A few months ago the wonderful UK knitting magazine Yarn Forward published a series of patterns for mystery blankets squares, 6 each month, which were shown only as charts or written instructions, with no pictures of how the finished squares would look.  I thought this would be a good project for me as the mixture [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I posted about a quirky little typeface I found one day and about its uses for design and layouts for knitterly folk, but also the possibility of it perhaps working as a quick and easy way to generate charts for knitted words.
Using the graphic I made yesterday, I managed to knit this (please excuse [...]

A while ago I was wandering merrily through Internetland, watching balls of wool skip happily through the meadows, scampering around the giant cones of yarn, whilst listening to the gentle soothing sound of the needles clicking away in the trees when I stumbled upon Knitfont. I picked myself back up and considered this cute [...]