Quick handmade Christmas Gifts: part II – ornaments & decorations

Hi folks! Today we will be talking ornaments and decorations. Ornaments are so quick to knit and a lot of them are pretty simple. For all of these projects I use Chiagoo, (long enough for magic loop for the gnomes). The first thing we are going to discuss are these Mini Elf Hat and Beards…

Quick hand made Christmas gift: part I – mice

Hi there, three years later! I am so very terrible at keeping up with this blog thing. Anyways, moving on. I am popping in to start a small series of posts - quick and easy handmade gifts for the people in your life. (By easy I mean with a small amount of knitting knowledge -…

P13 Mitts

Free knitting pattern for some basic fingerless mitts.

Sprinkles & Stripes – a stash busting beanie

You guys. YOU GUYS. I have come up with the most perfect stash busting project. Ever. If you have bits of fingering weight yarn and you're not sure what to do with them - look no further! This beanie is really quite simple, only a step up from my Very Basic Beanie. To get the effect,…

Double Brim Double Stripes

Buy the pattern - Double Brim Double Stripe Beanie When I was a teen, I had this beanie. It was double brimmed, had stripes, and was so squishy soft and warm. This poor hat went through so many things, and ended its life in a very unfortunate way - food poisoning was involved. Enough said.…

Magdalena’s Heart

Buy the pattern on Ravelry! What a labor of love this little pattern has been! Well, for the most part it kind of just came together. I was knitting a stocking for several someone specials and wanted them all to be different, so started designing charts for the third one. My daughter loved the hearts…

Flower Headband

Some light, airy knitting for those hot summer days! What better to make for summer then a sweet flower headband or hairclip? I like to use cotton or acrylic so they can be thrown into the wash, but feel free to use whatever worsted weight you like. My daughter's headband is knit in Dishie by…

Simple Flip Top Mitts

Get knitting! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/simple-flip-top-mitts Finally, after longer than I would care to remember, I have a new pattern published! Introducing, Simple Flip Top Mitts, a take off of my original Simple Mitts. I couldn't find a pattern for flip top mitts I liked, so I decided to design my own. This pattern will use a little…