This is a beaded collar accessory designed to be worn over a sweater or top to dress it up. I made this to support and participate in CKC's Collar-Along Make-Along activity -- a make-along held in 2025 that was created to call attention to the beauty…
This Christmas stocking is one of a pair of stockings that Betty Lindsay, my mother-in-law, had knitted for me and my sister-in-law when we joined the family. The pattern is the Victorian Stocking Pattern by Valerie Root, published in Better Homes…
I knitted this cabled pullover with worsted weight wool yarn. It was great to wear over a white button down shirt, and I wore it a lot. I do not currently recall the source of the pattern I used.
Materials: Shetland-style, American-made 100% wool yarn, fingering weight, brand currently unknown. The pink tweed may have been an early Rowan yarn. Silver Mercury dime buttons with shank, ¾”.
Story: In 1991, I knitted this vest for my boyfriend,…
My grandmother, Doris Scovill, gave me this hat in the late 1960s or early 1970s. At that time, she worked as a travel agent planning tours to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. On her own travels there, she collected textiles and other decorative…