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 your tendons) has resulted in The Longest Scarf In The History Of Scarves (I mean no, not really, but certainly the longest I've ever been involved with). I am in no way able to adequately explain how long this is, especially once I mention that it's actually folded up inside [...]

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 payhip in November (and in case you missed it, anyone on Rampant Nonsense or Notable Nonsense gets all the retired slippers free over on this post). More info for folks with questions: People always have logistics questions about this, so let me try and answer them all at once: Retired [...]

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 of that wool yarn in pretty much every imaginable way (slippery instead of grippy, rayon instead of wool, bright instead of subtle, slinky instead of rustic). None of those are usually things I like in a yarn, and yet the eye searing reddy/pinky/orangey-ness of it all left me absolutely helpless [...]

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 to know about the cards) right over here. And if you want to watch a video of me playing with them, you can see that on either this post on instagram or this post on Patreon (it's a free public post, anyone can see it, it's the same video in [...]

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 mend a tiny little hole in this hat. And I thought I might as well flip on the camera and chat with y'all while I worked. So I did that and posted the video of it over on Patreon (it's a free public post, anyone can see it). There's literally [...]

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 through Halloween! You've totally got time to bang out a whole pile of these before the little ghoulies and ghosties show up on your porch. The pattern is out of retirement and up for sale on both ravelry and payhip as well (the retired patterns generally come back in November, [...]

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 I was tidying up what seemed like completely reasonable case of pills, so it seemed only fair to show what reasonable pilling looks like (if you want to watch me do it and listen while I talk about it, you can see a video over here, it's a public post [...]

The time has come, winter draws near, we must raid the Strategic Cashmere Reserves (aka the pile of sweaters old sweaters that don't fit well at the back of the closet) and cut one down to make this year's pajama sweater. The pinking shears are honestly just because they don't get much use and I want to let them come out and play. The first few times I did this, I thought it would help prevent fraying/unraveling, but I've found over time it doesn't actually make much of a difference and nothing really comes undone, no matter what scissors I [...]