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This fortnight's panels are Piano Monster and Hug Me. They're both a reminder to focus on the things that bring joy. It's surprisingly easy to spend more time looking at what's wrong with the world than appreciating what's right in front of us. A quick check of social media can easily turn into half an hour of doom scrolling, and somehow you come away feeling worse than when you started. Half term has been a timely reminder of the importance of choosing joy. We've had a glori

This fortnight’s panel feels especially personal. Love Music. Not because I craft with playlists in the background, funnily enough I usually prefer the quiet or talk radio when I’m knitting or crocheting, but because music has always been a huge part of who I am. Alongside yarn and creativity, singing has been one of my greatest constants. This week, my crafting time has been split between the Kindness Cardi and Burton’s Bollards, with a growing pile of little crocheted heart

Well… life got in the way last week. Studio deadlines, project launches, community art, giant dogs, giant dragons, the usual. So instead of forcing a blog update for the sake of keeping up, I gave myself a little grace and picked things back up this week. And honestly, the next two panels feel like exactly the right ones to return with. Safe Space is outward facing. It’s an intentional signal to others. A reminder that kindness is not passive, it’s something we actively creat

Hello lovely knitters! Week 16 has given us two panels that feel quietly powerful, but in very different ways. Read Banned Books came with one of those brilliant, baffling conversations with my youngest. She simply could not understand why any book would be banned in the first place. Same babe. Same. It’s a reminder that curiosity, questioning and access to stories should never be taken for granted. Books open doors, and sometimes the ones that get challenged are exactly the

Hello lovely knitters! Week 15 brings two panels with very different energies: Integrity and Bee Kind . Integrity is inspired by the Artemis II mission. We stayed up until 3am to watch the splashdown, briefly waking eldest so he could see it too. Bleary-eyed but thrilled, he lasted about an hour before heading back to bed, while we stayed to watch the astronauts emerge from the module. Following their journey has been such a joy, a genuinely uplifting reminder of what peopl

Hello lovely knitters! We’ve been off on our canal boat for the start of the Easter holidays — completely lovely, slightly less helpful for internet signal — so this week is a double catch-up. The two panels are Do It and the flower panel. Do It is exactly what it sounds like. A nudge to stop circling and start. The thing you’ve been putting off, overthinking, waiting for the right moment on — this is it. Start messy. Start small. Just… do it. The flower panel is a little c

Hello lovely knitters, This week’s panels feel like they’re speaking to each other. Live Long and Prosper is a small but mighty nod to Star Trek — and to a future that imagines something better. A world where we’ve moved past war, hunger and inequality. It might be fiction, but it’s a vision worth holding onto (and stitching into existence, one panel at a time). Alongside it, More Love keeps things simple. No big explanation needed. Behind the scenes, I’ve also been figurin

Hello my lovely knitters! This week’s panel is Ban the Bomb. The Ban the Bomb symbol has been around since 1958, created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It’s one of the most recognisable protest symbols in the world — simple, clear and impossible to mistake. Knitting it gave me time to think about that. People often say knitting isn’t political. And for many it might not be. It’s yarn, patience, and the steady building of something stitch by stitch. A very human act

Hello lovely knitters, Last week I took a small pause from the Kindness Cardi. Sometimes life needs a little breathing space, and slow crafts are very good at reminding us that not everything has to happen at speed. So this week we’re catching up with two weeks of panels. Bunny Love This one is a tribute to my constant studio companion, Marshall the house rabbit. He supervises knitting, inspects yarn balls and generally behaves like he owns the place (which, if we’re honest,

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