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Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶
@peridragon.bsky.social
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I design colourful knitting patterns with innovative details, often inspired by science and nature but occasionally best described as, “But why would you do that?!”

Trekkie, LOTR fan, nerd in general.
Website: https://www.periwinkledragon.ca/links/
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Stripes in knitting are so fun! Self-striping yarn or pattern-made stripes; there are so many fun things you can do with them.

🧶 More patterns for stripes: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/fea...

#showmeyourknits #knitting #knittingpattern #knitsky
Right-side view of grey and blue socks with stripes that are distorted on the sides. Striped knitted socks crossed over each other on sock blockers with graphic distorted diagonal pattern and matching heel. Woman holding up a purple and grey knitted shawl with lace sections, irregular stripes, and a textured edge. Side view of two pairs of feet wearing knitted socks in a variable-width striping pattern.
August 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Got sock yarn scraps? Knit up every last bit with super-easy flair with the Yocto Socks!

🧶 Pattern link: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/yoc...

#knitting #sockknitting #knitsky #knittingpattern #showmeyourknits
Multicoloured knitted socks with spiralling colourwork pattern.
August 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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My big July project was releasing five new sock patterns for my latest eBook! I had so much fun designing and knitting the patterns for Interjection! Socks, and after months of work behind the scenes, it’s so great to have them all finally released.

Five pairs of feet wearing colourful hand-knitted socks with a variety of slipped-stitch textures. Text: “Interjection! Socks Modern Sock Designs That Inspire Old-Fashioned Exclamations by Carolyn Lisle”
August 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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For #ShowMeYourKnits this week, it’s about knitted love! ❤️

These are my Llama Tracks Socks, inspired by the footprints of the guardian llama of a local sheep farm who spent his whole life protecting his beloved sheep family. 🦙

🧶 Pattern: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/lla...
Feet wearing red knitted socks with wide lace panel that is shaped like both hearts and llama toes.
February 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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#ShowMeYourKnits this week is all about stripes! I love manipulating self-striping yarn on knitted socks — here are some of my favourite striped projects:

Oblique Reflex Socks
Dizzy Diamonds Socks
Pictum Socks
X-pression Socks

🧶 More here: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/yar...

#SockKnitting
Feet wearing knitted socks with blue and grey stripes that bend on the sides. Feet wearing knitted socks with blue diamond colourwork and yellow, orange, brown, and red stripes. Knitted socks with lines of slipped stitches and blue, pink, yellow, white, and black stripes that bend towards the centre. Feet wearing knitted socks with blue, green, pink, and black stripes with columns of slipped-stitch X motifs.
February 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I knew when I chose this yarn for a design sample that I was making a mistake — it is very difficult to photograph. But TBH I just really wanted these neon rainbow knitted socks. 🤣

🧶 Pattern: Bass Sonic Texture Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/bas...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting
Feet and legs wearing black and white pants and neon rainbow knitted socks with zigzag texture.
January 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Well, as of this morning, officially everyone at my house is sick with a cold. So it’s a dragon lounge pants, knitted socks, and six mugs of raspberry-lemon tea kind of day.

🧶 Pattern: Slip On Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/sli...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting
Feet and legs wearing grey and black pants with dragon print and black and white knitted socks with spiral patterning and red and blue accents.
January 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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For #ShowMeYourKnits, here are a few of my favourite knitting projects with cables!

They are:
- Iralai Socks (pink)
- Quaviver Socks (green)
- Friendship Bracelet Socks (rainbow on grey)
- Vastness of Space Socks (striped)

More here: www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/fea...

#SockKnitting
Feet wearing bright pink knitted socks with spiralling cables. Feet wearing bright green knitted socks with wide cables. Feet wearing grey knitted socks with rainbow cables. Feet wearing striped knitted socks with wide cable panel.
January 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It’s a pink day today! I got my nails done yesterday and they accidentally match these knitted socks along with the cozy pants (I got up today and it was -20 🥶).

