Blocked
I truly believe that just about everything you knit will benefit from blocking. And yes, yes this totally includes tiny things. The tiny things block pretty much the same way as bigger things (just faster), but there is enough confusion out there over how to block stuff in general that it's worth taking a bit of time to talk about. I'm more or less obligated to start any discussion of blocking with a disclaimer right up top that says blocking doesn't always involve stretching/pinning. Sometimes it does, most of the time, especially for small stuff, it does not. So I'll break this [...]
Fluke
These only exist because the hearts were so much fun. Well, that, and I wanted to see if I could make them with absolutely no seaming, no picking up stitches, and only two ends to weave in (the answer was yes, yes I could, which is just darn nifty). Seriously though, the hearts were so much fun (and so popular with you folks) that I wanted to see what other sorts of tiny nonsense you'd let me get away with. Because really, there was every chance that the hearts were a fluke and only popular because I managed to bring [...]
Stuffed
A lot of my patterns are for tiny things that need to be stuffed before they're finished. I've tried a lot of different materials over the years, and I've talked a bit about how I stuff things in individual patterns. But I wanted to put everything in one place so it's easy to point folks to if they have questions. Plastic Pellets Plastic pellets are my very favorite way to fill tiny things. I got a big bag of the weighted pellets and have filled an astonishing number of projects from it. They give my knits a heft I really [...]
Besotted
This was the very first bit of tiny nonsense I ever knit. Everything before this had been at least a little bit practical. But this? This was unabashedly ridiculous. It was also just what I needed. Because you see, I was having a bad time when I knit the first of these. I’d broken my leg. I couldn’t get comfortable to knit for more than twenty minutes at a time. Everything felt impossible. So I knit these. I knit piles and piles and piles of these sweet, silly little distractions. I almost didn’t write a pattern, because I truly wasn’t [...]
Wrap up
I wanted to do a little wrap up/what comes next post, now that the sale is over and the patterns are down. This is the slightly longer/link infested version of the post over here on instagram and twitter (because dammit, I'm wordy, and those both have character/formatting limitations that I smash right into on a regular basis). 1) All the patterns are down! Some time later this year* six will come back. A few others may appear from time to time, but generally speaking, they're staying gone. I don't ever intend to go back to having hundreds of patterns available. [...]
And down!
And with that, the ravelry and payhip shops are down! For the first time since April of 2009, I don't have anything anywhere for anyone to buy directly from me. At least I don't think I do. It's possible I missed something (fourteen years of work in the form of hundreds of patterns across several sites gets a bit...unwieldy to ever say anything definite about). And I'll be on the lookout for those over the coming weeks. But I *think* everything is down. I'll do a big wrap up/what comes next post in a few days. The short version is [...]
Which Six
I have a plan! Monday morning, I start taking patterns down. Some time in September, six will return. It will take me few days to get them all down (I need to do it in a tidy fashion, both so the ravelry pages aren't a mess and so I don't lose any information), but I expect to have them all down by midweek. But by the end of the week, I won't have anything at all for sale on ravelry or payhip. In August,* I'll spend a little bit of time introducing the six patterns that are coming back and [...]
Options
This morning I got up, sat down at my computer, looked at what you all had done overnight, & made a $10,000.00 donation to MaineTransNet, a community based organization supporting trans people in Maine. You made that happen. You are amazing. I truly wasn't expecting this. I figured I'd do a sale to build up a little buffer as I made these changes to my business. But the response has been overwhelming. You folks made me feel safe. You've given me more options. Your support means I have the time and space I need for what comes next. It seems [...]
Let’s fix it
Is there a pattern you'll miss but didn't buy because there's no room in the budget? Not even if it's on sale? Not even if it's going away? Because if so, I want to fix that. Well, I can't fix the stuff that's making everything so hard right now. But I can provide a bit of tiny nonsense as a distraction. If there's something you really wish you could get before it goes away, but it just isn't in the budget, you can have it. The code TINY NONSENSE will let you get any single item from my shop for [...]
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