NIFTY invited me to make some new cat GIFs for them and share my process, and this video is the result! I loved the opportunity to share some behind-the-scenes footage (featuring my super messy basement studio!) and KNIT MORE CATS.
Thank you NIFTY!
Category: Knitted Things
Make your Crumbles an icing mask!
Embroidering an icing mask onto Crumbles is a snap! 😷
I think you can see how easy it is—a stack of wide stitches across the face, and two stitches, top and bottom, that wrap around the head.
For your 2020 keepsake ornaments ✨
Remember to use the code GINGERBREAD to get this pattern for free with $5 purchase! Update: This code expired in January 2021
Share a tiny bit of Thanksgiving
UPDATE: Thanks to your turkey and bluebird pattern purchases in November, we raised $309 for Chicago food pantries last month!
These proceeds went to Common Pantry, an organization helping feed people in our neighborhood, and for Giving Tuesday we matched the total with a donation to North Side Housing and Supporting Services, another neighborhood charity helping alleviate homelessness.
Together we’ve raised $3,049 to help feed Chicagoans so far in this pandemic. Thank you, knitters! Please keep an eye out for future fundraising patterns.
2020 is truly the year of the Tiny Thanksgiving 🦃
So all proceeds from sales of my Tiny Thanksgiving pattern collection this month will go to Chicago area food banks.
Knit your loved ones a tiny turkey or tofurkey, tiny mashed potatoes, tiny cranberry sauce, and tiny pumpkin pie. 🥧 The tofurkey pattern can double as a tiny fruitcake!
This collection originally came out in 2016, right after a big divisive election. I’m still convinced that if anything can bring people together, it’s miniature knitted food.
Tiny Unicorn Pattern Now Available from Knit Picks
Could you use a tiny unicorn right about now? 🦄✨
My tiny unicorn pattern is now available singly as a download for the first time, via Knit Picks!
Bluebird Knit-a-long
UPDATE: There’s now a pattern for Bluebirds of Crappiness! All proceeds from sales will go to Chicago-area food banks.
Do you have 45 minutes? Knit a little bluebird with me!
This is my first time making a KAL video. I hope it’s not too annoying to watch/listen to!
The pattern is coming soon 🎶
Duck Cubes
If you’re like me, you’ve been stocking your freezer more than usual lately. Gotta make those ducks last!
🦆❤️ NO TINY KNITTED DUCKS WEE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO
👉 Storage tip: You can freeze knitted ducks several times over, and they will come out fresher than ever after they’re thoroughly thawed and dried.
Tiny Koalas Here to Help
Thanks to you knitters, we raised $2,333.50 AUD for wildlife rescue in January! The money went to WIRES and Animals Australia 🐨 ❤️ (Thanks to Jenna and Melodye for the tips!)
I hope you’ll also join me in prioritizing the environment in daily life and in politics. That’s our only chance to prevent more of the kind of awful climate disasters like the one that continues in Australia right now.
These tiny koalas made by Instagram knitters pikosew, northridgecottage, porchcatknits, knittedbyviv, omlair, rubyinstitches, ninette.craps, nutmegknitter, and bliss-yarns 💙
If anyone would like to raise funds for Australian wildlife or people affected by fires by selling tiny Koalas made from my pattern (found in my Tiny Mochis 6 Collection), please go ahead!
Hello 2020 and a Tiny Rat Giveaway
Happy Lunar New Year!
It’s the year of the rat, a great reminder to be active, social, and resilient. And if resilient to you means eating your way through a block of cheese and then making it your temporary home, go for it, you beautiful rat!
Through February 13th, take 20% off of all PDF patterns*, books, kits, and needles with the code HELLO2020
Would you like a tiny rat pattern? I’m working on it! For the time being, I’m doing a tiny rat giveaway on Instagram—check out this post and see how to enter.
* Discount does not apply to the Tiny Mochis Collection 6 pattern download, because the proceeds from the sales are going to supporting Australian wildlife relief this month.