A simple, easily memorized slip-stitch pattern combined with four coordinated colors makes for a stunning cowl that is surprisingly easy to knit. Both sides of the fabric are attractive, which gives you lots of styling options.

Blocks of color stacked on top of each other form the intriguing Tower of Colors Scarf.

A simple, easily memorized slip-stitch pattern combined with four coordinated colors makes for a stunning neck scarf that is surprisingly easy to knit. The scarf features a stylish ribbed shawl collar and a matching ribbed section at the center back that makes it comfortable and easy to wear around your neck.

The Herringbone Pi Shawlette is an exercise in texture and color. It resembles a circular capelet, but has no buttons or buttonholes for maximum flexibility in wearing options. Leave it open and draped around your shoulders or use your favorite shawl jewelry to keep it closed.

The Fading Tweed Shawl is a dramatic and versatile piece that is sure to turn heads. The unusual shape of this shawl allows it to be worn in many different ways to achieve a variety of looks. Create sleeves by using pedestal buttons; add a shawl pin and wear it as a cape; wear it upside down. It’s all up to you.

This cowl comes with an interesting twist: two lace patterns come together to form a tube wide enough to fit around your shoulders. The tube is twisted and held in place with temporary or pedestal buttons to offer a subtle reference to the Edwardian silhouette.

A simple, easily memorized slip-stitch pattern combined with four coordinated colors makes for a stunning hat and mitt combination that is surprisingly easy to knit.

The straight-sided toque is knit in the round from the bottom up, beginning with a rolled edge brim. At the top, rounds of reverse stockinette stitch create the welt, then the flat crown is formed by a mad swirl of decrease rounds in variegated yarn.

A single easily memorized stitch pattern combines with four brilliant colors to create an addictive knitting experience. The ever-changing interplay of colors keeps the knitting interesting.

Because every other stitch is slipped, Linen stitch creates a dense, firm fabric resembling woven tapestry. I enhanced this quality by working with a needle several sizes smaller than usual to produce an envelope clutch perfectly sized to hold just your essentials and perhaps a tiny treasure or two. A large snap keeps the flap closed, while a spectacular button sewn on the outside pretends to do the job.

This asymmetric triangular shawl is worked flat from the bottom point up, starting with just 3 stitches. It features a simple stitch pattern in combination with a gradient mini-skein color progression, Latvian braids, and a corrugated ribbing finish to produce a complex-looking texture that is surprisingly easy to knit.

The Midvale Avenue Shawl is designed to make full use of a gradient mini-skein set and uses an 8-wedge construction that produces a swirly shape that shows off those colors as it drapes elegantly around the shoulders. It is knit from the top down, using a simple 6-stitch, 12-row lace stitch pattern, then bound off as the edging is worked along the lower edge. Both stitch patterns are written out, as well as charted.

Designed especially for that gorgeous single skein of hand-dyed sock yarn that you don’t know what to do with, the Hilgard Avenue Shawlette uses a simple slip stitch pattern to blend the yarn’s runs of color, thus minimizing pooling.

This pattern is perfect for the advanced beginner who wants to move forward from flat scarves. Designed to take advantage of a gradient color set of mini skeins, the I’m Spiraling Cowl allows the yarn colors to shine.

Simple lines and simple stitches create a classy, modern look with enough pattern work to let the lace stand out.

Working cables in ribbing produces an astonishing double-sided fabric, even though the cables are worked only on the right side.

Designed to take advantage of a gradient color set of mini skeins, the Gradiently Inclined Cowl lets the yarn do the heavy lifting.

Combining a modern linear “striping” sequence with a traditional Shetland lace edging, the Patrice Wrap is a gossamer rectangular stole, perfect for dressing up a party frock for a summer wedding or any festive occasion.

Named for a village on the island of Westray, Orkney Islands, the Pierowall Tam is worked in the Fair Isle technique. With a 13.5-inch (34 cm) diameter, this is an oversized tam that provides a large canvas for the colored stitch patterns.

This luxuriously long rectangular wrap, inspired by an image of a starry sky above a ring of evergreens, features two lace patterns; the upper pattern is beaded to evoke the star-filled sky.

A little confection to keep your shoulders warm, Rosaura is a crescent-shaped shawl knit from the bottom up using three lace patterns and finishing with a rolled stockinette neck edge. The stitch patterns show the beautiful shadings of this variegated yarn to their best advantage, while the shape helps to keep the shawl in place without a shawl pin.