Squoffle (pattern)

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 [...]

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Oubliette

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 [...]

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