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Tonia

Tonia is a knitting teacher, knitwear designer & technical editor, and writer living in Quebec, Canada.

Longshore Currents Cowl

The Longshore Currents cowl is a perfect project for practicing stranded colorwork techniques. With just two colors you can practice the necessary skills without having to constantly change yarn colors. The cowl is knit lengthwise before sewing the cast-on and bind-off edges together. Stitch pattern is charted only (no written instructions for the stranded colorwork […]

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Owl Cowl & Mitts

The Owl Cowl & Mitts are knit using stranded colorwork. Each piece is cast on and worked in the round with two-color corrugated ribbing before beginning the owl motif (charted instructions only). The cowl finishes with another section of corrugated ribbing while the mitts use k1p1 rib and have an afterthought thumb. Download Digital knitting

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Color Adventure Shawl

The Color Adventure Shawl is a top-down triangle shawl that works best with a color-changing yarn that has long color changes like the sample yarn, Gauge Dye Works self-striping shawl yarn. Instead of working specific row amounts, whenever the color changes, you change stitch patterns. All of the stitch patterns are simple enough for beginners

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