I'm going to do something unusual and show you the inside of this for a few posts. Because when I show you the outside, a whole bunch of you will know what's going on. But I think just showing the inside might let me maintain an air of mystery for at least a bit longer. And I am a middle aged knitter who works alone, from home, in my pajamas. Opportunities for mystery are few and far between and must be seized whenever they present themselves.

Oh, oh this is getting ever closer to done.⁠ This is that little...needlebook? toolcase? (I'm not honestly sure they have an agreed upon name?) that I've been playing with for a bit. ⁠(You can watch a video of it where I open and close it and talk about what's going on over on instagram.) I'm far enough along in prototyping this that it was time to load it up and see what to tweak next. And it's not quite done just yet, but it's close enough that I can tell I'm going to love it!⁠ My general plan for this [...]

This? This is a picture of incipient heartbreak and woe and a good hat gone bad. I tell you this at the outset so you don't get too invested. But since I had to go on this benighted adventure (and since I did all this knitting and took all these pictures before the problem with this project became apparent), I figure I might as well bring you along on it too. Because things *were* awfully promising at the start! Alas, that will change... P.S. The yarn turned out to be the source of the problems, so I won't be naming [...]

This teeny tiny little corner? This wee pointy bit? Fairly unassuming in this state I know, but when you put it on something round (like, just for example, your head)...it does something rather nifty.⁠ Keep an eye out next week for a returning friend. I admit I'm rather looking forward to it!

Today seems like a great day to order some abortion pills online to have on hand in case you need them later. While you still can. I did it last year. I'm doing it again right now. And I wanted to talk you through it, because it can feel a little scary. This is a companion blog post to this instagram post (because you can't have a bunch of links on an instagram post, and because time limits on videos over there can make it hard to read everything on screenshots as they go by). So, to order abortion pills, [...]

I've figured out how we can bring back some old friends! Read on for details.⁠ ⁠ As a quick reminder, last summer I took down all my patterns.⁠ ⁠ I did this in part because I'd gotten better at writing patterns over the years and wasn't happy with the earlier patterns. (Side note, this used to really bug me! Why wasn't I perfect from the beginning? How dare I get better over time? Somewhere along the way I got comfortable saying 'you get better at things with practice, it'd be weird if you didn't, don't waste time being mean to [...]

Yeah...so...this is what happens when my brain says 'I mean, it should be *possible* do three color brioche, right?' ⁠ You'll note my brain did not say 'it will be easy to do three color brioche' (it was not). ⁠ Nor did it say 'it will be fun to do three color brioche' (nope, not at all, it was very swear inducing).⁠ Nor did it say 'it will be pretty to do three color brioche' (it is not currently super pretty, but it could be with some more persuasion).⁠ But it is...possible.⁠ Which means I might play with it more [...]

Remember the cute little embroidery stitch? And how everyone wanted to know if you could run it up the sleeve of a sweater? And I kept saying yes, yes of course you can!⁠ Well I went ahead and did it. And I'm kind of smitten! You can watch me try (and mostly fail) to film my own sleeve while wearing a sweater on instagram, should you be so inclined. And should you be possessed by the urge to do something similar to your very own sweater, you know what to do. Now, any bets on how long before I can [...]

You know that thing where you get an idea, and it won't leave you alone, and then you find yourself surrounded by a heap of scraps and bits of thread and crumples of paper and snippets of fabric and cryptic notes and mugs of cold tea and possibly tear-stained tissues and/or a cloud of profanity depending on your temperament?⁠ And then you finally get a prototype that demonstrates that your initial idea was not entirely devoid of merit and perhaps you are not actually fundamentally incompetent and doomed to failure in all your endeavors, and you can finally take a [...]