webbed flower
I keep forgetting to write: the flower in this pattern has a knitted lace web between the petals which keeps the petals in place. No more...
designed to make you smile
You know the problem. You are at a party; you put down your bottle of beer and, when you turn around to retrieve it, you cannot find it...
rib top-down hat
I have just put a revised version of this pattern onto the Ravelry website and, because it is free, onto my patterns page on this site....
it's my office and...
I will make paper hats if I want to. James, the cactus, may become inspiration for another hat design.
ear-to-ear hat
I have wanted to experiment with this hat shape for a while – see the post about 30 days of drawing. The day at Fabrications was...
the three hats that shaped the brief
More mistakes will follow, but these three hats helped to fine-tune the brief. Nothing too decorative or fanciful – do not try and...
blake's tiger
The chart above is one of the first designs for the book Animal hats to knit. I was trying to work to a brief, and this design was based...
penguin
The chart above illustrates the very first design I produced for Animal hats to knit. The notes are my notes. The publishers did not like...
30 days of drawing
I am not a fan of Facebook. However, I have discovered the anonymity Facebook can provide. I have joined a group of people who have...
first thoughts
These are the very first sketches I did for a series of animal hat patterns, that I planned to sell on Ravelry. They represent a stream...