Welcome to Knitvana - your refuge to knitting from daily stress!

The site name - Knitvana - is a combination of words "knit" and "nirvana" and it is the explanation of the main purpose of the site. We want you to enter a happier state of mind by relieving your stress into the art of knitting. Just take a look through our pages and whether you are a beginner or an experienced knitter we hope that this site will help you to find nirvana.

Meet Lizzy

We would like to introduce our mascot - Lizzy the Cow. Lizzy is a knitted tea cozy. She helps us to make a perfect cup of tea and keeps it warm.

Lizzy wants to come to your house and keep your teapot warm. Lizzy feels very lonely. Her knitting pattern is free - so knit a friend for Lizzy and send her a picture!

What's New in Knitvana?

This Knitkinz Bear is a perfect way to give a hug this Valentine Day to your Valentine.

The Bear can sit next to your Valentine in the office. He can keep pens or business cards. Or he can sit and look at computer. This Bear is 6” tall.
The pattern for the Bear Knitkinz Bear - Gift for Your Valentine $2.99.

This Knitkinz Office Monkey can sit next to you in your office. It can keep pens or business cards for you. Or it can sit and look at your computer. When hungry it can east bananas.
This Brown & Yellow Monkey is 6” tall.

The new monkey pattern is available via Ravelry: Knitkinz Monkey for Your Office $4.12

We designed Apple Mousepad and Coaster based on the apple.com picture.
The new pattern is in free 'Apple Mousepad and Coaster.pdf' file on 'Your Beautiful Home' page.

Knitting for Stress Relief

You came home from a long day at work. You are exhausted. You are totally stressed. What's next? You find yourself in front of the freezer reaching for ice cream or you are pouring yourself a glass of wine? Try to pick your needles instead...

Do you want to know how knitting helps people for stress relief? Read about our forum in Ravelry.

What is very helpful for stress relief? Drinking green tea and knitting...

Knitting the Tai Chi symbol - Yin-Yang - works well for stress relief.

If you feel like you don't have enough time to knit - we have some ideas how to find time for knitting.

Knitvana Toys

Knitkinz Cute Animals

Introducing Knitkinz - your knitted fuzzy friends. You can give them unique personalities. You can knit for them clothes and accessories , food and furniture. You can take them with you anywhere. You can give them to people you love.

Knitkinz are cute knitted stuffed animals. They all have the same sized head and body, so any Knitkinz clothes fit them. You can find free patterns for Knitkinz clothes and accessories on this site.

You can give your Knitkinz unique personalities. You can knit for them clothes and accessories, food and furniture.

We have 18 Big Knitkinz animals (14") and 5 Mini Knitkinz animals (7"). You can also knit Knitkinz Furniture and Knitkinz Clothes. Clothes patterns for Knitkinz animal are free. They are on the same websites as animal patterns.

We have patterns for sets of several Knitkinz on Knitkinz page. Our other sets are: Popular Knitkinz - 8 animals and furniture; Jungle Animals (Monkey, Elephant, Tiger and Hippo); House Animals (2 Dogs, 2 Cats and Mouse); Dogs: Tea Cozy and Knitkinz (2 Dogs and Dog Tea Cozy); Knitkinz Bear Family and Fish.

Toy Tea Cozies

Knit these cute tea cozies and you will be tempted to invite your friends for a cup of tea just to demonstrate your tea cozy. These Tea Cozies are like toys.

We have 7 animal Tea Cozy patterns.
* Red Cat Tea Cozy * Dog Tea Cozy * Froggy Tea Cozy * Piggy Tea Cozy * Bear Tea Cozy * Monkey Tea Cozy * Hippo Tea Cozy

Guess which of Animal Tea Cozy patterns is the most popular?

Also we have a very popular Witch Tea Cozy. We also use it as Door Decoration for Halloween.

We have patterns for sets of Animal Tea Cozies and Knitkinz patterns.

Modern Art

How do you come up with knitting ideas? What inspires your projects? It's not always obvious how to answer these questions. But some ideas can easily be traced to their origin.

Knitting helps to develop fine motor skills, which are crucial for intellectual development. In particularly the speech center in the brain is very close to finger center, thus speech is very closely associated to knitting. Knitting also helps to improve concentration and problem solving abilities.

Your Beautiful Home

Do you want to knit something for your home? We have pillow patterns and patterns for Christmas and Easter holidays.
Are you thinking about knitting a gift for your friend? Look at our kitchen patterns.
If you or your child is in Penn State or you are a Penn State alumni, look at the pattern of Penn State Scarf.

Knitting for your KItchen

Do you want to knit something for your kitchen? For kitchen Knitvana has a lot of patterns for tea cozies, pillows, pot holders, placemats, ... Some of these patterns are simple and free, some a complex, but inexpensive at all.

If you want to knit something very simple for tea check our free pattern for Tea Bags Basket