In honour of a good friend’s birthday, I wanted to knit her something in her style, unfortunately there aren’t that many goth-inspired blanket patterns around. I do wonder why? Do goths not feel the same cold we do? So I cast a dark spell and sold a bit of my soul, a knitting pattern emerged.

Knitting under a full moon only is ill-advised. Nothing sinister, it’ll just take you way too long to finish it.

The pattern is completely written out in English, but there are additional knitting charts available for the skull specifically.

Level of difficulty: not for the faint of heart, there are quite a lot of different cables.

• Jane James