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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cute and very warm hat, and an especially fast knit. Made from a single 100g skein of bulky yarn (Álafoss Lopi was used in the hat pictured) it is a perfect instant gratification project for the onset of the colder months of the year. With cute elfin shaping at the top of the [...]

Have you ever been given a random ball of yarn, of unknown origin, that you know you’ll never be able to find another of and which you don’t know what to do with?
When I once took part in a magazine swap, the issue that I received from my swap partner came unopened with two (different) [...]

Below is a picture of the chart of the stylised Christmas tree I designed to knit into Edward’s socks.  There are four sections to the chart; the set up round, the ‘branches’, the ‘tree trunk’ and the ‘ground’  The chart is worked across 12 stitches and can be adapted in height by altering the number [...]

Last year, a few months after I had started to learn how to knit, and when the weather had started to turn cold as the first signs of winter approached, I turned my mind to the possibility of doing a bit of Christmas knitting.  The person I most wanted to knit something for was my [...]

The Nintendo DS has been one of the most spectacular successes in the world of gadgetry that there has ever been. Resting on the coffee tables, desks, and slung into the bags of schoolchildren, businessmen and grannies alike it was the first gaming innovation that crossed the boundaries of age, and as such it is [...]

This was my first attempt at writing up my ideas for a pattern.  This instructional is all about one way of handling colour changes in yarn that has long, gradual lengths of colour that fade into each other – the inspiration coming from Rowan Colourscape Chunky (in colours by Kaffe Fassett).
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