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A Bee In The Bonnet

Author: Lauren Rad

I'm a former lawyer turned knitwear designer who designs soft, romantic patterns for knitters who want a brief escape from the everyday. When I'm not knitting, you can usually find me puttering about in my rose garden, hosting tea parties, or collecting sea glass at the beach.
A pile of pastel colored socks jumbled together. The image is zoomed in on a pale blue sock with a round toe, a pale pink sock with a star toe, and a pale green sock with a wedge toe.

A Field Guide to My Favorite Knit Sock Toes

A softly variegated pink sock in progress sits on a table in front of a window at the airport in Portland, Oregon. I knit these socks while waiting for my flight home from Rose City Yarn Crawl 2023.

Knitting in Public: 12 of The Wonderfully Odd Places I’ve Stitched

Two matching hats knit in fluffy tan yarn are laid flat on top of each other in a staggered fashion. They have seed stitch and columns of coin lace. They're surrounded by peach dahlias, white roses, two seashells, and spiky white coral.

A Free Hat Knitting Pattern: The Littoral Hat

A small Eastlake dresser with carved handles sits next to a dressmaker's form with a gray shawl draped on it. Hung on the wall behind them are a wooden clock and two framed paintings. On top of the dresser are antique books, a lamp made to look like an oil lantern, a basket of yarn, and a wooden head form with a knit hat on it.

My Top Tips for How to Store Wool Sweaters and Hand Knits

A pair of cream-colored fingerless mitts with cables up the backs are worn by two small, plump hands, surrounded by white roses, antique books, and a navy blue teacup full of coffee.

The Prograde Orbit Mitts: A New Fingerless Mitts Pattern

Mohair Yarn Substitute: Suri Alpaca to the Rescue

Mohair Yarn Substitute: Suri Alpaca to the Rescue

Yarn Substitution for the Knit Sweater: A Designer’s Perspective

Yarn Substitution for the Knit Sweater: A Designer’s Perspective

A partially-finished pair of variegated pink and white socks sit on top of a small stack of books. A teacup is slightly blurred in the background. Yarn substitution helped me learn how to use different yarn for socks, sweaters, hats, and more.

The Knitter’s Guide to Yarn Substitution

The Pandiculation Cowl, a DK-weight cowl with columns of tiny bobbles and eyelets, is laid flat on a white marble countertop surrounded by dusty miller, red and white cosmos, antique books, and a dark blue and white teacup.

Stretch Into a Cozy Fall Wardrobe with the Pandiculation Cowl

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As someone over on the clock app wisely pointed ou As someone over on the clock app wisely pointed out, I’ve already spent three years on this one. What’s a few more hours weaving in the ends? At this point, might as well.
Free for a very limited time: the Kelp Forest Cowl Free for a very limited time: the Kelp Forest Cowl! This is one of my very earliest designs, reimagined in gorgeous yarn from @seachangefibers and tech edited by @techeditor.bluecrabknits. This is for @themarlybird’s 24 Days of Quickies, so once today is over, this pattern goes back to being a paid pattern. Get it free while you can!
All five patterns in the 2025 Golden Honey Sock Cl All five patterns in the 2025 Golden Honey Sock Club are out now! There’s something for everybody here. Whether you are looking for a soothing knit, something with a lot of cables, a project that feels dainty and delicate, or something suited to a newer sock knitter, you’ll find a pattern in here that fits your needs. In order, the patterns are Clinch Cover, Great Big Ballgown, Illustrated Couple, Sentimental Memento, and Billowing Shirtsleeves. The first four are available individually, but the fifth is and always will be a sock club exclusive, and the club itself is a huge savings over buying all of the patterns separately.
How fitting that on this beautiful WIP Wednesday, How fitting that on this beautiful WIP Wednesday, I am starting the official march toward the end of the Mitered Square Blanket of Doom. It has been a long journey together, but it’s time to wind things down. Come along with me as I knit 21 square squares over the next 21 days, probably not in a perfectly consistent rhythm, but it’ll get done nonetheless.
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