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Little Ghosts Free Washcloth Pattern
Perhaps in part because I got really into the show Ghosts this year (it started with the US version then I discovered I could watch the UK version on CBC Gem), I got some fall/spooky season/Halloween inspo for a washcloth to add to my collection of Halloween washcloths (Broomsticks, Pumpkin Patch, and Candy Corn). While I’ve had various ideas come to me since I last posted many, many months ago, the timing worked out this time for me to act on the inspiration to pick up my needles and make this washcloth, and then to do the equally time consuming part of writing everything up and posting! I hope you…
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Prickly Pear Cactus Washcloth Knitting Pattern
Free knitting pattern for the Prickly Pear Cactus washcloth.
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Tools Washcloth Pattern
This third pattern for my December-release washcloths was a specific request by my friend for her husband. And I think it might be my favourite from this “collection” (including the F1 Racecar washcloth & Running Shoe Washcloth). The washcloth includes a measuring tape, hammer, and screwdriver. When I finished it I sent my friend a message that said “I feel like this is a weird thing to say, but that hammer turned out really cute!” Really, who ever heard of a cute hammer? Scroll down for the FREE pattern, or get the printable PDF for $2. This washcloth is definitely reversible and unlike the other 2 washcloths in the collection,…
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F1 Racecar Washcloth
Another of the knit washcloths I designed for my friend for Christmas is an F1 racecar. This turned out to be one of the more challenging designs I’ve done because the size of knit stitches in dishcloth cotton is rather large, and current F1 cars are highly detailed and refined. This particular car is my rough depiction of the 2019 Ferrari F1, but when I asked my friend who works for Ferrari if he knew what it was, he did say it was a Ferrari…just a much older version than the one I was aiming for… I actually originally abandoned this design because the shape seemed incompatible with a knit…
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Running Shoe Washcloth Pattern
It is a great honor when someone loves the things you knit. And my friend and her husband are probably the biggest fans of my washcloths that I have. So for Christmas I came up with 3 new designs, specifically for him! Obviously these could be enjoyed by anyone of course, they just happen to be his interests! This pattern has one running shoe, slightly inspired by a free t-shirt I received for volunteering (with work) at a water station at one of the Stampede related runs that occur in Calgary every year. The colour even ended up being pretty much the same as that shirt. While like most of…
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Three Vines Headband
I originally had the idea for this headband over a year ago. But sometimes when you have ideas, that doesn’t mean you know how to turn that idea into something real. While I had thought I knew how to do this, the more I thought about it the more I realized I had no clue! So between this, and not really having time during the school year, it remained a sketch in my notebook. It was only after I had finished my Ripplebutt Shorts that I had an ah-ha moment – I could do the top, most visible, part of this headband with i-cords! I-cords are really not a difficult…
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Tree-rrific Christmas Stocking
Scroll down for the FREE pattern, or get the inexpensive ad-free PDF in my shop! I’d had a vague idea for a stocking for a few months, but wasn’t sure I would get to it this year. Then last month when I was visiting my best friend we were talking about stockings with her husband, and how their about-to-be-born baby didn’t have one yet. Both of them have stockings that were made for them and I offered to make one for the new baby! The dad-to-be requested that it be green, which immediately put a variation on this design in my head. That one didn’t quite work out, but it…
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Free Pattern: Avocado Washcloth
Like my Pineapple Washcloths, this one is inspired by a food I cannot eat. Avocado became the 3rd fruit that my body decided it hated, probably at the worst time as avocado has done nothing but climb in popularity since then. Why is there so much avocado in sushi? Especially vegetarian sushi? I was actually really, really surprised that there wasn’t already a knit avocado washcloth like this in existence on Ravelry. Once I realized that, I mapped out the pattern right away, but then took 2 months to actually make it. That’s what happens during summer vacation I guess. While I have knit on the lake, I have yet…
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Free Pattern: Bitty Knit Headband
I needed to do something different for the blog, something other than washcloths. I’m not saying I’m done with those, I just needed some variety. The other thing I needed was something to do with the many little balls of yarn I have left over from miscellaneous projects. I think we all have a lot of scrap yarn lying around. So the Bitty Knit Headband needed to be made. Bitty means “made up of or containing bits” (Merriam-Webster) so it seemed a good name for this headband! After finishing my Fairy Dust socks I was still on the fence about lace. There are so many different lace stitches and motifs…
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Free Pattern: Cowboy Boot Washcloth
The Calgary Stampede is one of my favourite things about my city. I know there are a lot of Calgarians that don’t like it because there are some rather negative behavioural things that pop up during this time. However I have been largely blind to most of them over my 32 Stampedes, so I love it. I love going to the Stampede and seeing the animals, and learning about agriculture, and eating deep fried foods. I also love the clothing, the “Get Your Head in a Hat” campaign a number of years ago was one of my favourites! With all this love I have for Stampede, it actually hadn’t struck…
