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Week 8 of the Kindness Cardi and I have about as much energy as you’d expect after half term week. Kids at home. Trying to be Fun Mum. Trying to work. Trying to keep all the plates spinning. So this blog is brief. Because that’s all I have in me right now. And I’m choosing to be kind to myself too. This week’s panels: Riots Not Diets Hi Sometimes that’s enough. Being exhausted from life is allowed.

Hello lovely knitters, Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Hearts everywhere, and I wanted to jump on the bandwagon! This week I’m releasing two new Kindness Cardi panels: Hug My Heart Love the Earth Hug My Heart is about connection. The real, arms-wrapped-round-someone, I’ve-got-you kind of love. Love the Earth feels just as urgent. Loving the earth isn’t a slogan. It’s action. It’s harvesting yarn from old jumpers instead of buying new. It’s making something lasting out of what

This week’s trio came together around a simple but not-always-easy idea: kindness isn’t passive. Sometimes it comforts. Sometimes it challenges. Sometimes it makes people shift in their seats. Mistakes Make Me A reminder that we are not the polished end product, but the work in progress. Every dropped stitch, every wrong turn, every “well, that didn’t go to plan” moment becomes part of the fabric. Mistakes don’t undo us. They shape us. They add texture, depth, story. This pan

This week’s Kindness Cardi panels are all about something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: the power of small, positive actions. Not the grand gestures. Not the headline-grabbing moments. Just the quiet, everyday choices that gently nudge the world in a better direction. Recently, I shared a little video of me harvesting yarn from an old jumper. Carefully unpicking the seams, winding the wool into neat new balls, giving something worn and forgotten a second life. It was

Hello lovely knitters, Today I’m releasing three more Kindness Cardi panels, and I’m really excited to finally share them with you. You’ll see them coming to life in the video alongside this post — from sketchbook to stitches, with plenty of unpicking, reworking, and cups of coffee along the way. As always, this project isn’t about perfection. It’s about process, patience, and taking a little time out of busy life to make something thoughtful with our hands. This week’s panel

This weekend I took a little breather. We were away on the boat with the family – a much-needed mini getaway after a long and pretty intense stretch of work. This was after a lovely session of knitting in a local cafe. I usually frequent a good independent coffee shop but the masses were out in force in my local town so I ended up in Costa. Not my fave coffee, but I didn’t have the heart to mention this when Costa Coffee commented on my socials! Hahahah (whoops!) But I’ll be

This week I’m releasing three designs together: ‘Difference makes us stronger’ ‘Love is love’ ‘Free hugs’ They’ve come straight from my heart, in response to everything happening in the world right now. The noise. The division. The fear. And also the quiet bravery of people just trying to live their lives. So let me be clear. I am against racism. I am against homophobia. I stand with marginalised communities. And I will always choose kindness over hate. These panels are about

Week 1 and we’re starting with the socialist fist. Each of the Kindness Cardi panels will require 36 stitches and 48 rows. This will work up into a square when slightly stretched. I’ve got a fancy blocking board for this but you don’t need one. More about that in future months!! When reading the patterns, these are just colourwork patterns. You’ll need to know how to cast on, knit, purl, change colours and cast off. YouTube is a beautiful thing, there are plenty of tutorials

Hello, I’m Tilley. I’m an avid knitter, and many moons ago I was even a published designer. In 2026, I want to use my beloved craft to do something thoughtful and intentional. The Kindness Cardi is a year-long knitting project made up of small panels, released weekly. Each panel represents an idea – political, environmental, spiritual or personal. Some are text, some are images. You can knit one, a few, or all of them. Over the year, the panels come together to form a single