Monthly Reminder
Remember how they promised there were exceptions for emergencies? They were lying. And people have died as a result. Go read (or listen to) this piece from ProPublica about Amber Nicole Thurman's completely unnecessary death. Bring tissues. Then go read this piece from Pregnancy Justice on how "the Dobbs decision emboldened prosecutors to develop ever more aggressive strategies to prosecute pregnancy, leading to the most pregnancy-related criminal cases on record." Then go double check your voter registration and make a plan to vote. (Some states already have early voting open...folks in Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia can literally go vote [...]
Heart’s desire
Bat-tholomew informed me he really does require a hat. And who am I to deny him his heart's desire. Now, would someone like to explain to him about his ears and how they may complicate things?
The Star Kits are up for preorder!
If you watch me make these every year and think 'oooooooh...I wanna make those, but tracking down the supplies feels hard,' then this is the solution! I'm doing kits with absolutely everything you need to make either 6 or 12 stars (paper, assembly stickers, hanging dots, folding tool, assembly template, ebook of instructions for 9 brand new stars). I'm only doing a few. I'm only doing them as a preorder (they'll show up in November). And I'm only doing them on Patreon. Absolutely all the information you need to make one of the kits show up at your door is [...]
Limits
Someone talk me out of knitting one of the wee pointy hats for our little flappy friends. Because there have to be some sort of limits to the absurdity. We cannot indulge all of our baser instincts. The pattern is Fangs (and the wee pointy hats are Ensorcellment, but we are resisting that, resisting I tell you). My self control, on the other hand, is nowhere to be found. Darn.
A Proper Plan
The alarmingly long, overly detailed version of exactly how the kit preorder is going to work, spelled out at great length just so I can feel thorough, is below. But before we get started, I want to put this bit up front: I really need to keep this simple and streamlined if I'm going to pull it off. So I am going to be very firm about only doing this in a way and at a scale that works for me right now. So while there are all sorts of other things that would also be fun, they all add [...]
Bat bits
So our sweet, chompy little friends are out (Fangs, on both payhip and ravelry, and 15% off for the next couple of days with the code BATTY). And, just in case you were wondering about innards, I'm going to link you to the stuff I used on mine.* First is peg dolls. These come in a fairly limited range of sizes. I used one of the super duper giant ones (easier to see the step by step photos on this one), and I love them at that scale, but they are a bit harder to find at that size. These are delightfully [...]
Ok so we’re doing this!
I am absolutely delighted by how excited everyone is for this paper, so we are totally going to do kits. I honestly expected the vibe to be either 'eh, nah, not for me' (which cool, no problem) or 'how very very very dare you charge enough to both pay for your supplies and for postage and pay anyone who helps you a decent wage for their work and pay yourself a decent wage for your time'. But instead everyone was delightful and excited and absolutely no one on instagram told me I was a monster. So now we're going to do [...]
Fangs
Fangs is out on both payhip and ravelry, and you can use the code BATTY for 15% off for the next few days! Now look, I know you do not need these. Literally no one needs these. They fulfill no vital function. Billions and billions and billions of humans will live perfectly happy lives completely unaware of their existence. However, a small sliver of folks will become aware of them. Because by some twist of fate, I managed to make a life where I get to show my toys to lots of people on the internet. And an even small sliver [...]
Soooo…kits?
Right. You know how every year I make stars. And every year I say 'oh, if only the paper came in prettier colors.' But not this year. This year I FOUND the paper in prettier colors. Yes it's ungodly expensive, yes you have to import it, in bulk, from overseas. But ya know...that's something I'm good at. So I was thinking what if we did kits...what if we did little kits with everything you needed to make either 6 or 12 of these stars (the paper, plus a bit extra for practice, stickers for assembling them, dots for hanging them, [...]
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