Let your baby’s fingers explore! Knit the textures of a wiggling finger puppet goby, or a sea turtle with a retractable head. These scenes are intended to form one page of a book of ocean textures, but can also be applied separately on blankets, pullovers, bags, cushions, or whatever strikes your fancy.

Erratum note: pattern and chart should read CO 38 sts, not 39.

Let your baby’s fingers explore! Knit the textures of a scaly fish with a flapping tail, or a snake coiling through cabled waves. These scenes are intended to form one page of a book of ocean textures, but can also be applied separately on blankets, pullovers, bags, cushions, or whatever strikes your fancy.

Let your baby’s fingers explore! Knit the textures of an underwater coral landscape, or a cruising shark with protruding fin and movable tail. These scenes are intended to form one page of a book of ocean textures, but can also be applied separately on blankets, pullovers, bags, cushions, or whatever strikes your fancy.

Got the urge to decorate with tentacles? Turn to this charmingly persistent little octopus. He works up quickly, grows arms to your desired length, and takes on a creepily realistic aspect once stuffed and mounted. He will happily attack any surface you’d like to sew him onto—hats, cushions, bags, tea cosies, and more. Only note that he comes w...

Slanting ribbing, interlocking cables, and long cuffs make these mittens both stylish and warm. Customize the overall length to fit each recipient. Use the smaller size is to accommodate older children and adults with slender hands. Enjoy the squooshy fabric and converging lines.

Slanting ribbing and interlocking cables make this winter hat stylish, warm, and elastic enough to fit almost any head size. Wear it helmet-style, with the cables centred over your face…or rotate it to achieve a snug watch-cap effect. It’ll even go on a toddler for a decidedly elfin look.

Knitting on the bias with interlocking cables makes this neck warmer stylish, warm, and customizable to most sizes. Wear it with the cables in front for a v-neck or lapeled look…or rotate it for flaps that fold up to shield your face from winter winds.

There’s nothing new about a wrap-around cardigan with an intarsia guitar design. But if you work the guitar fretboard up a sleeve, suddenly your baby can play air guitar!

Hot water bottle cozies don’t have to feel like granny knitting from the fifties. Unbottle your zany and twisted side with this hot water bottle straitjacket!

Those who live with extremely long hair and cold weather face a yearly conundrum. You just canʼt find a hat that…

Now geeks can get their unsuspecting offspring to a simultaneous and early start in two obsessions: handknits and fantasy fiction. If you’re a fan of The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, you need only check Appendix E of your copy of The Return of the King to confirm that the runes depicted in this chart correspond to the letters ‘B’...

Ponyo is a charming animated childrenʼs film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. The titular character is a little goldfish who, like the Little Mermaid, wants to become a human girl so that she can be with a certain human boy. Along the way, Ponyo is carried around in a bucket and takes a great liking to sliced ham. There is ...

A hot water bottle is an economical and environmentally friendly way to keep your toes or lap warm during cold winter nights. But they’re not exactly classy, are they? Spruce up your hot water bottle with some formal wear—a masculine tuxedo, some feminine lace, or both at once! Next time you throw a party in your bed, your hot water bottle will...

Looking for something exotic and weird, but with a distinguished history? These colourwork charts are based on traditional face-painting designs for certain roles in Beijing opera. Each design is unique to a specific character, with the patterns and colours hinting at that character’s personality to the Chinese audience. Without too much though...

Miffy is a cute little rabbit from my childhood. You also might remember her from the popular series of children’s picture books by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. With her simple lines and expression, she just cries out for knit-representation. Whether you outline her in black embroidery or just leave her in plain intarsia, she’ll look great.

In the wonderfully creepy 2009 animated film Coraline, a young girl gets the help of a black cat to battle long-tailed jumping mice and win a button-ended key that will get her back home. I decided that the cat, mouse and key would make great visual statements in knitting, and would look good even if people didn’t recognize the movie reference.

A hot water bottle is an economical and environmentally friendly way to keep your toes or lap warm during cold winter nights. But who wants a rubbery old thing in his or her bed, even if it is nice and warm? Cover it up with a cuddly platypus cozy—because if there’s anything weirder than a platypus, it’s a platypus in your bed!