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Two stockinette knit hats are laid flat on the top of a white dresser with lots of antique books in the background. The bottom hat is pink with blue and white stripes. The top hat is white with three blue stripes and a blue ribbed brim. Both hats are knit in simple stockinette stitch.

Free Knitting Pattern: Simple Stockinette Cap

This free hat knitting pattern is designed to help you use up leftovers from sock knitting projects. It’s graded to five sizes.

The Deimatic Socks, a pair of light blue, cabled socks are laid flat on a white marble countertop. Surrounding them are white roses, antique paper ephemera, old books, and a blue and white coffee cup.

Free Sock Knitting Pattern: Deimatic Socks

A pink cowl with columns of eyelets and bobbles is laid flat on a white marble countertop and surrounded by white roses, a teacup full of milky tea, and antique doilies.

Free Cowl Knitting Pattern: The Rhubarb Crumble Cowl

A close-up photo showing a pale pink mini scarf with pointed ends tied around the neck of a white dressmaker's form. A vintage landscape print in a wooden frame fills the background.

Free Scarflet Knitting Pattern: The Radling Scarflet

A flatlay photograph of the Pebbles by the Sea Hat. The hat, a chunky-weight handknit hat in a clay-colored yarn, is laid out on a white marble countertop and surrounded by antique bric a brac, white flowers, and a white teacup full of tea.

Free Hat Knitting Pattern: Pebbles by the Sea Hat

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A close-up on the brim of the Pebbles by the Sea Hat. It shows the 1x1 twisted ribbing on the brim. The hat is knit in a clay-colored yarn and surrounded by white flowers on a white marble countertop.

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A side view of a white shawl with tan and gray variegations draped around a dressmaker's form. From this angle, you can more clearly see the tiny little bobbles and stripes of lace that make up the textured portion of the shawl.

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A peach cafe au lait dahlia fills the entire photo with a little greenery visible at the edges.

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A vintage teacup with purple violets painted on it sits on a matching saucer. A tarnished silver spoon rests on the saucer, and the cup is filled with chamomile tea. In the background are some white roses and a silver sugar bowl.

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A pastel plate with five round crackers. Each cracker has some soft cheese and fruit spread on it. The plate is surrounded by white knitting and pastel skeins of yarn.

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A white woman's left arm reaches out in front of a gray stucco wall. Her hand is full of roses in varying shades of pink, coral, and yellow.

Gardening | Roses

All the Roses in my Garden: A Review

I’ve been growing some of these rose plants for seven years now, so here’s a review of each of them. I hope it’s helpful!

How to Care for Your Dahlia Bulbs During Winter

A light green vase full of pink, apricot, and yellow roses sits on a dark table flanked by two large candles.

June 2023 Rose Garden Update

A bouquet of peach, yellow, and cream roses held against a white wall.

The Gift of the Fall Flush

An overgrown climbing rose bush in front of a house with brick siding, a brick chimney, and white trim along the eaves. The rose bush has several clusters of pale peach roses.

Rose Gardening: My Break from Knitting

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A top-down photo showing a white woman's hands knitting a partially finished sock in cream yarn. Spread on the table in the background are the many pages of a relatively simple knitting pattern.

Life of a Knitter

Why Knitting Patterns Cost So Much

Three white shelves full of books, some vintage and antique, some new. There's also a blue and white Wedgewood Jasperware vase, a hunk of coral, and a blue onion-printed cookie jar.

Life of a Knitter

Book Collecting for Regular People

A top-down photo where a white stoneware pitcher full of metal and wooden knitting needles sits on a desk surrounded by pastel mini skeins of yarn and a couple knitting projects in progress on metal and plastic needles.

Knitting Tips and Tricks

How to Pick the Right Knitting Needle Material for Your Project

Gardening · Roses

All the Roses in my Garden: A Review

Knitting Tips & Tricks

How to Pick the Right Knitting Needle Material for Your Project

Three pairs of handknit socks--one pink with a round toe, one white with a wedge toe, and one gray with a star toe--are laid out on a white dresser top with some antique books in the background.

4 Reasons I Recommend Round Toes for Newer Sock Knitters

A white woman's hands hold a handknit sock in progress on a pair of long circular needles. The sock is being knit using the magic loop method with a skein of handdyed yarn that has lavender and yellow speckles.

Defeating My Nemesis: Magic Loop

A blue ball of silk yarn is stacked on top of a tan ball of linen yarn and photographed from the front, surrounded by lots of antique dishes on the shelf of an old oak china hutch.

Can You Use Summer Yarns in Patterns Designed for Wool?

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Life of a Knitter

Why Knitting Patterns Cost So Much

Book Collecting for Regular People

A brown, lacy, handknit sweater in progress rests on a pink wingback chair with a vintage quilt draped over the back of it.

Yes, This Is Your Grandma’s Knitting

Two pink socks with blue cuffs, heels, and toes are laid out on a white marble countertop. The right sock is still on the needles and needs a finished toe. There is a gold and white cup full of tea and a vintage doily next to the socks.

On Making by Hand in a Digital World

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