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  • A side-angle photo showing a string of pennant bunting in shades of pink, blue, yellow, and green across the front doors of a vintage oak china hutch.

    Free Tutorial: Festive Knit Triangle Bunting

    A pair of plain white handknit socks on metal sock blockers rest on a floral rug. The socks are slightly staggered vertically with the toes pointing in opposite directions.

    Free Basic Worsted Sock Knitting Pattern

    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

    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

    A woman's hands are splayed out on a countertop wearing pale pink fingerless mitts with cream contrasting trim. There are roses, dahlias, and a teacup full of tea, too.

    Knitting Fingerless Mitts with a Thumb Gusset – Free Pattern

    A flatlay photograph showing two handknit potholders in teal and seafoam green. They're surrounded by pink and yellow roses, a vintage teacup full of tea, and vintage books.

    How to Choose the Best Kind of Yarn for Your Knit Potholders

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    Knitting patterns, tea, roses, life at home
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    A quick introduction for all the new friends who’v A quick introduction for all the new friends who’ve made their way here over the last few months! Welcome, and I’m so glad you’re here. I’m Lauren. I design knitting patterns with a focus on accessories. Socks are my special love.

I live in a funny little beach city in Southern California with my husband and our elementary schooler. You won’t see their faces around here, but just know that they are always nearby and I would not be the creator I am without them.

I took up knitting in my first semester of law school to cope with stress. That was back in the fall of 2007. After three years of law school and almost eight years of practice, I hung up my suits and stepped into the classroom. I spent seven wonderful years teaching law to highschoolers at the same high school where I was once a student.

But our school district is shrinking and last year, it became pretty clear that it could no longer sustain my program. I decided to pivot again and take my knitting pattern business full-time. In the six months since, I’ve had a lot of fun experimenting with different forms of content, connecting with new people, and leaning into my creativity.

When I’m not designing or creating knitting content, I love puttering about in my rose garden, hunting for sea glass at the beach with my kid, wandering through museums and libraries, taking pictures of cute old houses, devouring romance novels, and looking for spots of beauty and joy everywhere I possibly can.
    This is something that genuinely just occurred to This is something that genuinely just occurred to me this morning, and now I’m really wondering! How do interactions between knitters and knitting pattern designers differ from interactions between two knitters who aren’t designers? Is there a meaningful difference? And if so, how does that affect the way we engage with each other on social platforms?
    If you’ve been waiting patiently for some of my pa If you’ve been waiting patiently for some of my patterns to go on sale, now is your chance! My annual birthday sale is live now. Newsletter subscribers have a code in their inbox that will give you 41% off all of my self published, individually sold patterns. There’s also an automatic sale happening that will take 20% off of those same patterns.

The sale ends on Friday, so if there’s something you wanna grab, don’t snooze!
    Last year I made a bunch of knitting resolutions f Last year I made a bunch of knitting resolutions for myself. This year, I didn’t make any. How about you? Are you in a growth phase or a rest phase this year?
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