Free Patterns

Posted by on Feb 23, 2012 in Blog Fun, freebies, Knitting, patterns, Sock Knitting, tutorial |

Free things for you! I’ve been working on adding patterns and goodies to my Ravelry store and CafePress shops for CraftLit and WWMDfK?. There’s always more to do, but so far I have a lot of free things for you (and a couple that aren’t free but I thought I’d throw them in as they are related). Enjoy! Bags |   Socks | Sock Heels Socks How to Knit Socks Free This free eBook gives you everything you need to know about...

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Game of Thrones and Other Bookishness

Posted by on Feb 22, 2012 in Blog Fun, Defarginess, Knitting, patterns | 2 comments

You’re all very sweet and tolerant of my long-ish pauses on this blog while I write and edit another knitting book, write a novel, podcast, and design patterns, but for a long time now I’ve wanted to try to tie this blog into the rest of that lot a bit better. What better way to start than with Game of Thrones?! Meg Warren, who you may know from What Would Madame Defarge Knit? and   The March Hare yarns, has designed the most...

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Knitting Scary. Must Eat Scones

Posted by on Oct 30, 2011 in Blog Fun, Gluten Free, patterns | 1 comment

I’ve been designing a design that makes my other designs look like scrap paper. I’m not proud. I’m just honest. It’s complicated stranded colorwork, includes steeks and plackets and all sorts of hardware and things and it might kill both me and my test knitter, but gosh darn it, it’s for a friend and it’s important. So. While that’s killing me softly, I decided to eat. Scones. The weather has turned;...

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A Dickens of a Christmas — The Cratchette

Posted by on Nov 12, 2010 in Blog Fun, Knitting, patterns |

Bob Cratchit is famous for a few things—being father of Tiny Tim, being cold, being basically cheerful, and having fingerless mitts in most representations of him. While it would be nice to knit some fine-gauge fingerless mitts as Christmas presents, my reality is that I have far too much knitting to do in far too little time. Instead, I worked up this little pattern for our Holiday Hop. For your knitting pleasure, I would like to...

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