This is your reminder that, one next week, I'll be sending the mailing list info on how to get the mitts for free if you've knit the matching hat!⁠ ⁠ All the details are over here, but the short version works like this. When I write to the mailing list to let them know the mitts are out, I'll have a link in that email to a little form you can fill out.⁠ If you fill out that form with your email address and a link to where you shared a picture of your hat on either ravelry or instagram, [...]

I'm firmly in the 'more ideas than motivation' stage of things right now. ⁠ ⁠Which is both super fun...⁠Because running around going '*I* *have* *an* *IDEEEEAAAAA*' is really kind of delightful!⁠ And super damn overwhelming...Because I know each of these ideas could turn into something amazing if only I had the energy, organizational skills, and general drive to do the massive amount of work that stands between idea and a really cool finished project. But wow do I have more ideas than I do focus.⁠ So for now, for now I'm fiddling around with a whole bunch of different things, [...]

My brain is doing the thing. The thing where it finds a little nugget of an idea and then spins around with it for a while like a tiny little cyclone and nothing else happens for a while until either the idea plays itself out or something else comes along to distract me. And sometimes this is fun! This is how literally every big project I've ever done has started! The whirring feeling of I Have An IDEA is really quite delicious. And sometimes it's annoying as hell and I cannot get any actual work done until the idea sputters [...]

First things first, this hat is out today. It's called Decorum. And you can take 10% off with the code WELL BEHAVED. Now, for the fun bits! You absolutely do not have to wear it with the points up. You can, in fact, tuck those points in with two fingers and about five seconds of fiddling. And I will totally also show you how it looks with the points tucked in (all sculptural and smooth and like something a respectable grownup would wear)! But I? Well I fear I may be inclined to wear it with the points out. Because [...]

Pattern delayed on account of 'it feels weird to Do A Capitalism while World War III breaks out.' So let's talk about that. Here's the deal. I am Really Damn Lucky that I can afford to say 'I don't feel great shouting about a hat today, let's wait a bit.' A whole bunch of people in this industry depend on new patterns (or yarns, or books, or other projects) to pay the rent & buy groceries & keep the heat on. I do too! But I'm lucky to have enough of a buffer that I can delay in response to [...]