After the grafting comes the tidying. I graft super super super super super loosely (no, looser than that). That both prevents me from accidentally making my stitches too tight (something that is easy to do when they don't have a needle in there to constrain them) and makes it easy [...]

Grafting is one of those bits of knitting that can look a little like magic if you're not used to it. You take two rows of live stitches, sew them together just the right way, and all of a sudden you can't tell where anything started or ended. It's not [...]

Remember all that coned yarn I got at the thrift shop this summer? Yeeeeeah, so that, combined with the circular knitting machine pulled from the deep depths of the closet, combined with a couple hours with a death grip on my cordless screwdriver (get a velcro strap, it will save [...]

TL;DR for anyone in a hurry: November means (many of) the retired patterns come out of hiding for a few weeks! Anyone who hangs out with me here can use the code NOTHING QUITE LIKE AN OLD FRIEND to take 25% off any of the retired patterns on ravelry or [...]

So right before I got all that wool yarn on cones at the thrift shop earlier this fall (no, like literally five minutes before, same afternoon), I found a wildly different yarn at the other thrift shop (what can I say, Maine has cool thrift shops). This is the opposite [...]

Preorders for the multi tool close Tuesday, October 27! That means that's the last day to order them and be sure they'll arrive in time for Christmas (and the last day to get the preorder bonus gauge card). You can find the preorder (and pretty much everything you might want [...]

The living room smelled like propane this morning, so I called the gas company. And while I waited for them to come see what was going on (and after opening all the windows and turning off the gas at the tank), I figure I'd hang out on the porch and [...]

I can't quite manage to have all of you come over for trick or treating (but just imagine the size of that bowl of candy...), but this seems like the next best thing. Anyone with any level of paid Patreon membership can have the Ensorcellment pattern for free from now [...]

I've talked a lot about the annoying, unreasonable sort of pills that indicate a lousy garment, poorly made (you can see the shoddy Madewell sweater saga over here, should you wish to do such a thing). But some pilling is just part of the life of a sweater. And today [...]