East Gable Shawl by Purl Bumps

East Gable

 Grab a skein of your favorite sock yarn and work Purl Bumps' top down, triangular shawl East Gable!

This feminine, pretty and fresh shawl is just like Anne and was inspired by the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  The pattern is easier than it looks, with almost all patterning done on right side rows, and its easily enlarged by adding repeats to the main lace pattern.

Follow the links after purchase to download this PDF & visit Purl Bumps to see all of Judy Marples' designs.

Ode to Spring VII: Transitional Knits

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. 

You know how it is with an April day 

When the sun is out and the wind is still, 

You're one month on in the middle of May. 

But if you so much as dare to speak, 

A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 

A wind comes off a frozen peak, 

And you're two months back in the middle of March. 

Robert Frost (1874-1963) 

from Two Tramps in Mud Time (1936) 

8 Beautiful, yet practical Transitional Knits

Lonicera by Through the Loops

Shawls to Knit Collection by Lily Go
eBook features 4 Shawl Designs

Jane Thornely's Two Shrugs Water Garden and Shoreline

Nelkin Designs' Cayden

Hanging Garden Stole by Sivia Harding

Free Summer Top Pattern by Berroco: Pulina

Pulina

Easy to knit and easy to wear, Berroco's Pulina is a garter stitch tank edged in simple ribbing which will transition you smoothly from Spring into Summer.  Knit in Berroco's new 100% cotton tape yarn Karma.  Karma's intriguing mesh construction, airy quality and machine wash-ability make it the perfect yarn for Summer.

Karma

The Pulina pattern is a FREE, simply print the page.  You can also purchase the Pulina Kit, which includes 10 dyeloted skeins of Karma, and you'll save 10% on this yarn.

What (Else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?

What (Else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?

She’s back. Madame Thérèse Defarge, from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, worked the names of the condemned into her knitting as she sat near the ever-active revolutionary guillotines. But Dickens never described what she knit.

As in the beloved first volume (What Would Madame Defarge Knit?), these 28 patterns bring together a host of knitting talent to imagine what their beloved fictional characters would knit and wear. From Tristan and Iseult to Jane Bennet to Miss Marple, characters from many of your favorite books finally get the knitwear they deserve.

Golden Gate Shawl

Fosco's Pret-pret-pretties

Laura Louise Layette

 Follow the links after purchase to download W(E)WMDK?  And visit Cooperative Press to see all eBooks.
 

Ode to Spring VI: A Spring Wedding

Visit our nation's capitol to see the Cherry Blossoms, dance at your sister's Spring wedding or gift her and her bridegroom a hand knit afghan for their new home, celebrate!
 
"I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. 
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, 
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes."

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Sivia Harding Cherry Blossom Socks

Jane Thornley Golden Blossoms

Sivia Harding Blossom Dearies

Fiber Dreams Dancing Shoes

Schaefer White Water Afghan

Dawn Brocco
Winter Harbor Collection
Country Nights Afghan

With Love for the Family: 4 New Laura Aylor Designs

Think Spring 

with one of these 

New Laura Aylor designs. 

Babycakes

 Knit top down and seamless Babycakes includes 4 sizes.

Burn

Shalimar

Woodsmoke

Follow the links after purchase 

to download  

all of Aylor's patterns.

Ode to Spring V: Take Wing

The Robin is the One 

That interrupt the Morn 

With hurried — few — express Reports 

When March is scarcely on – 

The Robin is the One 

That overflow the Noon 

With her cherubic quantity – 

An April but begun – 

The Robin is the One 

That speechless from her Nest 

Submit that Home — and Certainty A

nd Sanctity, are best 

Emily Dickinson

Tiny Owl Knits Sweet Robin Wrist-ees

Susan Lawrence Feather Duster

JOJI Dragonflies Jumper

HeartStrings Dragonfly Dreams Lace Scarf

Tiny Owl Knits The Beekeeper's Quilt