Category: pattern by me

  • Meat Hat (free pattern)

    Meat Hat (free pattern)

    My kid decided he wanted to have a “meat hat” with pixel art meat on it, so I made one to his specifications. This post has all the charts he made in case anyone ever wants to make their own.

  • Pikmin hat

    Pikmin hat

    I know the yarniverse is all abuzz with a very pink movie coming out this weekend, but my kid and I are more excited about Pikmin 4, so I made some fanart at my kid’s request.

  • Spring Rainbow Shawl notes

    Spring Rainbow Shawl notes

    I bought these lovely yarns from the ChemKnits Spring Mini Series. My kid and I have been enjoying her tutorials for dyeing yarn with food colouring, and so I thought this would be a nice way to support the channel and give me and kiddo a week of videos to watch. Plus he loves rainbows.…

  • Steven the Bat socks

    Steven the Bat socks

    Years ago, a friend named the local bat who appears in the evenings at our house “Steven.” Since I can’t identify humans in the dark let alone bats, we have henceforth declared that all bats are named Steven. Which is why it’s especially appropriate to have two Stevens on your socks. This isn’t a complete,…

  • Queer Enough Shawl

    Queer Enough Shawl

    This one’s for all the folk who might not “look” queer: the bi folk in “straight” relationships, the trans and non-binary folk who maybe don’t “look” queer to outsiders, the ace folk, and everyone else who struggles with whether they’re really “queer enough” for a LGBTQA+ space. This free shawl pattern is intended as a…

  • Books: July 31, 2022

    Books: July 31, 2022

    Playdate sweater has 1.5 sleeves and I sewed the pocket linings in, but then my hands decided sleeve knitting was uncomfortable so it’s taking a break and I’m working on the rainbow shawl which has made it all the way to purple!  I actually have most of a blog post ready to go with the…

  • Patio Stones pattern preview

    Patio Stones pattern preview

    My yarn subscription for this year is the Made Here Yarn Club 2020 from Sincere Sheep, which was a splurge but one I could afford and one that focuses on local makers. Pretty cool! I decided to make up my own pattern (after getting partway through a lovely hat and realizing I wasn’t feeling it).…

  • Laser engraved toy dog collars

    Laser engraved toy dog collars

    Yup, you read that right. I have a Glowforge laser cutter/engraver that had so many delays in manufacturing that it wound up arriving when I was 9 months pregnant. So it hasn’t gotten quite as much use as I’d planned, but I did use it for some holiday presents! And then I forgot to take…

  • Medallion hat using Jimmy Beans Big Beanie Bag – April 2017

    Medallion hat using Jimmy Beans Big Beanie Bag – April 2017

    I’ve actually *just* as of September cancelled my Big Beanie Bag subscription, because I’m anticipating a busy fall and my projects have piled up to the point where I need a break. Still, I have managed to knit some of them up! April’s Bag looked like this: And here’s a photo summary of what I…

  • Triangle Hat

    Triangle Hat

    I bought some mini skeins from Knitted Wit to make a hat, but then the pattern that I was sure I had didn’t seem to exist in my pattern collection, so I made it up as I went and this is the result.

  • Crochet Pokéball Postcard Pattern

    Crochet Pokéball Postcard Pattern

    My favourite local yarn store, Black Sheep at Orenco, got turned into a pokémon gym with the advent of Pokémon Go, and I was so pleased by this that I thought I’d make a pattern! Now, pokéball patterns are a dime a dozen, but what I wanted was something that would be easy to print…

  • Pi day t-shirt (free silhouette cut file)

    Pi day t-shirt (free silhouette cut file)

    I designed this shirt for my sister as part of a belated pi day present: This was done using my Roboknife (also known as a Silhouette Portrait Craft Cutter, but that’s way too much of a mouthful to talk about my robotic knife. Well, okay, it’s more of a scalpel, but whatever.) and two colours…