Fiber Dancer Designs

Though you can get some of these through Ravelry, all of my patterns are available for direct purchase here! (and in some cases - for FREE!)

Unless you're going through another site, I can only accept Cash Funded PayPal, but I'm working on alternatives.

Though I haven't figured out how to tell the shopping cart this, each of these is ALSO available to purchase in hard copy.  The hard copies are more expensive (what with the cost of printing and purchasing the little sleeves etc), and will also incur shipping charges (which depend on your zip code).  If you'd like to buy one in hard copy, please email me, and I'll send you a PayPal invoice...

Just Released!

Daedelus
P1060504

Coming Fall 2009

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Prairie Corn Sock

This sock, along with its mate, will be representing Illinois in an upcoming book called  "50 Socks - 50 States," which will be published by Sirius Knitting Publications.  Sirius Knitting's fearless leader (Dr. Laura Andersson) has brought a lot of designers (focusing on newer designers) together for this effort.  Crystal Palace has provided all the yarn and will be handling wholesale distribution the CD when it's ready for prime time.  For more pictures and details about the book (and other socks in it) check out Socks and More with CPY and SiriusKnitting's blog as well as www.Straw.com.  If you stay tuned here, of course, I'll continue to toot my horn about my designs for the book, and the other sock I've designed for it.







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Field of Lupines

This sock, along with its mate, will be representing Maine in the "50 Socks - 50 States" book.











AVAILABLE NOW

Free Patterns

Patterns for Sale

Free Patterns

Smoke_rinkSimple Smoke Ring
FDK 0112

Using a high halo DK weight or a light worsted weight yarn, this simple design creates an elegant and warm cowl.  It uses a tubular cast on and tubular bind off (with instructions)

Click here .to download this free pattern


Simple Ribby Moebius Simple Ribby Moebius
FDK 0112

Using your favorite sportweight yarn, this easy moebius scarf lets you try out the Moebius technique while maintaining a truly reversible fabric. It can be worn in a casual loop, keeping your chest warm if you used wool, or just draping attractively in lighter yarns; or it can be doubled for a cozy cowl effect.

It uses Cat Bordhi's Moebius Cast On, which can be found in her book A Treasury of Magical Knitting, or online at the DIY Network and Cat demonstrates it on YouTube.

Click here to download this free pattern.


Patterns for Sale

P1060504  Daedelus
- FD- 0902

This design was inspired by Miriam Feltons’ Icarus. It is closer to a faroese shape than her triangle, and has many layers of feathered ends, and uses beads! This shawl works well at a variety of gauges, on a variety of yarns… and can be successfully knit in lace-weight, light fingering, fingering, or even light sport-weight and still be marvelous.

There are five sets of charts, each of which is comprised of two or three sections. It may sound hard, but actually it's no more than intermediate. I'm just thorough in my charting :-) In addition, the pattern includes two options - a wide version, and a narrower version.  These versions may be offered separately in the future.

$12.00 CASH FUNDED PayPal for pdf download.

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Many thanks to the gracious and generous women who test knit this pattern for me: Janna C. Lawrence, Carla Willingham and Deidre Kennedy. Without them, the charts would NOT be right!


Picture A  Lacy Mitts
- FDK- 0901

This lacy fingerless glove has a touch of ribbing at the wrist to improve the fit.  The simple lace pattern extends into the thumb, but disappears for the palm so that it won't catch on little things when you pick them up.  Great for 'tweens!  Great for adults too!

And, because of the stretchy nature of the lace pattern, they fit a wide range of hands. They use a single skein of DK weight yarn.

$5.00 CASH FUNDED Paypal for pdf download.

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P1030802 Danish Seaman's Scarf -  FD-0703

This scarf was designed for OFA's Red Scarf Project in conjunction with the Blog Tour for Donna Druchunas' book  Ethnic Knitting: Discovery: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and The Andes

It uses a provisional cast on (for which I recommend Judy's Magic Cast On), and simple knit/purl textures.

Please use it to make a scarf for OFA (and for yourself or family and friends, of course!)

I will contribute 50% of all proceeds from the sale of this scarf to the OFA.

$5.00 for pdf download.
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P1030925 Arrowhead Moebius Shrug
- FD- 0704

This shrug uses Cat Bordhi's moebius cast on, and includes additional shaping to allow for more coverage in the back.  The  simple lace pattern is fully reversible.  It uses ~ 550 yds of sport-weight yarn. 

                                                            $6.00 for pdf download.

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JOYful Lace Socks - FD-0701
These were originally designed for Just Our Yarns, and were on display at a variety of shows including Stitches Midwest in 2007!  They use a variant of one of Cat Bordhi's new Sockitectures, and a lovely but simple to memorize lace pattern.

$6.00 for pdf download


Mendocino Clock Socks - FD-0601

These socks include instructions for optional "arch darts" -- to help those with high arches make socks that fit comfortably snugly.  The cable pattern was inspired by the Mendocino Sweater from Pacific Coast Highway.

$6.00 for pdf download


Babette - FD-0702

I designed this blanket for a co-worker's daughter.  It was inspired by a simple pattern described in one of Debbie Macomber's books, but soon sprang into a more involved knit when the ruffled edge got involved.  Though the ruffled edge make a big difference in the look of the shawl, it is not difficult to knit time consuming perhaps, as each round gets noticably longer than the preceding round, but not difficult.

$4.00 for a pdf download


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