Patterns & Inspiration

This adorable book by Makiko Arai has 30 needle felted animals to make. Each design includes step by step instructions with detailed photos. Learn ...

Use this worksheet to figure out how much yardage you need to make a sweater in your size. You can use this worksheet for most any pattern. This is...

This poncho couldn’t be simpler. It’s a rectangle that you seam together to create a neck opening. Knit in a cotton blend yarn, it drapes beautiful...

This striking cowl is a quick knit and a great introduction to doing color work using slipped stitches. Because the design is created using slipped...

The inspiration for these fingerless gloves was twofold. First, the beautiful Eureka Worsted yarn from Sincere Sheep. It’s a lovely yarn and is...

Sunni designed this shawl as an introduction to shawl knitting, including elements like a garter tab cast on, center spine increases, a few differe...

If you enjoy knitting new techniques with color, you'll love this book. Woolly Wormhead is one of the most innovative designers in our knitting com...

Knit beautiful hats inspired by the US National Parks. This gorgeous book includes 63 easy-to-follow patterns.

Easy Crochet for Beginners: Learn to crochet with 35 simple projects by Nicki Trench

The inspiration for this hat was a classic ski hat with a folded ribbed brim and a pom pom. To make it special, I wanted it to have some textural i...

Handspun is so beautiful but is sometimes challenging to work with.  Sunni wanted to design something that would show off the handspun but still be...

Crescent shaped shawls are fun to wear. I wanted to design a two-color shawl using an offset crescent that plays with texture. Slipped stitch patte...

Let’s Make Dumplings! includes dumpling lore; a master folding guide that familiarizes readers with popular styles, like the pleated crescent of...

Playful and instructive, this hybrid cookbook/graphic novel introduces the history of ramen and provides more than 40 recipes for everything you ne...

I wanted to design a simple and elegant cowl that you might wear while on a walk at the beach. Our local Samoa Dunes came to mind. This pattern...

This shawl experiments with doing color work using two completely different yarns. The hand dyed, silk blend fingering weight yarn adds a nice drap...

I’ve always loved seed stitch. I wanted a hat that had all over seed stitch but with a little something extra, hence the button tab. The button tab...

This shawl has quite a story behind it. The designer's husband was bitten by a great white shark in October of 2013. He survived and is fully recov...

Sometimes a chunky lace hat is the perfect thing. This lace pattern works especially well with the chunky weight yarn and makes for a quick knit. W...

Now in paperback, this beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout encourages us to break fre...

If you are busy and are looking for delicious, easy and quick meals to make, Melissa Clark's Dinner in One is perfect for you. Melissa Clark brings...

A sweet hat that works for adults or children. The slipped stitch pattern creates what look like little bows on the hat. This pattern works equally...

Issue 25 of the Noro Magazine includes 30 different patterns for sweaters, vests, cowls, hats, blankets and wraps. As always there are knit and cro...