Many of our courses feature projects to help you explore new techniques and skills. You can find all the patterns for these projects here, complete with details about the supplies and equipment needed to make each project.
It only takes a half hour and a bit of spare yarn to whip out these little jewelry trays. With just a triangle and a short series of rounds, you’ll have a sweet little household accessory for all your tiny trinkets.
This charming pouch, worked in two colours and three beginner-friendly crochet triangles, is the perfect little container for all your tiny accessories. Not to mention, it’s great for stash busting and gift giving.
Version 1.0 // © SweetGeorgia Yarns 2022 unapologetic colour + craft since 2005 | sweetgeorgiayarns.com
Texture and colour come together beautifully in this quick-to-crochet handbag. With a slip stitch join to bring a handful of bright triangles together, you’re promised a unique and fun project to make in a weekend.
A few triangles are all it takes to create a colourful, textural tote large enough to carry all your things. Choose your two favourite colours and let this fun pattern be your next weekend project.
Make the most of a compact 4-shaft loom with a narrower weaving width by weaving a double-width blanket! Use a wool and silk blend yarn to create a beautiful cloth with softness, sheen, and drape in a simple plain weave. Create your own colour combo for this blanket.
Make the most of a compact 4-shaft loom with a narrower weaving width by weaving a double-width blanket! Use a wool and silk blend yarn to create a beautiful cloth with softness, sheen, and drape in a simple plain weave. Create your own colour combo for this blanket.
For this project we’ll explore pick-up sticks and learn how to use warp and weft floats on their own and in combination. We’ll make five samples that would make lovely table squares. Then you can choose a structure you have woven and expand it into a table runner on a second wider warp.
Bright colours paired with a sultry hue is the most gorgeous way to welcome in spring. Squishy and lacy, with a super simple construction, this cowl has just enough warmth and elegance for sunny days or cool evenings.
Trimmed in Twill is originally our 2020 Advent Shawl pattern. You can use any combination of 12 fingering-weight yarns and colours, with a minimum of
Intuitively flowing from one transition to the next, like the way the winter sun dawns above a horizon of evergreens, this accessory brings rich colour to the forefront. Elegant and softly textural, the almost free-form stitches bring both comfort and ease to your knitting escape.
The Little Basic Cardi is a wardrobe staple you’ll want to knit time and time again. It features a lovely round neck, Short Row and English-Tailored shoulder options, and plenty of customizations to fit just about every body and sleeve length. Personalized, versatile, and perfect for every season.
The Little Basic Cardi is a wardrobe staple you’ll want to knit time and time again. It features a lovely round neck, Short Row and English-Tailored shoulder options, and plenty of customizations to fit just about every body and sleeve length. Personalized, versatile, and perfect for every season.
The Little Basic Cardi is a wardrobe staple you’ll want to knit time and time again. It features a lovely round neck, Short Row and English-Tailored shoulder options, and plenty of customizations to fit just about every body and sleeve length. Personalized, versatile, and perfect for every season.
The transition from smooth Stockinette stitch to textural openwork is a knit to savor. Whether worked in a solid, gradient, or multiple colours, the results make for an enchanting accessory for every season.
Lace is the star of the show in this decadent triangular shawl. A simple pattern worked from beginning to end in a lush, rich colour makes an accessory that is as wonderful to wear as it is to knit.
This two-color brioche hat is the perfect way to dip your toe into the waters of brioche.Beginner-friendly and a blank canvas for colour play, you’ll love this quick knit for every season of the year.
A gamp is a sampler, a weaver’s way of using a single warp to test out multiple ideas. It could be a colour gamp or a weave structure gamp or in this case a gamp that explores colour patterns. Colour and Weave is not a weave structure but rather a pattern, in the sense that it is simply plain weave with the addition of colour effects through alternating light and dark threads.
The first warp uses an easy all over houndstooth colour sequence leaving areas of solid yellow and white just like you would have in a fried egg and the second shows you how to use just a bit of striping to create a colour and weave highlight in the corner of your towels with a more muted scrambled egg palette where buttery and deep yellow combine. Mix and match and make them your own.
The M & W placemats weaving pattern is a twill quick to weave up in 3/2 cotton. Weave matching placemats or weave one long table runner.
In The Intentional Weaver course with Laura Fry, we learned how to beam a warp using a trapeze and this is the project we put on the loom. It’s a 5-yard / 4.6 m long 3/2 cotton warp that we threaded on 8 shafts in a “wall of troy” threading pattern. This pattern can also be threaded on 4 shafts, so both drafts are included here. Changing the treadling will produce new patterns.
Mitered Square blankets are perfect for stash busting, playing with geometry, and soothing the knitting mind. Go ahead and grab Tabetha’s Patterned Jewels blanket pattern because inside this short workshop, Tabetha is going to show you everything you need to make it.
