New Movie-Knitting Pattern & other Movie Stuff!

I think October is a big month for movies for a lot of people—getting chilly & darker, cozy indoor activities, horror if you’re into that… So I went with a movie theme for October’s zines!

First, this zine about collecting physical movies went out to all paid patreon tiers earlier in the month.

There are eight pen drawings of sets of movies I’ve bought at yard sales, thrift stores, etc, since I got really into collecting a couple of years ago.

And lots of info, tips, notes from my experience to help you out if you want to get into buying physical movies! It’s so fun!

I made a video for how to print/fold this zine since it’s a little more complicated than my previous zines. Again, all Patreon paid tiers got the digital files already (if you sign up now you’ll get it!), and then physical mail tiers will receive a printed copy at the end of the month.

And now today I’ve released a new zine about knitting while watching movies, with a new pattern that I designed specifically to knit while watching movies! (Both at home and in the theater!)

The main cowl section is perfect for knitting in theaters, since it’s just around and around stockinette.

Double Feature (many thanks to Jessica for both editing my text and coming up with that great pattern name idea!!) doubles as both a cowl and a hood, plus the cowl is double-sided since it’s a big tube.

It’s a simple any-gauge pattern with some thoughtful details that would be great for stash-busting. If you make it with sock yarn it would take A LOT of movies! My two samples are worsted and bulky weight.

You can make plain stripes, changing colors with each movie, like I did for my bulky sample (which is several different bulky yarns, but more SpaceCadet Elara than anything else).

Or you can get more creative with stripe patterning, like my worsted sample which has blendy 1×1 stripe segments between each solid stripe. (This sample is Knit Picks High Desert Worsted.)

The pattern only exists within the zine. All knit tier Patreon members have just received it, and you can also buy it on ravelry or payhip.

But that’s the same price as if you sign up for a month of Patreon and if you do that you’ll also get the movie-collecting zine, just sayin! (Plus there are multiple things I’m REALLY excited about coming next month!)

There are two files for the zine: color pages for reading on a screen (basically a mini-ebook), and a black & white pdf to be printed and folded into a zine.

See that video above for how to print/cut/bind the zine—it’s the same exact method, but with each page cut in half instead of into thirds like in the video. (There are also written instructions for how to cut/fold/bind in all the pattern listings.)

I had fun taking photos at magic hour, playing with the sun rays!

Since space was limited with this pattern being in the zine, the technique tutorials are not included in the actual pattern file. Below are all the techniques used (required or optional, or recommended)—I HIGHLY recommend weaving in your ends as you knit to start out each stripe!!

You can also always find all these tutorial jpgs on my tutorials page here. Feel free to download the image files and have them to reference as needed!

The 1×1 rib cable cast-on looks so nice on the hood edge! Almost like a tubular cast-on but easier. Ignore the hood edge on my bulky sample—I messed up while designing on the needles and accidentally knit the purl CO stitches and purled the knit CO stitches, blergh.

I hope you have fun with this pattern and the zine! Oh, one final note: if you knit while watching movies, letterboxd is a great way to keep track. I log all my watches in my letterboxd diary right away before I forget, and I use tags for each of my movie-knitting projects, so I can easily see every movie watched while knitting any project (for example: here are all the movies I watched while knitting that bright, bulky Double Feature). That’s how I listed all the movies watched for the sweaters shown in the zine!