This will be my last post for a little while now as I am going into hospital for a spell (though hopefully not too long) where I shall probably have say goodbye to my needles and the internet for a bit whilst I recover.
Knowing that I had this hospital stay approaching, I have been trying [...]

I am back in the land of the living internet, and now that I am properly connected I have uploaded the very simple patterns for these two easy face cloths in one PDF file to download. With 26 knitting days left until Christmas, these would be lovely tied with a ribbon alongside some luxury [...]

I decided to go ahead and frog the Hot Water Bottle cover I had been knitting at the saddest of times and try to find something small and frivolous to re-use the yarn on. As the yarn that I had been using was cotton, I decided to make a couple of small face cloths [...]

A few weeks ago I took note that it was on it’s way. A small, almost whispering voice that told me not to leave it too late, that I should start preparing now, but obviously I told that voice straight back that it was ages away, that I had plenty of time. Yet, [...]

Squoffle is a short buttoned scarf, made with a single skein of bulky/chunky weight yarn. Though it is a very easy pattern every sixth row makes a departure from the established garter stitch to add a row of interest with knitted eyelets, some of which are later utilised as button holes (an additional boon [...]

Oubliette, from the French ‘oublier’, to forget.
In the immortal words of Hoggle from The Labyrinth:
An Oubliette is a place you put people to forget about them.

I have an oubliette, not for casting away annoying people that have done me wrong, but for projects that just never came to be, for whatever reason.  It’s not so [...]

What came first, the woolly or the mammoth?  Did these magnificent prehistoric pachyderms evolve or were they created… by knitters?  Here are two of my favourite things – knitting and natural history, in one T-shirt, designed by Eskimimi for Mr Cloud.
With knitting needles for tusks and a warm and cuddly knitted body, this mammoth really [...]

Lace knitting is like a regression. It essentially harnesses and brings under control the one thing you try to avoid as a new knitter – holes. Terrible when created accidentally, some crazy knitters make these holes on purpose, arranging them into intricate and beautiful patterns.
I have dipped my toe into the frothy pool [...]

Here is my latest pattern, ‘Marram’.  Featuring spiralling slipped stitches and a secondary spiral of stepped colour changes in thin, graphical stripes. I have been wearing this hat, knit in a blend of warm alpaca, merino, and even a touch of silk, quite a lot over the last week or so, now that the temperature [...]

I’m hoping that someone might be able to help me out of a quandary. I can’t seem settle upon a name for this hat.  It is always the first thing I decide upon when writing out a new pattern as it helps to confirm the character of the knitted object (if articles of knitwear [...]

When presenting myself with the question what can I make with just 35g of RYC Baby Alpaca DK? I decided to somehow try and combine it with 45g of RYC Silk Wool DK to make a more substantial project. I had a feeling that if I was careful I could make it stretch to [...]