Inspired by a rosepath pattern found in a vintage Swedish book of weaving designs. The sampler has a variety of motifs commonly found in krokbragd weaving. They are arranged in colorful bands with a broader field in the middle of the design.
Clasped weft project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this long, drapey silk-merino scarf is perfect for shoulder seasons where you want to wrap a soft cloth many times to keep out the cold.
Clasped warp project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this silk-merino cowl is perfect for shoulder seasons. Combining warp interlocking and plain-weave it’s a great project to highlight the power of the rigid heddle loom. Sewing the ends together creates an easy to wear cowl.
The Lace After Midnight Shawl pattern is swatched in the Crochet Basics course, so you are ready to knit the shawl.
The After Midnight Shawl pattern is swatched in the Crochet Basics course, so you are ready to knit the shawl.
If you’ve seen how gorgeous, fun, portable, satisfying socks are for other knitters and want to make them yourself, then this is the course for you! Socks may look complicated, but by the end of this workshop you’ll be able to knit a pair of socks at any gauge and with any yarn.
Learn, step by step, everything you need to know about knitting toe-up socks using any yarn and for any size foot. If you’ve seen how fun, portable and satisfying sock knitting can be, and want to learn how to make them yourself, then this is the course for you. Once you get the sock bug, it never lets go!
Symphony is an asymmetrical shawl pattern and 15-colour yarn set by Tabetha Hedrick that is available through our Holiday 2019 Kits & as a free pattern for SOS members.
In this series of videos, Tabetha walks you through the techniques to create this beautiful accessory so, no matter what knitting level you are at, you’ll be able to create this cozy accessory this holiday season.
Gentle Tidings is a triangular shawl pattern and 3-colour yarn set by Tabetha Hedrick that was exclusively available through Holiday 2019 Kits, now available for SOS members.
The project we’ll make in this series is the Five by Five Cowl: a cozy infinity loop cowl made by holding three yarns together (in our example we use 2 fingering weight yarns and a lace weight but you can use whatever you’d wish!). It’s a perfect project to practice these new skills on and have fun playing with texture and colour at the same time!
Stretch your lace knitting skills with beautiful lace pattern in the Tulsi toque, included in the “Become a Lace Knitter” Workbook.
Stretch your lace knitting skills with beautiful lace pattern: the Attitude Shawl, included in the “Become a Lace Knitter” Workbook.
How do you choose the right size to knit a sweater that fits? In the “Perfect Fit” course, SweetGeorgia Design Director, Tabetha Hedrick, will help you to get your perfect fit with the Mirim Tee.
Stretch your lace knitting skills with a beautiful lace patterns: the Prismatic Socks, included in the “Become a Lace Knitter” Workbook.
In the pattern, Felicia makes a series of twill blankets, but you could use the same idea and weave pillows, or a table runner, or a scarf.
Handwoven Twill Gamp Pattern. The first project in this workshop will be weaving a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Weave different houndstooth scarf patterns using a rigid heddle loom, 4-shaft, or 8-shaft loom.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
You’re going to make your first scarf! Right here, with this simple one worked only in the knit stitch, you’ll end up with a garter stitch scarf to be proud of.
Flannery is the perfect introduction to sweater knitting! With a relaxed silhouette, easy raglan sleeve construction, and comfortable fit, first-time sweater knitters will love the skill-building success and great look it brings.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
Diagonal swirls of knits and purls is texturally interesting, while remaining super simple. This hat whips up in a short weekend, and topped with a pom, it’s the perfect knitterly treat.
Handwoven Towel Pattern. Create a simple gradient in the warp by using a combination of six colours in the warp. Then weave with a rainbow of weft hues to create six completely different looks to your kitchen towels.
Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Weave a 15-hue colour gamp using sock yarn in plain weave. Enjoy the interactions of colour between these fifteen hues of a spectrum and weave your own colour gamp shawl. Work with gradient mini-skein sets or limit your colour selections to just analogous colours. The options are infinite!
Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Wrap yourself in a warm, toasty hug of bluefaced leicester wool and silk. This elegant and substantial handwoven shawl hangs beautifully around the shoulders with softness and drape. The colours blend to produce an almost iridescent effect.
Plain weave and twill sampler on a 4-shaft loom. Explore the incredible variety of textures, designs, and colour patterns that are possible with just four shafts and four colours! Here we use a DK weight yarn to play with plain weave, simple twills, and basketweave.
Weave a beautifully soft and simple scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a hand-dyed or handpainted sock yarn for the warp and create your cloth with a variety of colours in the weft to enjoy the colour interactions.
Weave a beautifully elegant and silky scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a range of hand-dyed semi-solid sock yarns for the warp and bring them all together with a single hand-dyed lace yarn.
