Maire Martin

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Scarf
Everyone loves a mystery. I found myself browsing through a collection of antique knitting books on archive.org, and realized that these early collected works were much like a mystery pattern - No pictures, and instructions that required a bit of translation to understand.
Knitting: Mittens
Caveat: Chart is complete but instructions are not. (I’m still working on my own knit prototype!). I’m still working out the bugs and very happy to take feedback.
Knitting: Mittens
What more could a Whovian ask for during the winter? Mittens with swirling police boxes, some reoccurring villains to chase, and a sonic widget or two!
Knitting: Mittens, Fingerless Gloves
This is a pattern for stranded mittens and/or handwarmers. They should require 50g or less each of one main colour and one contrast colour. Always err on the side of caution if you think you may not have enough yarn!
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
This design was the exclusive October 1st sock for the 2013 Super Sock Scarefest Group.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
The husbeast has been angling for some time for some fingerless gloves he can wear while out smoking his pipe. We both fell in love with Gandalf’s fingerless gloves from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and after seeing it a second time & looking at pictures on the internet, I came up with these.
Knitting: Mittens
November at my workplace becomes a somewhat surreal experience. Men who normally sport moustaches and goatees will spontaneously shave their faces clean on November 1st. Before you’re really quite aware of what’s going on, you’re surrounded by a variety of moustache styles including the handlebar, the “Magnum PI”, and even the twirled tips of a...
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
“Bluebell, John! I’ve got Bluebell, the case of the vanishing glow-in-the-dark rabbit. NATO’s in an uproar.”
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
“Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, and DON’T blink.”
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
“Twenty-eight days, six minutes, forty-two hours…twelve seconds. That…is when the world will end.”
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find that the original “Monkey” sock by Cookie A. is a quick but attractive knit. The only problem is that there isn’t really any male equivalent…and my guy, at least, does not cotton to the whole concept of lace. Holes in his socks usually mean that something is wrong, not right.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
A major character from the Warcraft series of video games and novels, Medivh is the last of a long line of magical guardians. He was possessed and corrupted at birth, twisting his brilliant mind to evil while still retaining an aspect of good. While he was instrumental in the invasion of the lands he had sworn to protect, he returned after deat...