I love knitting stitch dictionaries.  They are perhaps my greatest knitting weakness.  I can spend (literally) hours leafing through the same pages over and over before beginning a new projects, armed with a selection of sticky-tab page-markers as I whittle down what I think will ‘work’, first marking about 20 or so for further consideration, [...]

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 [...]

Many modern knitters will be accustomed to the feeling of expectation surrounding the postman’s next visit, hoping that it will bring some yarn, or some other knitterly goodies in the next delivery. Not many people could have experienced a delivery of this magnitude, though:
Wit Knits, published 1986, is a catalogue of evil. Actually, [...]

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 [...]