I’ve been designing! My new beastie is Wensleydale. He’s a Liliputian friend for Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter. I made mine with about 30yds of leftover sock yarn and finished him in one night of TV with the husband. Wensleydale Cheddar We’re also working on clothes for Cheddar (he might get chilled in the air conditioning, after all) so I’ve constructed a ruff for him. That pattern is free and you can download...

* * *  Newsy bits * * * Cheddar! What’s a Cheddar, you ask? Cheddar is my new buddy. I’ve got two (well, the second is getting his tail this evening). It was time for CraftLit to have a mascot, enter… Cheddar, the CraftLit Critter (pattern)! or get it by Subscribing (i.e., committing to a monthly payment) to CraftLit Or Purchase a completed,  knitted Cheddar from  Penny  for $36 via  little acorn creations  (coming soon!) He...

I have a new pattern for you—one that induced my husband to start calling me a Yarngineer. Life or Death socks for Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games series. In honor of the opening of the film, I wanted to design a pair of socks I thought would be worthy of Katniss—and able to stand up to the solid beating I imagine that young (hunted) hunter would give to her socks as she ran for her life. * * * Below please find specs I...

I have had the pleasure and honor of working with Ms Hunter Hammersen a few times and I am here to tell you that you will never be disappointed with her patterns. Why am I bothering to broadcast this to you now? Because her new book it out! Yes! The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet is a lovely concept and a lovlier book. Head over here, Ravelry: The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet, and have a...

I learned how to make this shawl so long ago, I don’t recall the when or the where. I made a lot of them. They were easy—and because of this pattern I never had a fear of short-rows. I was doing them without knowing they had a name. Students who had just learned to knit in the wake of the 9/11 attacks helped me knit one for our principal (see below). You can see how lovely the shawl can be with completely random (though related) colors...

Ah, the mythic Hair Clip Cap! The post that time forgot. Sorry, I’d had this scheduled as a draft and didn’t get to it in time.   So! I wrote a pattern for a hair clip hat. Why? Because I wear my hair up in a banana clip and I can’t fit a hat over the clip! What you need to know to knit it— Skills​  decreasing  seed stitch pattern  mid-row cast-on  crochet  picking up stitches (with or without crochet hook)...