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 last week with Dippers, and this week's sock is Greenhorn. This is what happens when someone tries to talk me into straying from a top down sock with a heel flap (aka my one true sock love).  We end up with something that goes together [...]

These do one of the niftiest pop up tricks I've ever seen in knitting. Seriously it's way more fun than it should be. That first picture shows what they look like when you're done knitting them, the second one shows what they look like when you pop them into shape and get ready to stuff them. There is no picture that shows the maniacal gleam of delight that I get in my eye every time I do the aforementioned popping into shape, because that would scare the more sensitive members of the audience and we cant have that. But really [...]

Yup, that will do nicely!⁠ Ok, general info round up, because I see a few folks have questions. ⁠ 1) Yes, it will be a pattern! Very likely as early as next month if everything goes according to plan and there are no surprises.⁠ Here's the gentle reminder that about 99% of the stuff I show on here is of my own design, and the vast vast vast majority of things that get beyond the swatch stage turn into patterns. I can think of literally one thing that got to the finished object stage (again, swatches totally don't count, swatches [...]

I'm pretty sure it's the sprinkles that take these from donut adjacent to yes absolutely that's a donut, no question about it.⁠ I like to use bugle beads, especially the opaque ones (yes, yes I did totally trim the translucent ones off the initial donut and replace them with these, no I'm not sorry). But you can also embroider them on (especially if you want to give this to a kid or a pet, the beads are probably not super safe for anyone prone to chewing on things). ⁠ But I'm fairly sure I'm past my putting inopportune things in [...]

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.  This week's sock is Dippers. These are still some of the absolute best socks I've ever made for handling, ahem, enthusiastically colored yarns.  If you've got a yarn that wants to pool on you, one of the easiest things to do is use a stitch pattern that [...]

Now you just take this little bit over here, and join it up with this little bit over here. And all of a sudden it stops looking like a terrible error in judgement and starts looking like a donut. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself!

Just a quiet little mention that next month is shaping up to be all about socks. ⁠ Not in an organized, formal, preplanned sort of way. No, that's apparently not how we're doing things this summer. This summer has more of a pinball thing going on wherein we ricochet from one thing to the next, only just barely under control, overwhelmed by the loud noises and flashing lights, constantly in danger of activating the tilt sensor. It's a whole vibe.⁠ More in a 'huh, you know what, I have a whole bunch of awesome sock patterns that never made it [...]

The donuts? The donuts are delightfully mellow knitting. All stockinette, all in the round, nothing too weird going on at all. Except for one little bit where it just absolutely positively for sure looks like you've made a terrible error and it will never ever possibly come together and be a donut. Except that it will. It totally will. You just have to trust me on this one.

We have two options. Either you can talk me out of this nonsense, or you can tell me about donut-colored yarns. Either one is fine...I am certain one can live a happy life without a whole bunch of knitted donuts.⁠ Though the idea of knitting a half dozen of these (this is the prototype, the real ones would be a bit bigger) and doing something hilarious with my favorite local donut shop does have a certain appeal.⁠ So...the donut's fate is in your hand. Either provide good, solid reasons why a fine, upstanding citizen such as myself should not knit [...]