My current WIP is a pair of socks for my four-year-old. He loves his handknit socks, and since I'd just finished a pair for his big brother, he wanted some too. Big Brother's socks looked like this:

He had picked out the colours himself, saying they reminded him of the beach. He wanted yellow at the top (for the sun), then the blue and white multi for a sky with white clouds, and then the blue sea, and yellow heels and toes to be the sand.
When it came to Little Brother's choice of colours, he just went for the brightest ones there were! I keep a box of partial skeins of sock yarn specifically for making the boys socks, because they are an ideal project for using up odds and ends like that. I must confess to some raised eyebrows when I saw the combination he had chosen - Wollmeise Raku Regenbogen and Tiefer See - but alternating rounds of each one is making such bright fun socks! The first one is done and he's already nagging me for the second!

The pattern can be found in the archive for May 2015 here on my blog, or as a free pattern on Ravelry, Working Day socks.

I get design inspiration from various sources, from a place, a colour, design challenges, the yarn itself, but often from stitch patterns. I love browsing through stitch dictionaries both online and in book form, and my next designs to be released will be ones inspired by a stitch pattern I saw in one of them.
The stitch in question looks like a leaf, or like a flame, and it was the flame that caught my imagination.
​Worked as a single motif it looks like this:

As soon as I saw the black and white photograph in one of my stitch dictionaries I knew it had to be in red. Charting it was tricky (the stitch count varies from row to row, meaning a lot of "no stitch" squares are needed) and the original instructions I found were in written form only.
Next month I plan to release a collection of three related accessories featuring this stitch pattern. Keep an eye out for them - I hope they spark ​your imagination!

My latest pattern just went live on Ravelry, and I'm really pleased with this one. The simplicity of the stitch pattern means it works well with solid or semi-solid coloured yarns as well as with more colourful ones like the Fyberspates Sparkle Sock that I made my own pair with.
The name for the design came from the circumstances that influenced the socks. A few months ago I had a weekend away with friends, flying with hand baggage only, so I needed a knitting project that was small enough to pop in my purse, simple enough not to need to worry about losing a printed pattern, and that didn't require anything sharp enough that would get confiscated by airport security. I also wanted to use this particular yarn as it was one I'd been saving for socks for myself and I wanted the socks as a memory of a fun weekend away with knitting friends. All those aspects came together to make In-Flight Entertainment - socks with an easily memorised stitch pattern, ideal for travel knitting, enough to keep me occupied on the trip but easy to pick up and put down or to work while chatting, and not needing cable needles or anything not aircraft-friendly, and that would allow my special skein of yarn to shine. (I mean that last one figuratively and literally, the yarn has a gorgeous sparkle!)
If you'd like to buy this pattern, or any of my other knitting designs, you can find  the patterns in my Ravelry store.