Penguins look like they’re having so much fun! They waddle down to the water and then they jump in, one penguin after another. The birds that walk so laboriously on land are so agile and graceful in the water!

This is a double-knit square, approximately 12” x 12”. It makes a nice large potholder or a good-sized afghan square. It is part of the Epic Lap Blanket Series.

Heads or tails? No need for a coin. You have the Buffalo Nickel square. When I was growing up you sometimes found one of these in circulation, if you were lucky. This coin honored the first Americans, the natives and the buffalo that were so important to them here in the west.

Now whenever CNN brings you a Breaking News story, you don’t have to run to your atlas. Not only will this map keep you up-to-date on current events---but it goes one better: it has fiber! Let’s salute our Home Planet and show how much we appreciate its beauty, and its wonderful fibers. It’s been so good to us and we need to take care of it.

It’s summer, which makes it a great time for Road Trip USA. This is dedicated to all the wonderful things that make a trip across the USA so much fun: crawfish in Louisiana, giant carrots at the Alaska State Fair, peering over the rim at Grand Canyon, dinosaur footprints in Utah, the Presidents on Mount Rushmore, unique yarn shops in all fifty ...

The ancient Egyptian god Horus was the god of kingship. He was often shown with the head of a falcon or in the shape of a falcon, according to Wikipedia. He is shown carrying the ankh, also known as the key of life.

A fearsome stegosaurus wanders the earth before knitting was invented. There was no one around to capture his stranded image. But that’s OK, because now we have a knitted stegosaurus to make into a blanket square or potholder.

Can you imagine this magnificent bird sitting atop a totem pole? This bird of prey has powerful talons, and has just had a successful hunt---a salmon is in its belly.

This is a double-knit square, approximately 12” x 12”. It makes a nice large potholder or a good-sized afghan square. It is part of the Epic Lap Blanket Series. A peacock sits on an ornate garden wall. Are there really so many dragon flies, or does it just seem like it? Some of the motifs began as very old cross-stitch patterns from France and ...

This is a double-knit square, approximately 12” x 12”. It can be used as a potholder or as an afghan square. The seahorse motif is from Tori Seierstad’s “Selbuvott or not” alias Selbu Sea Horse Mittens, and is used in this design with her gracious permission. The pattern is charted, and requires the ability to double-knit back and forth rows, d...

This is a double-knit square, approximately 12” x 12”. It can be used as a potholder or as an afghan square, or for anything that you want a penguin motif. The pattern is charted, and requires the ability to double-knit back and forth rows, do a closed selvedge, read a chart, cast on and bind off. No increasing or decreasing is required.