Shoreland preorder schedule
I'm a big fan of keeping preorders short and sweet...so let's see how much I can streamline this! Tuesday, November 19, noon Eastern time: Preorder opens for folks on my mailing list (I'll send you an email with links to where you can buy either the paper or the electronic book). You'll get the best price of the preorder ($3.00 off either the paper book or the ebook). This price only lasts an hour, so grab it quick! The first 300 folks to order the paper book on November 19 will get a little present in their packages. I expect these [...]
Shoreland Q&A
So...ready for the next book? Shoreland is coming out next week (preorder opens November 19). I'll explain all the details of the preorder in another post tomorrow, but today I wanted to answer questions about the book itself. Let me see if I can guess what some of them are! - What's in the book? Seven shiny new sock patterns! Each one is written in 3 or 4 stitch counts with sizing information given for working in both fingering and dk weight yarn (because wow do I love thick socks). They're all top down (because that's how I like to [...]
Needled
Needled is out, it's 10% off with the code EVERGREEN for the next few days, and you've totally got time to knit a whole forest before the holidays. Because I suspect that once you've knit one, you'll want to knit more. I know I certainly did. I made some with trunks (those lend themselves to hanging from your christmas tree) and some without (those stand up beautifully all on their own). I made some with beads (you can place them in tidy, regimented lines like I did or go for something a bit more free form) and some with a [...]
Pinterest (and the incompetent scoundrels it attracts)
Last week a few folks reached out out to me to let me know that someone on pinterest was using my photos. Not just using my photos, but using my photos to promote a totally different pattern. I did a bit of investigating, and yes, yes indeed someone was doing that. Check this out. That's screenshots of four different pins all from one very shady account. And the thing that gets me is that they didn't just steal my photos. They stole photos from two different blog posts (this one and this one). They combined those stolen photos into a [...]
All shaping up rather nicely
So you block it (yes, even the tiny things, yes, every time, yes, it matters). Then you stuff it. And stuffing it feels rather like wrestling with a drunk octopus. But with sufficient time and fiddling, it starts to take shape. And a bit later its actually starts to look like a tree. Well...a knitted tree. I realize it's not going to fool anyone into thinking it's a real tree (especially with the whole purple thing). But as far as knitted trees go, I'm rather smitten! Pattern coming soon (think next week)...do the mailing list thing if you want to [...]
In the deep dark woods
Tiny things always look weird when you first start knitting. Always. Every single time. The trick is to not freak out and just keep going. Since they're tiny, if you put in even a few more minutes of work, things will start to make a bit more sense. Not that they won't still look weird...this one looks a bit like a space ship in the middle there! But they will start to make sense. Plus, if you play your cards just right, you can distract yourself from the weird by admiring how nice your yarn and needles look together. This [...]
The tiny, nifty bits
So look...electronic books are great. They're super portable. They take up no space on your shelf. They don't require anyone to cut down trees or put anything on a truck and get it to your front door. They absolutely have their advantages. And I will never ever ever have any complaints about folks who like electronic books best. But paper books have my heart. They're what my brain thinks of when it hears the word book. They feel solid and real and permanent in a way electronic books just don't for me. I love to surround myself with them, whether that's [...]
High cuteness potential
Sometimes you start fiddling around with some yarn and, while you realize that the specific little yarn doodle you've got on the needles isn't going to be the actual finished project, you can tell it has high cuteness potential. Very high cuteness potential. The sort of cuteness potential where you feel the urge to immediately investigate your scraps bin and see what sort of a pile of potential you might be able to pull together.
Magic tricks
It seems only fair for a mushroom to know a magic trick or two, right? And one of my favorite tricks with these is that you can get them to stand up properly...as long as you're willing to do a bit of magic of your own. Now, the ones with nice chunky stems will just sort of stand up without any extra fiddling. Especially if you slip a coin or a washer in the bottom to make it nice and flat. But...you can do a few things to further stack the odds in your favor. The more weight you can [...]
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