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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.

Knitting

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.

Gardening

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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Gardening

A cluster of pale peach roses with many petals blooms in the center of the photo surrounded by lots of bright greenery.

Gardening | Roses

Two Tips for Rose Care in Cooler Months

Rose care strategies need to change as the weather cools down, even if you’re not ready for your big winter prune yet.

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.

All the Roses in my Garden: A Review

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

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A top-down photo of three pairs of handknit socks in shades of pink, white, and brown. Interspersed among the socks are a pumice stone, a bottle of glycolic acid toner, a glass of ice water, and a tube of moisturizing foot cream.

Caring for Knitwear

The Unexpected Way to Make Knit Socks Last Longer

Four gray mitered squares sit on top of a lace doily next to a yellow rose, a teacup full of milky tea, some antique books, and two neutral-colored balls of yarn.

Knitting Tips and Tricks

4 Ways to Knit a Mitered Square (and When to Use Each One)

A top-down photo showing two swatches, one with the floats cut and one with the floats intact (the white swatch on the bottom). They're surrounded by more yarn, some metal knitting needles, a silver trinket box, a pink rose, and a seed stitch swatch knit flat.

Gauge · Knitting Tips and Tricks

Speed Swatching for Knitters: Accurate Gauge in Less Time

Gardening · Roses

Two Tips for Rose Care in Cooler Months

Knitting Tips & Tricks

4 Ways to Knit a Mitered Square (and When to Use Each One)

Speed Swatching for Knitters: Accurate Gauge in Less Time

A half-finished knit scarf with tan and white stripes sits on a driftwood log at the beach. Blurred in the background is lots of sand and some soft blue waves.

Knitting with Alpaca Yarn: What to Know Before You Cast On

A top-down photo of a pile of pink and cream knit accessories with a gray swatch in the middle. All of the knit items have bobbles on them, including the swatch.

Three Different Ways to Knit Bobbles

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Life of a Knitter

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.

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.

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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