New Patterns: Small Coats & Cardigans

Hello, I hope you are having a good week, here the sun is shining and it feels warm out there today. Yesterday Toby and I walked in our T shirts for for the first time this year and there were definite signs of the beginnings of Spring. I’ll give you an update on Katsue the fox soon but she’s doing well and things are looking hopeful.

I’m popping in here today because I have a new pattern for clothing to fit any of my 7 inch (18cm) tall animals (there is already a coats and cardigans pattern to fit my 9 inch animals).

This new pattern has 3 basic cardigan/jacket/coat shapes:

• a short waist length cardigan/jacket,
• a short waist length V neck cardigan
• and a longer length ‘A’ line coat

The short cardigan/jacket and the longer ‘A’ line coat can both be made with either a round neckline, a little ribbed collar or a hood. The hood will fit over the head of the animals with smaller ears such as the mouse and bear and for the animals with taller ears, such as the rabbit, it looks nice just folded at the back and I’ve designed it with a curved bottom edge when it’s worn in this way.

As always the patterns are available on Ravelry and Etsy and I’ll hopefully be adding them to Lovecrafts later in the week. I think Lucylocketland may soon have some of her sweet kits that include yarn and a printed copy of the pattern and if your local yarn shop is signed up to the Ravelry local yarn shop service then you can buy a copy from them and ask them to print it off for you.

Please remember that the above listed places are the only legitimate places that you can obtain copies of my patterns. In the last year pattern piracy has become a lot more common and me and my fellow pattern designers are noticing the impact, please don’t support theft and pattern piracy by either uploading or downloading copies of patterns to/from websites that offer them in exchange for tokens.

Please also be extremely wary of the masses of AI generated images and videos that are now on facebook and other parts of the internet, these feature amazing looking ‘knitted toys’ and promise free patterns so you can make them. I know it can be hard to understand how something that looks so very real and beautiful does not actually exist, but the lovely looking AI generated images are merely bait to entice the unsuspecting to follow a link to a dodgy website (‘knitbangkokbikethailandchallenge’ for instance* see note below) or a link to buff.ly with the true web location hidden behind it. By following such links you will either risk picking up malware, or have to scroll past masses of adverts (which make the website owners money), in order to obtain an AI written pattern which does not work out and bears no relation to the fake AI image that was pictured.

*If in doubt about any facebook page you can look at the ‘transparency and privacy policy’ for that page by clicking on the page name. This brings up an info box that tells you how long the page has been active, what previous names the page has had and who manages it. The facebook page daily knitting ideas, which is completely full of AI generated images and links to the knitbangkokbikethailandchallenge website, lists NY, USA as their location (the address they give is actually a hotel), but is run by 7 people in Vietnam.

Stay smart and thank you so much for supporting independent human designers and allowing us to make a small living from our own work , J xxx