Knitty

The ultimate basic pattern that's 100% *not* basic! Good Bones by is a beautifully tailored customizable pullover! The Good Bones are the base structure: it has seams, which helps it keep its shape! And it's a great starting point for customizing to your own body and taste with sleeve length, bust dart options. See it in a variety of sizes and yarn blends, and watch as it helps you make magic with two strands of fingering-weight yarn. This is one to knit again and again.

Find the FREE pattern here:
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/PATTgoodBones/PATTgoodBones.php

We'd love it if you'd share this free pattern (all patterns in Knitty are free!) with your knitting, spinning, and crochet friends. Word of mouth is how Knitty reaches new knitters and crocheters worldwide!

In case you haven’t seen this yet…I bet it applies to crocheters too!

Your grandmother’s favorite hobby might be one of the most powerful brain protection tools ever studied.Researchers tracking adults over 60 found that people who regularly knitted, crocheted, or did similar handcraft activities had significantly lower rates of cognitive decline. In some cohorts, dementia risk dropped by nearly half compared to non-crafters.Here is why it works. Knitting activates multiple brain regions simultaneously: motor coordination, pattern recognition, working memory, counting, and creative problem solving. All at once. It is essentially a full brain workout disguised as something calming.The benefits compound over time. The longer you do it, the more cognitive reserve you build, which acts as a neurological buffer against the changes that lead to dementia.If you are a caregiver, this matters for your brain too. Chronic stress accelerates cognitive aging, and active hobbies are one of the best studied ways to fight back.Save this video. Share it with someone who needs a real reason to pick up a hobby again.

Leave it to clever to not only give us long- and short-sleeved variations on a sweet, puffed-sleeve pullover, but to give the long sleeves just a little extra detail. We do love our Kate.

Carousel is shown in both a Blueface Leicester DK yarn from West Yorkshire Spinners (the pink version) and a cotton/viscose/linen blend from King Cole (the green version). Carousel is shown in both a Blueface Leicester DK yarn from West Yorkshire Spinners (the pink version) and a cotton/viscose/linen blend from King Cole (the green version). What will you knit yours in?

Find the FREE pattern here:
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/PATTcarousel/PATTcarousel.php

We'd love it if you'd share this free pattern (all patterns in Knitty are free!) with your knitting, spinning, and crochet friends. Word of mouth is how Knitty grows!

Speaking to people who do this *professionally only*, please.

If a designer provided rough notes and a sample with your specified measurements, what would you charge to write and grade a pattern to sizes XS-5X? Would you rather walk the designer through, teaching them how to do it themselves, or would you just take the info and go?

I'm curious about what this might cost. Do you charge a flat rate or hourly? Perhaps a rough price range?

Let me know who you are and the info you want shared publicly. I'll likely add this to our Submission Guidelines as a resource for very new designers who need more than a little handholding through the pattern writing process.

This beautiful concoction is High Marsh Road by . Of course it's knit in 's Fuzz, a beautifully hand-dyed blend of mohair and silk. Sez Elizabeth, "The mohair diffuses the light and the silk glows, creating the same soft ethereal effect as the marsh light. The placement of the increases and decreases creates a gently undulating edge that mimics the contours of the marsh landscape, while the garter columns set up a pleasing rhythm (and a brief rest for your knitterly brain). The resulting scarf is elaborate, even elegant – and also a delightfully wearable lightweight fabric that is pleasingly warm for transitional seasons."

Find the FREE pattern here:
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/PATThighMarsh/PATThighMarsh.php

We'd love it if you'd share this free pattern (all patterns in Knitty are free!) with your knitting, spinning, and crochet friends. Word of mouth is how Knitty grows!

Is it weird to put your own pattern on the cover? Well, I'm weird, so there you go.

I designed this more than a decade ago and then my brain stopped working properly. Thanks to two great tech editors, it's now ready for others to knit without going weird themselves. Also, I really liked these photos and if you know anything about me, you know I always pick a picture I hope will grab you for the Knitty cover. Are you grabbed?

Find the FREE pattern here:
https://knitty.com/ISSUEff26/PATTbirdhouse/PATTbirdhouse.php

We'd love it if you'd share this free pattern (all patterns in Knitty are free!) with your knitting, spinning, and crochet friends. Word of mouth is how Knitty grows!

Brand new First Fall 2026 Knitty is live for the whole world!⁠
Full of tech-edited FREE PATTERNS for you to enjoy!

Go to knitty.com, and find your next knit!

These photos are from May 2013, when I got to visit Portland, and hang with Tina Newton, the legendary goddess behind Blue Moon Fiber Arts. Today I learned Tina has died and the knitting world, online and off, is so much the poorer for losing her.

Tina was smart and creative to a degree I don't know that many of her peers could match. And if you're knitting with hand dyed yarn in this century, you owe much to her and the path she laid for indie dyers worldwide. Take a moment and search Ravelry's yarn archives for her yarns. Her Socks that Rock accompanied and buoyed the sock revolution to unbelievable heights, and the lineups at Rhinebeck (where The Fold had a booth full of her gorgeousness) were out the door and down the hill. Everyone had to have some. Her colorways were beyond legendary. I even got to work with some, as she dyed Sock Candy for non-wool knitters like me, and it's *still* my favorite yarn.

On this trip, which was the last time I got to see Tina, I stayed at her home for a few days and we just hung out. We talked about everything, finding special common ground (unfortunately for us) in partnerships falling apart and how to survive when marriages go in the toilet.

She took me into her sacred space, her dye studio, and I came up with a clumsy colorway she named ESS – a beautiful yellowy green with all sorts of dark speckles. ("ESS" stands for *effervescent s**t stain*, and that in itself tells you all you need to know about the glory that was Tina.) She sent me on my way with a big bag of returned skeins of Sock Candy that had knots in them (who cares?) or were just last-ofs a specific colorway. I'm still working through those treasures, and I always think of Tina every time I pick up the bag or wear the sweater I made with them.

I left Tina the following weekend, hoping I'd get to see her again soon. But back home, the toilet won and I spent the next few years working through a divorce, my uterus calling it quits, 3 surgeries in one year, and finding my undiagnosed AuDHD taking over my life and making functioning like a normal person difficult.

I reached out to Tina a few months ago over text, mea-culpa-ing over my radio silence since we last messaged, and telling her I missed her and was here if she wanted to connect. Today I learned that she had died.

If you never knew her but you use hand-dyed yarn, Tina has likely touched someone who made that yarn who did. If you were knitting or crocheting when she was actively making beautiful things every day, you know how special she was.

I have already missed her for a long time, but I treasure the time I got to spend with her. I hope she knew how much she was loved...by so many.