This is all your fault. Last week I asked you to sign up for a super stealthy, one time only mailing list if you really really really wanted the pointy hat pattern and intended to buy it if I wrote it up. ⁠ I said if enough of you signed up, I'd write it. ⁠ And you did! You absolutely positively did! Which is lovely. So I decided I'd make a cute little curlicue variation too, just for fun.⁠ I kinda like this one time only mailing list thing...I'm going to see if I can find something special to do [...]

Ok, the wee tiny owl (the temptation to call him Owlfred is very nearly overwhelming) is just about ready to come out (as always, if you want to be sure you hear when he does, make sure you're on the mailing list).  But before he does, I wanted to spend a little time doing a supply rundown so you can have some ideas about what you will want to have on hand if you want to make one for yourself. Now first, don't get overwhelmed.  All you really need is yarn, needles, and something to stuff it with.  All the [...]

Alrighty, last one (I told you I did not have the levels of focus required for sustained bombardment...we'll just quietly be awed that I managed three posts in a row and call it good there.⁠ These three are all brioche. I fell hard for brioche a few years ago (we had a burst pipe, we had to have the floors in our Whole Damn House replaced, I spent an icy winter afternoon huddled in front of my computer, hiding from the incessant banging, teaching myself how to do it...if I can learn it under those circumstances, you can absolutely learn [...]

Ok, so this is the second (out of a grand total of three, do not worry, I am not going to bombard you, I am not focused enough to maintain sustained bombardment) Blatant Flashing Of The Back Catalog post. ⁠ I've discovered both that you folks share my fondness for accessory sets, and that I am Absolutely Terrible at showing off anything other than what's coming next, so I'm totally taking it as permission to occasionally flash a few pretties from the past.⁠ Yesterday we talked about single yarn patterns (go back a post if you missed it) so today [...]

So some of the things I heard from folks after I posted the Likewise and Otherwise set on instagram the other day made it super clear that I do an absolutely terrible job of showing off my existing patterns. ⁠ I have a tendency to focus on whatever the Shiny New Thing is. The time consuming nature of knitting means I'm currently working on things that will come out next year, and all my focus is on them. So showing off stuff that's coming out now is hard enough, showing off stuff that came out months or years ago is [...]

I hadn't intended to write a pattern for this, but when I posted it on instagram folks were, um, let's just say enthusiastic.  Enthusiastic enough that I might just possibly be convinced to reconsider. But if you want me to do that, I need you to do me a favor.⁠ I've created a mailing list for folks who are Real Damn Sure they'd buy this pattern if I wrote it. If enough folks sign up, I will write the pattern. If I write the pattern, I will send Precisely One Email to the people on the list letting them know [...]

I have a prop shelf in my office. Well, no, I have several prop shelves in my office. But the one that's out and in full view of everyone (as opposed to hidden away in a closet) is full of these hand forms. ⁠ And I think they're actually kind of pretty? Faintly industrial, pleasantly glossy in amongst all that fuzzy yarn and soft paper, gently anatomical but not at all gruesome. But other folks have said they find them unbearably creepy. And I never really got that. Until now. ⁠ But somehow, something about these pictures gives me a [...]

Ahem. Damn.⁠ And again, just for clarity, please mentally file this under 'very unlikely to become a pattern.' Because this is by far the single hardest yarn I've ever tried to photograph in my whole life. And that's before you try and get a kitten involved (black kittens being a bit hard to photograph anyway, and kittens in general not being known for sitting still and taking art direction).⁠ But wow is it cute.⁠ Yarn is Cascade's Luminosa in color 12. And while it is not something I'd work with generally, it is clearly the most suitable thing imaginable to [...]

All I can say is I have a solid black kitten and very little sense of shame. You can probably figure out for yourself what that means this is.⁠ Here's the bit where I say, right from the very beginning, that this one probably won't be an actual pattern, in part because the thought of taking a picture of a wiggly black kitten wearing a piece of black knitting gives me a headache just thinking about it, in part because it may actually pass my own personal ridiculousness threshold. There is the very tiniest possibility that I might maybe possibly [...]