Ok, as promised, here's the front side of the hat. The hat which recall you are not to get too attached to because the yarn went and did something dastardly to me. And yeah, we'll talk about what that was at some point!⁠ But it took it's sweet time revealing its nefarious intentions to me (aka after I did a whole bunch of knitting and took a whole bunch of photos). And, so as not to completely waste all that time and effort, I have decided to bring you along for the whole ride.⁠ In part because I have to [...]

I’m trying to get in the habit of doing a little housekeeping post once a month. The theory is that it will give me a place to run down what’s going away, what’s coming next, and what’s in progress. Plus show off a little non-knitting something or other because we cannot live on yarn alone. This month that's floral syrups. Because the tree in my front yard has exploded and I am duty bound to capture all the joy of the first spring flowers so I can remember it as long as possible. If you want to see how I [...]

Should I be this amused with this thumb? Nope. Am I? Yup. Do I secretly suspect some of you share this character flaw? I mean honestly, at this point I assume you wouldn't be here if you didn't... Someone please tell me that nifty thumbs are to mitts as spiffy crowns are to hats so I feel less alone? Because really, that's the only explanation that makes sense! The mitts (and the hats from the last few days) are Decorum & Comportment and are in all the usual places!

Every month I write a post saying "abortions are good!" and send a donation to Aid Access to support their work providing abortion pills to people who need them.⁠ This month I also ordered some abortion pills both to have on hand in case I ever need them and so I could show you what buying them looks like (go here for the first part of that). Buying pills is a little different than buying most things online, and I wanted to make sure no one got scared off if the process seemed a little strange, so I figured I'd [...]

Far be it from me to tell you how you should wear your hat. You are much better able than I to decide if any particular day is going to be easier with the points out or points in.⁠ I find both quite charming! Points in (below) does this delightful, almost sculptural thing with curves and shadows. Points out (above) makes it clear to everyone in range that I'm ok being a bit of a weirdo (in case the neon hair didn't do that already).⁠ Do you like one better than the other? Or will you swap them around as [...]

Are you feeling well behaved? Decorum & Comportment are back on both ravelry and payhip!⁠ Well, as patterns. Not so much as personal traits. I suspect we're all going to need to be significantly more indecorous over the coming months and years. But if we're going to get up to trouble, we can at least look cute while we're doing it. These should do the trick!⁠ The set has patterns for both the hat and mitts (they are only available as a set, not individually). You can take 15% off with the code TROUBLE for the first few days the [...]

One more shot of the inside of The Hat That Was Not Destined For Greatness. ⁠ I'll show you the outside here shortly (and eventually explain why the replacement for it is currently on the needles in a different yarn). But first? First we've got some old friends to welcome back.

Yup, more of the hat (the hat which you are not to get too attached to because as previously mentioned, this is a tale of woe and does not have a happy ending...yet). This is the inside/wrong side of the fabric. And if you'd shown it to me and asked me how to make a fabric like this, I would have just sort of blinked at you and said 'uuuuuuummmmmmmm...' and stared for a while. Because I for sure did not expect it to do this! But it is rather nifty...and we will talk about it more (and see the [...]

Everything is (as always barring unspeakable personal or general catastrophe) all set for these to make their reappearance early next week! If you want to help make them available to folks who might not have room in the budget for little luxuries right now, check out the Community Supported Pattern program. This will be the first set of patterns I've brought back since I took my patterns away last summer. In the past, patterns in sets like this were generally available either individually at the regular price or together at a discount. But making that happen meant multiple pattern files, [...]