Fetching Knits

9 May 2023

Kvetching with an old friend

Did you ever knit a pair of Fetching fingerless mitts? With 22,289 projects (and counting) on Ravelry, it’s quite possible that you – or someone you know – has made them.

Well, after 17 years, Brenda Dayne and Jeny Staiman decided it was time for an update. They cross-pollinated my pattern with Pam Grossman’s Knucks, and came up with Kvetching!

“Like Fetching, Kvetching features an elegant cabled cuff, a ribbed hand and a sweet cabled detail at the fingertips. Like Knucks, the mitts are worked from fingers to cuff, and feature a provisionally cast on thumb gusset.”

Check out the free pattern for their clever re-design here!

10 June 2022

Does the world need another fingerless mitt pattern? Maybe it does! It’s been sixteen years since my first fingerless mitt pattern, Fetching, was published in Knitty, and people are still making them (with over 21,000 projects currently posted on Ravelry). I designed these Terra Nova mitts for my dad at his request, to keep his hands warm when he’s out taking pictures. They’re named for the Terra Nova rural park near where I grew up and appear in Knitty First Fall 2022.

Click here for the free pattern.

17 September 202117 September 2021

Meet STRIBER

I designed this reversible double-knit scarf for Woolfolk Yarn‘s Pre-Fall 21 collection. It’s super-squishy and warm! I love the muted shades of the samples, but also think it would look really striking in black and white.

Click here to visit the pattern page.

10 February 2021

Ørnulf & Lena will keep your hands warm

Our smart and stylish friends Ørnulf and Lena live in Norway. The last time we saw them, they took us for an afternoon walk near their home in Bergen, up one mountain, across another, and down a third. It was so much fun. Afterwards, over dinner, they showed us their collection of beautiful hand-knitted mittens for wearing on hikes in the winter, and I’ve had an idea for stranded colourwork mittens in the back of my mind ever since.

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24 February 2020

Little Twig – a small project for luxury yarn

My sister brought me one skein of beautiful Italian cashmere from a trip a few years ago, and I put it away because I didn’t know what to do with it. Then last year I got a new winter coat that was almost the same colour as the yarn, and decided the time had come to make something.

I figured a lace cowl would work for the yardage, found a lovely Estonian Twig Lace (Hagakiri) pattern that worked in the round, did a bit of math, concentrated really hard for two-hour bursts, and now I have this lovely cowl. I didn’t come up with the lace pattern myself so I am offering the pattern for free.