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 [...]

Did I take the wee little hatchlings out to the woods with me the last time I was out and about? Yup.⁠ Do I regret the choices that have led me to this place in life?⁠ Nope. Not really at all.⁠ Now, my goal for these is to have them out for you some time around the beginning of spring in these parts.*⁠ The pattern's all done and ready to go. I just have to get outside and do a photo shoot. Well...I also have to do an extensive survey of which easter candy will be cutest at said photo [...]

This is reminder number three thousand seventy two that it's better to set your thumb stitches aside on a piece of scrap yarn (rather than a spare needle) if at all possible. ⁠ Because you really do want to try your mitts on at about this point, just to make sure you've made enough room for your thumb. And the yarn (which curves! like how your knitted fabric curves) will do a much better job of letting you gauge the fit than a needle (which does not curve! which will, in fact, distort your fabric and feel like knives when [...]

Wanna make this hat? If you knit it, and show it off online, I'll send you pattern for the matching mitts for free (they have such a pretty thumb). Details below! I'll start with the short version, because we're all tired, but there are more details at the end if you have questions. Short version: Make sure you're on the mailing list and grab this hat when it comes out (it should be out March 1). Post a picture of the finished hat on a human head on either ravelry or instagram before the mitts come out (later in March, [...]

So last week I dragged the hat off to one of my favorite beaches to let it perch on big logs and show off its charms. Which was a great plan, save for the part where it was so windy that it was hard to walk and so cold it was hard to breathe.⁠ This was one of the few shots where the hat was laying still, not cartwheeling down the ice covered beach. And, seeing as how *I* do not much want to go cartwheeling down the ice covered beach, I called an early halt.⁠ Which worked out fine, [...]

As is traditional (since I consistently buy extra yarn), I had yarn leftover at the end of the hat.  And since I firmly believe that accessory sets are more fun than single pieces, much of this yarn is fated to become mitts. Lovely matching mitts.  With a really excellent thumb. Which I fully acknowledge you cannot actually see here!  But which I have seen, and which I therefore know is going to be absolutely charming.  Eventually.

So, um, how many hearts is too many? Asking for a me. ⁠⁠ To be fair, I'm pretty sure I've mailed off or handed out about as many as I have here over the years. And they seem to be generally well received (that, or a lot of folks are secretly real damn mad at me, so hopefully I've not gotten that one wrong). So I like to have a small supply on hand for when someone seems like they might be in need of one.⁠ ⁠ Lately I find myself especially drawn to the tiny ones, which take about [...]