This a set of four animal face motifs: panda, bear, Jack Russell puppy and monkey. At a gauge of 22 stitches to 4 inches, the motif will sit nicely on a 6 inch blanket square.

This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

Last year, I was part of Knit The City and took part in the Nutcracker Knitmare Before Christmas piece. As the Nutcracker features Christmas presents which come to life, I wanted to make something which echoed traditional toys. I decided that the Nutcracker Prince’s soldiers should be brightly coloured toy wooden soldiers. But a bit more textil...

This pattern was born of my need to reverse engineer anything put in front of me. My friend Yusuf showed me a picture of a Burberry cowl he had seen with an unusual cable pattern that he wanted to make – with the slight problem that he couldn’t find an exact match for the cable pattern. An hour or so with some coloured pencils and squeaky acryl...

If you wish to use this pattern to make moustaches for Movember fundraising, that is brilliant and I absolutely give permission, just drop me a line to let me know you’re doing it.

This project takes less than 25g of each of the two main colours and a few yards of the colour required for the telomeres. In addition to the yarn, you will also need 2 pipe cleaners to stabilise the shape of the chromosome.