I’m off on vacation with the family and finally have a second to post! YAY! First, I have a new cowl pattern for you! My sister asked me a few months ago if it was possible to make a knit möbius… so I designed a cowl for her! The pattern repeat is Fawn’s Eyes because my sister is a real-life Snow White. Animals approach her randomly. See: Like that. I also designed the cowl to have a lacy-pointed trim, so I included a little...

I hate dish rags, but I LOVE hand towels. Especially hand towels that really REALLY absorb water. So I made one. When What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? was coming out I needed some mindless knitting to keep me cognitively anchored (ahem) but not overwhelm me. Enter my very own hand towel. I blocked mine wet… well… just because that’s what I do when I wash knitted things. It didn’t really need it. The stitch pattern is easy when you know...

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Actually, I drink more tea these days, but a tea cozy is a totally different thing. This puppy fits a cup from that place that’s named after a character from Moby Dick but has an odd-looking green mermaid as it’s logo (ahem, which lets those of you who hate the place overlook that I’m using their cups as units of measure). This little pattern is part of my plaited cast-on class, but there is enough information in here for you...

I haven’t knit all of the patterns in my first book. I meant to. I wanted to. I’d planned to. But… well… that’s a lot of patterns. I have knit a few (and am happy to report that I continue to be overwhelmed and hugely proud of the book, it’s essays, and its patterns) but I have to fess up and say that Jane’s Ubiquitous Shawl scared the bejujus out of me. I don’t know why. I designed and knit two...