April showers bring May flowers, or so they say. In the Pacific Northwest, sometimes April showers bring more showers. This cowl was custom-made to keep you cosy and protect you from any shower that deigns to come your way. There are two versions – a single loop that doubles as a snood or hood, and a double loop that can …
Textural Healing Shawl
In a knitting funk? Need some immediate gratification? This is a fun, fairly easy shawlette pattern with various textures just perfect to highlight a gorgeous semi-solid yarn. Its almost-half-circular construction sits just right around your neck; add the perfect shawl pin, and you are ready to rock and roll. MaterialsFinished Measurements: Small: 46” wide from tip to tip, 16″ deep …
Hazelwood Sweater
I live in a part of Portland that’s a bit more off the beaten path than I ever thought I’d live. It’s East of 82nd. But, I’ve grown to really love the little neighborhood we’re calling home these days. Three playgrounds within walking distance (a boon for my littles), a big yard, and a great Thai place pretty close by. …
Margaret Sullivan’s Shawl
One of the neighborhoods in Portland that I used to spend a lot of time in is Sullivan’s Gulch, named after the Sullivan family. Timothy was a world-class traveler until settling in Portland and building his homestead. He met his wife, Margaret, in Tasmania in 1841. This shawlette seems the kind of thing a globe-trotting, practical 1800s woman would throw …
Radiation
Waaay back when, before I was born, my folks had a hippie-dippie shop in the town I grew up in called Radiation. They sold bell-bottoms, waterbeds, and other counter-culture goods. The basement of the house I grew up in was the perfect suburban basement, with old couches, a TV, a pool table, and, taking up one whole wall, the wooden, …
Bridges Shawl
This shawl is a tribute to the bridges of Portland, of which there are oh, so many. Knit this shawl as you traverse the many bridges of my fair city. MaterialsFinished Measurements: 84″ long from tip to tip, 24″ deep at center. Measured after blocking.Yarn: approximately 630 yards sport-weight yarn. Needles: US6/4mm circular needle, 24” or longer, or size needed …