Well, we’ve done it! Saturday, Pattern Day has been around for a whole year. Here’s the very first one I posted on June 2nd, 2007. Boy, does time fly! To celebrate 364 days of SDPD, I’m posting a special Double Digest. Think you can handle it?!

If you are knitting or have already knit a pattern that I’m talking about, leave me a comment and I’ll update my post with a link to your version. If you’ve written up a pattern and you want me to link to it, send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll post it! It makes the list longer and my job easier.

Here’s a hard rockin’ pair of Punk Rock Knit Corset Gloves.	This Mini Cactus just wants to be your friend.
Caption! Sprout Hat!	Some bright red Princess Mitts.
Check out Lankakomero’s Frost Flowers top. It’s beautiful. I swear, I love everything Finnish.	This Amigurumi Rabbit disappeared from the web a little while ago and now it’s back and still cute.
The Pencil Sketch camisole is a stripey lacey number.	This $5 in Paris Sweater is very pretty and simple.
The Spring Forward Fall Back Raglan is chunky and sassy.	Drops has a nice pullover… for a boy!
I like March from Berroco.	Kaleidoscope was published in Magknits, but is available for free on the author’s site. And it’s green! I love it.
Josephine is very Starsky-ish.	The Mrs. Darcy Cardigan is very dainty.
This Tunic-length knitted pullover is spicy! And available through Canadian Living, which is crazy.	Arbor has a really nice set of complementary stitch patterns. Pretty!
The Daliet Blouse is from the 1937 Jack Frost Sweaters book.	This Seed Stitch Baby Jacket is cute.
Super Mario thingies! Here is a star (example here) and a Mushroom (without the white dots, example here).	These Mojo Socks could use a little restructuring (to pull up the left sock, make them even etc), but the design is really ingenious.
Oh the captioning! Errr… Ah… Tracy. Too tired now. Off to sleep.	Bella Paquita
Eiffel	Soy Cardi
DROPS Raglan Sweater in Alpaca	Katelyn
Charisma	Un Lapin Amigurumi
Vine Lace Cuffs	Hogwarts House Fair Isle Bags
Marijke	Mug and French Press Jacket
Evening Shrug	Frog pincushion
Floral Fantasy Shawl	A New Leaf
Little Hippo

From Vogue Knitting: a boatneck pullover, shoulder-slit sweater, off-the-shoulder pullover, cosmopolitan cardigan, aran gauntlets, voyager lace stole, galaxy scarf, cabled pullover, striped top, baby jumper, man’s cabled sweater, map of the world afghan, rolled collar shrug, tank top, and a cabled bag!

Happy Anniversary!

Here’s a gorgeous Forties Flared Dress via Craft.

The pattern for the dress is here. It’s the Evening Dress with a “Cowl” Neck Line (Fig. 157). It’s amazing how different the drawing looks from the finished project! I just can’t get over how incredible it is. I wish I had the patience to sew!

Here’s a beautiful tutorial for a beeping Robot Softie. I WANT ONE!

I’ve fallen in love with Kanzashi. Here’s what Wikipedia says about them:

Kanzashi are created by Japanese artisans from squares of silk by a technique known as tsumami. Each square is multiply folded with the aid of pincers and cut into a single petal. These are attached to backings of metal to create whole flowers, or attached to silken threads to create strings of blossoms…. Geisha wear different hana kanzashi according to the month, or public holiday. In the summer months (June to September), jade ornaments with white or silver themes are worn. During the winter months (October to May), tortoiseshell and coral kanzashi are worn.

Here are some beautiful Kanzashi I’ve found on the web:

Japanese Hair Ornaments for Geisha Kimono Costume & Cosplay

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goodEGG Industries is a new craft shop that sells only Canadian crafts. They carry rikrak, purveyors of these beautiful vintage recycled fabric quilt coasters that remind me of some timeless Canadian graphic design. I also like this Woodgrain & Wool Journal and Moose Antler Ring.

If you like knitting socks, keep them in line with this Sock Acorn. So adorable!

Before we get to the patterns, I’d like to share something I’ve been musing about. I’m considering changing the format of these pattern posts slightly, to include little images of each pattern (if they’re available) so you can see a preview before clicking over to them. This would involve slightly more work on my part, but I think I can manage it. What do you guys think? Would you appreciate seeing thumbnails of each pattern, or could you care less?

If you are knitting or have already knit a pattern that I’m talking about, leave me a comment and I’ll update my post with a link to your version. If you’ve written up a pattern and you want me to link to it, send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll post it! It makes the list longer and my job easier.

• It’s crochet so it might not belong on this list, but I don’t care. I love this frilly coin purse!
• I also like the Shalom Cardigan. I would prefer it with a cap sleeve, but that’s easy to modify.
• I love seeing patterns with real structural ingenuity, and Leethal’s Short-Rows Wavy Hat has that in spades.
• Have you been looking around for a one of those Bowtie Scarves that everyone’s been knitting? Well here’s a pattern to knit your very own Bowtie Scarf. Example here. There’s also another version of this at Drops.
• This bright and shiny sweater is based on the famous Anthropologie cardigan, and it is mega-cute.
• Here’s a recipe for the sassymetrical cardigan.
• I must have randomly come across this link for free Rowan patterns at the same time as the big shots, because a few days after I saved these links to my Pattern Day Repository the web exploded over them. I need to start posting these links faster so I’m not longer being scooped! Here are my favourites: Crystal, Pippa, Navaho, Soldier, Gentry Cushion, Minx, Cable Sweater, Chrissie, Hardy, Ralph, and a Fitted Zipped Jacket.
• I can’t remember if I’ve blogged these Love Heart Socks before, so here they are again.
• Lurema and Scarfina are two new Berroco patterns based on the Ogee Leaf Lace stitch.
• This Smocked Top would be quite elegant for summer.
• Here’s a lace beret pattern for those of you who are not all bereted out yet.
• Here’s a crochet shark toy, or Haifisch in German. Example here.
• I think I’ve seen something very similar to this Lace Capelet before. Example here.
• Here’s a Makeup Bag pattern with a bonus stethoscope warmer, for some reason.

I love this top, and it looks insanely easy! I’m not much of a tube top sorta gal, but I am so tempted to try this. I even have some fabric lying around that would be perfect. The only embarrassment? We usually use it to wrap presents on Christmas. Hermmm, maybe I should find something with a less lame history. Found via CRAFT!

Open-Contents is a project by Toronto based glass artist Brad Turner…. As an installation of 26 hand made bottles, collectively representing the letters on a keyboard, participants are encouraged to submit their own message, via website, to the character of their choosing. For every electronic submission, the message will be printed and kept within the corresponding bottle…. Reflecting the nature of online participation, these gestures are recorded and archived, while only a few will be discovered.

Via Toronto Craft Alert.

I can’t decide if this is really 80s or really awesome. Maybe it’s both. Either way, it’s easy, too! Bunch of beads, bunch of string, and a big round doohickey. Simple as pie.