This week, I started posting links to free patterns for Aran sweaters. These are cardigans and pullovers that have intricate cables and textures, similar to a style that developed on the Aran islands ...

If knitting plain beanie hats or toques is getting boring, or the prospect of making them is putting you to sleep, perhaps you would like to make something more complicated. Sometimes concentrating on ...

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Every stitch of an Isles of Aran sweater traces back to a language of patterns born on the rocky outcrops between Galway Bay and the Atlantic. Cable, honeycomb, and moss stitches carry meanings that ...