This cozy Christmas Sampler Blanket is the ideal seasonal comforter. A perfect baby blanket or a snuggly throw to curl up under beside the fireplace.

My wife and the love of my life (handy how that worked out), Claire, recently published her first novel, At Last Count. It took her 15 years to write. As someone who took 15 years to knit his own project (check out www.kirkdunn.com re: Stitched Glass and The Knitting Pilgrim – oy), I completely understand. At Last Count features a birdwatcher w...

My partner in writing (and life, and pretty much everything), Claire, and I wrote a play called Spycraft, set in WWII, about a woman who spies for the Allies in occupied France and uses knitting to code secret messages into everyday garments to outwit the Nazis. This sock is my effort to mimic the steganography our heroine used—that is, the hid...

Twilight Forest fingerless gloves evoke the starry sky above a Boreal forest.

This 12” x 16” (30 cm x 40 cm) pillow evokes a weathered Union Jack from the US War of Independence era. It is knit with double strands of worsted weight yarn from Topsy Farms -- a yarn producer local to Loyalist Township just West of Kingston Ontario, so named for the United Empire Loyalists who settled there. Nine different colours are used:

An entry-level intarsia project. Rows of square blocks are ideal for practicing picking up, twisting, and dropping colours.

18” x 18” (46 cm x 46 cm) pillow (Note: the finished pillow measures 16” x 16” square if measured along outside edges. Pillow measures 18” from one edge to the other when measured across the loft of the pillow).