooting stars and meteor trails, blazing past the earth. This shawl is inspired by hurtling towards change and uses a collaborative collection of colourways from Third Vault Yarns and GamerCrafting based on post apocalyptic fiction, with hopeful endings for possible futures.

Balance as a shawlette draws on the idea of duality and perceived imbalance, whilst showing that all our varied differences make completeness and balance. With it we’re celebrating and fighting for queer joy. Using sets of eyelets to symbolise difference, and copying them on each side as if in a flip of a coin, or a look in the mirror, these di...

Unravel & Entwine is inspired by the interwoven nature of craft and industry in Farnham dating back to the town’s foundation. It features stranded intarsia to give you a beautiful slip stitch cable over garter. With lots of knitting options and the possibility of knitting it in DK also.

Orbital is inspired by the path that planets take around the Sun, the trajectory of the moon around the Earth and the satellites that travel around us. A curving journey around the head, travelling upward to a future beyond the stars.

Planar shift is a large crescent shaped shawl with wings. It is separated into several sections to symbolise different planes, with the trailing columns of slip stitches changing directions at each shift in colour. It is designed for use with 4 different colour 50g skeins. The sample uses the Plane shift set collaboration between Chromatic yarn...

Dice rolls and co-operative strategy in a post-zombie apocalyptic world. You play as survivors, working to escape to a safer place, collect food, find other survivors and more. ApoCowlypse was designed for a post-apocalyptic aesthetic, something quick and light weight that can be worn in a number of ways to keep you warm. Using twisted knitting...

Claiming Tokyo or New York is the aim of the game this King of all Hats is inspired by, and of course being the last monster standing. Some simple slip stitch colourwork creates the energy cube lookalike structure and then some stranded colourwork to show off the faces of the special die in the game. Whilst this hat won’t make you a monarch it’...

The game that put Euro games on the map for the rest of the world, where players attempt to settle the Island of Catan. An Island built of land type hexes, which are placed in a random configuration every game. These mitts echo the changing nature of the island, with the hexes you can move about and choose your own configuration, along with the...

Like dreams and hope this has evolved and taken on a new form, starting the same as Electric Skylines * Inspired by cities and the hope for a new earth as part of the Do You Dream of Terra Two

This pattern is available for purchase both on Etsy and Payhip

This game of chance and luck is a funny thing, it relies a lot less on skill, but is heavy on strategy and leveraging where your luck happens to fall. Inspired by those sometimes pleasant and sometimes mercenary games of Monopoly with the family, this semi circular shawl uses different skeins in each section to represent different colour groups...

Aggravation, along with many others, is a variation on the game pachisi that dates back to medieval India. Whilst there are a few differences from the original game, Aggravation follows the same principal: each player travels around the board to reach home. Unlike pachisi, it allows for the introduction of extra players, giving you more options...

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The Oakensheild Gauntlets were designed for the first YarniTea club of 2017. Drawing inspiration from Thorin Oakensheild’s character in The Hobbit movie trilogy, with patterning of his armour and the gauntlets he wears.

Blown Glass is the third pattern in the Glass Collection of short row-centric patterns, it utilises the same techniques as found in the Stained Glass Shawlette to new effect. Blown Glass includes the addition of a border, where you pick up and work back and forth with short rows to create the waves, meaning that you’ll never be working on a sec...

I was challenged to come up with a simple pattern, something not quite my usual fare. So I wanted to do something that used basic techniques to great effect and so with the help of members of The Vault (The Third Vault Yarns Facebook group) Knits and Purls was born!

Burn the Capitol gloves are designed in tribute to The Hunger Games, symbolising the Mockingjay as the catalyst setting fire to the regime of President Snow and the Capitol. This glove pattern was designed for the Third Vault Yarns Hunger Games Yarn Club, the colours shown in the sample and named below each have their own symbolism.

Second in the Glass Collection of short row centric patterns, Frosted Glass fingerless gloves are designed to use colour to play off the shaping that short rows can provide as a design feature, whilst also utilising short rows as a non-standard construction technique to great effect. Paired with the Stained glass shawlette, you can use 2 x 50g ...

The Noughts and Crosses cowl plays with the juxtaposition of cables and lace, creating a harmonious balance between the two that makes it the perfect spring cowl, or the ideal cover up for summer evenings. With a couple more repeats and the addition of another nought and cross to your repeats it could be converted to be knit in fingering weight...

This crazy jumper can be worn either side as front, it’s relaxed and elegant all the time and can be used to dress up some jeans or worn over a dress or skirt. However you’d like to style it, this classic but funky piece is ideal for showcasing a hand-dyed yarn.