About Me

My name is Hunter Hammersen, and I knit tiny nonsense. I live in coastal Maine, where I can often be found poking at seaweed with a bit of driftwood or visiting my favorite mossy tree stump. There is almost certainly a rock in my pocket right this minute. If you ask nicely, I might just show it to you.

I’m fat, I swear a lot, and I have ridiculous hair. And I am unapologetically shouty about political stuff. No really, I’m the scary, dangerous feminist your angry uncle rants about on facebook. Here, check this out…abortions are good and everyone should have access to them, trans people are good and should get the support they need, unions are good and more people should be in them, police are bad and should be defunded, fascists are bad and we should stop electing them, racists are bad and we should stop humoring them, genocide is bad and Israel should stop doing one, and this pandemic is very much not over and you should be wearing a mask in public places.

If you buy my work, I will absolutely use your money to support the causes I believe in.

If any of that stuff up there bugs you, I’m not the person for you. And that’s ok! But if that all sounds good? If I sound like your kind of person? Well, then I think we can have some fun!

Keep in touch

You can follow me on instagram, join the mailing list, or support my work on patreon.

Looking for an older pattern?

I started writing patterns in 2009 and have written hundreds of patterns and a dozen books since then. But in the summer of 2022, I realized that trying to keep hundreds of patterns up to date (and up to my current standard of pattern writing) was overwhelming. I couldn’t do it and still release new work. So I took my old patterns down so I could keep doing new things.

A few favorites have come back, and lots of new things have come out! But the vast majority of the old patterns are retired and no longer generally available.

However, enough folks have asked about old favorites that I make many of the retired patterns available for a few days twice a year (usually in early summer and around Thanksgiving).

• If you see the buy buttons on a pattern’s page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available!

• If you don’t see the buy buttons on a pattern’s page, then it’s not currently available.

• If you want to hear when the retired patterns are available, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.