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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 Patterns · Knitting Design

    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.

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  • 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.

Patterns

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.

Living

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.

Entertaining

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.

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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.

    All the Roses in my Garden: A Review

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

    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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  • Two blue knit swatches with ribbing at the top sit on a crumpled white cloth surrounded by a pair of pink socks, a pair of white socks, and a few clumps of baby's breath flowers. The left blue swatch is bound off using the standard bind-off, while the other is bound off in pattern.
    Knitting Tips and Tricks

    How to Bind Off in Pattern for Beginner Knitters

  • A flatlay photo of two skeins of yarn (one pink one cream with pastel speckles), a ball of blue yarn, and a pink knit hat sitting on a vintage embroidered table runner.
    Knitting Tips and Tricks · Yarn Substitution

    6 Tips for Knitting with Bulky Yarn

  • 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)

Knitting Tips & Tricks

  • Two blue knit swatches with ribbing at the top sit on a crumpled white cloth surrounded by a pair of pink socks, a pair of white socks, and a few clumps of baby's breath flowers. The left blue swatch is bound off using the standard bind-off, while the other is bound off in pattern.

    How to Bind Off in Pattern for Beginner Knitters

  • A flatlay photo of two skeins of yarn (one pink one cream with pastel speckles), a ball of blue yarn, and a pink knit hat sitting on a vintage embroidered table runner.

    6 Tips for Knitting with Bulky Yarn

  • 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.

    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.

    Speed Swatching for Knitters: Accurate Gauge in Less Time

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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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Knitting patterns, tea, roses, life at home
Ventura, California
lauren@abeeinthebonnet.com

When the weather outside gets gloomy, a vase full When the weather outside gets gloomy, a vase full of grocery store flowers can really cheer things up. I grabbed a couple bunches at Trader Joe’s, and it gave me a week of happiness. Not too shabby.
Don’t worry if you missed the release weekend di Don’t worry if you missed the release weekend discount for the Santa Rosa Socks. You can still get a discount on the pattern as part of The Half-Light Collection, which includes four patterns designed for sport-weight yarn using Camellia Fiber Company’s CFC Merino Sport base. 

The bundle is $20, which is a savings of $10 or 33% when compared to buying each pattern individually. That’s the kind of discount you rarely see from me!
Posting these WIPs here to hold myself accountable Posting these WIPs here to hold myself accountable! I will have at least two FOs for you by Friday. I promise.

Even if one of those finished objects is a pair of tiny baby socks that takes very little time to complete. It still counts! It still counts!
When in doubt, add chocolate.* *YMMV When in doubt, add chocolate.*

*YMMV
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