🧶 Pattern: Just Jealous Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/jus...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting #Knitting
Feet and legs wearing magenta pants and magenta, blue, and purple knitted socks with zigzag slipped-stitch texture. Feet and legs wearing magenta pants and magenta, blue, and purple knitted socks with zigzag slipped-stitch texture. A hand in the foreground has nails painted a matching shade of pink-purple.
January 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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These unicorn pants seemed to call for some neon knitted socks today! Bonus, they’re stranded so they’re extra-warm for today’s “sunny but -15 degrees” weather. 🥶

🧶 Pattern: Sunglasses At Night Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/sun...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting
Feet and legs on grey couch wearing black and white unicorn print pants and neon rainbow striped knitted socks with black sunglasses and sparkles motifs.
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Okay, so, I know these greens clash, but how gorgeous is this @fireweedfibreco.bsky.social yarn? This is one if my absolute favourite pattern samples, and still vibrant after many washes! 😁

🧶 Pattern: Quaviver Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/qua...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting
Legs and feet wearing dark blue-green plaid pants and bright yellow-green knitted socks with wide, elongated-stitch mirrored cable patterning.
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The colours of these fleece pants and knitted socks match so well that it looks like I coordinated it on purpose! (I didn’t; I just have too much pink/purple/blue clothing… 😆)

🧶 Pattern: Sonic Texture Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/son...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #SockKnitting
Legs and feet wearing light pink, purple, and blue pants with tie-dye motif and knitted socks in the same colours with overlapping zigzag texture patterning.
January 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I admit that I am really into purple, but this knitting project combined with my nails might be over the top, even for me. 😆

Yarn 🧶: @fireweedfibreco.bsky.social
Partially knitted sock on sock ruler in yarn that is various shades of purple. A thumb with a nail painted periwinkle is holding it.
January 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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It’s here! 😍 🦖 🧶
Yarn dyed in bright yellow, green, and red with Fireweed Fibre Co label.
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Today’s space leggings and solar system knitted socks are brought to you by 10 more cm of snow that needs shovelling later (hopefully by someone else so I can knit my sock heel 😆).

🧶 Pattern: Vastness of Space Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/vas...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #selfstripingyarn
Feet and legs wearing galaxy-print pants and knitted socks with cables. The socks are knit in self-striping yarn that is predominantly grey, with sections of orange, purple, green, blue, red, and pink.
January 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It’s -20 outside and I’m going absolutely nowhere today, so it’s definitely a day for my most ridiculous fuzzy leggings and fun knitted socks.

🧶 Pattern: Friendship Bracelet Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/fri...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #knitting
Feet and legs wearing cartoonish-print pants and grey knitted socks with neon rainbow braid motifs.
January 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Currently the most sassy female cardinal in the neighbourhood is yelling at me through the window because I’m knitting instead of going out in the snow to refill her favourite feeder. 😆

🧶 Pattern: X-pression Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/x-p...)

#KnittedSocksOfTheDay #BackyardDinosaurs
Feet wearing knitted socks with black, blue, pink, and green stripes and columns of X motifs.
January 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This morning I had my very first (and hopefully last) root canal. So cozy socks in front of the fireplace with my knitting and a low-stress TV show are just what I need.

🧶 Pattern: Slipper On Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/patterns/sli...)

#knitting #KnittedSocksOfTheDay
Feet wearing blue and purple knitted socks with spiralling slipped-stitch texture in front of a small gas fireplace.
January 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I can’t help myself; every time I wear these pants I also have to wear my knitted socks that sit right in that “kind of matches but also kind of clashes” place with them. 🤣 🧶

Pattern: Zöllner Socks (www.periwinkledragon.ca/zollner-socks/)

#knitting #KnittedSocksOfTheDay
Legs wearing pants with large-scale black and white houndstooth motif and feet wearing knitted socks with black and white optical illusion motif (heels and toes are red).
January 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Here’s my proper intro thread!

I design unique and sometimes unhinged knitting patterns (mostly socks). I have technique videos and help articles on my website: www.periwinkledragon.ca

🧶 I love indie yarn, and I like to find ways to use wild colourways that are more interesting than vanilla socks.
Collage of sixteen colourful knitted items (fourteen pairs of socks, one shawl, and one scarf).
January 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Here’s a photo of some of my designs (I have about 75 in total). I do love wild yarn! 🧶

I mostly knit socks, but I also design shawls and other accessories too. My weirdest inspiration so far is probably the one named after a parasitic fungus, or maybe the one about ruining CRT monitors. 😂
Collage of colourful hand-knitted items.
November 17, 2024 at 5:55 AM