The donuts are scheduled to come out on July 6. Now, you absolutely do not need anything special to make them (I'm working on the assumption you can already tell that you need needles and yarn and stuffing just by looking at them). But if you want to get a bit, um, shall we say exuberant, there are a few things I suspect one or two of you might want to lay hands on before you get started.  So I figured I'd talk a bit about what I used so you can see what you might want and have it [...]

So it turns out, the thing to do to make these donuts astonishingly nifty is to stuff them super Super SUPER full. Like 'huh, I'm not sure I can actually get anything else in there' type full. ⁠ ⁠ I'm using weighted plastic pellets to stuff mine, and I can get just about six ounces of them in the big ones. These are the ones I like best (amazon links are affiliate links, and there's a whole weird set of laws that say I have to mention that explicitly, hence me being a weirdo), but you can totally search for [...]

As promised, June is going to be all socks all month long.  The plan, (and holy smokes, it seems to be coming to fruition, we're almost done!), is to do a sock every single Tuesday (and there are five Tuesdays this month!) so we can get a bunch of our old friends out of hibernation.  We started with Dippers, then Greenhorn, we did Enchase last week, and now it's time for Peregrinate. This is actually one where I had you folks decide for me which sock we'd do this week.  I asked on twitter and instagram if you wanted these [...]

I wandered around a yarn store.⁠ And I don't mean 'I dashed into the store right as it opened to quickly grab the stuff I'd ordered online the day before, keeping my trip as short as possible, and feeling a weird mix of guilty and worried the whole time, because as important as yarn is it's not technically a necessity and it's been kind of irresponsible to do non-necessary, in-person stuff for a long time now.' No. I mean 'I browsed. I took my time. I found new things. I bought stuff I didn't know about before I set foot [...]

As promised, June is going to be all socks all month long.  The plan, assuming nothing goes alarmingly pear shaped over the next few weeks, is to do a sock every single Tuesday (and there are five Tuesdays this month!) so we can get a bunch of our old friends out of hibernation.  We started with Dippers, did Greenhorn last week, and this week's sock is Enchase. This is absolutely me indulging my predilection for teeny tiny, twisty, one-stitch cables.  I find them unspeakably tidy and orderly and logical and satisfying (and yes, for anyone wondering, I absolutely did have [...]

Ahem. I may have a problem. Or, not so much a problem as a tendency to excess.  I'm not even sure I can pretend to be sorry.  Because really, there's nothing here to be sorry for.

Apparently this is just the month for getting patterns ready to go (you seriously should see the list of stuff that's coming out in the second half of the year, it's frankly alarming). It's time for this hat (one of the few practical things on the schedule, the rest of it is a whole bunch of tiny, absurd nonsense that I'm just unspeakably excited for).  Testing thread is up over on ravelry if you're so inclined!

Testing call for the donuts is up over on ravelry.⁠⁠ I'm picking testers later today, then sending out the pattern tomorrow. With any luck at all, the pattern should be out in July. ⁠ I'm slightly torn over when in July (normally I do a summer school thing in July instead of releasing new patterns, and I'm trying to see if there's a practical way to do both or if I should just not do summer school this year and put out new patterns). But either way, July is looking pretty darn likely.⁠ Which means this is an excellent time [...]