Countdown 2
Anemochory is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. I should do more socks with shaped arches. They're just so pretty. They make your foot look all graceful and curvy and swoopy and not at all like a baked potato trying to hide its lumpen nature inside a casing of lovely knitting. I mean it helps if you can press someone with actual arches in their feet (instead of me, the flat footed wonder) into service as your model. But even on my feet, these end up looking far more delicate than you'd ever [...]
Countdown 1
Indomitable is on sale for 25% off on ravelry or payhip with the code COUNTDOWN. Look, I have feelings about socks. They can't be boring (so all ribbing all the time is out). But they also can't be hard (because too many things are hard right now thanks very much). They need to be pretty (because I'm not wasting my time on ugly socks). But they also need to appeal to someone besides just me (because in theory I want other folks to make them too). It's a lot to expect from a sock, but I sort of suspect these [...]
Countdown
The tradition continues! Well, both the tradition where I fold lots of innocent bits of paper into nonsense, and also the one where I try to use December to both prepare for the new year (it's coming at us with alarming speed whether we're prepared or not) and rest. Which, admittedly, I’m not very good at (I say, glancing at my calendar for 2020 and counting up the 19 brand new patterns I brought out this year and the 87 book patterns I brought out of their bookish purgatory and released into the world in their individual forms and the [...]
More cheer, more assembly
The paper stars are not the only absurd seasonal obsession. They have a companion. And, much as with their more colorful counterparts, I also will not tell you how to make them. For I am mean and terrible and full of hate. I did, however, lay a whole bunch of it out last year. And you could, if so inclined, to read that post (which also totally doesn't actually tell you how to make them, but sort of points you in the right direction and gives you a firm push). You know, in case that sort of thing was of [...]
Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving (you know, to American folks, just sort of a generalized happy Thursday to the rest of the world). I am off having my traditional thanksgiving pizza (year seventeen and counting, and I do not regret it one bit) and staying offline this week. And I sincerely hope that you are all tucked up safely at home (with folks you generally share air with, not out swapping germs with new folks, this is not the time to swap germs) and getting some rest too. I know some of you are really missing your people, and I want to say [...]
Indie Gift-a-Long
Yup, it's that time again. That time when some folks with better organization and planning skills than I will ever possess do a bunch of work to organize and host a massive giftalong over on ravelry. I, being easily daunted and quickly overwhelmed, tend to mostly just sort of sit back and watch in awe. I know my limitations. But I do use it as an opportunity to put a few patterns on sale every year. And this year? Well this year I think we could all use some stuff we can make in a day or two (I can't [...]
Cheer, some assembly required
Have you noticed how many things require you to do lots of little steps, repeated over and over and over again, before the reveal their charms? I'm making paper stars (yes, again, pretty much every year around this time). And I want to take pictures of them against a bright shining sky to show them off. But it's gray and gloomy today. So all I can do is offer these, which only hint at their true glory, and fold the rest of the pieces. And then, after I've done the same little steps, over and over and over again, I'll [...]
I mean sure why not
Ok, so I asked (over on instagram) for questions about the wee tiny village (Chimney and Belfry). And one of the things that came up a few times was 'how did you make the little tree?' Which, I admit, I was not expecting. But it's super easy, so I can totally show you. It's just a twig from a tree in my yard (mine's from a hawthorn tree, but look around for one with a good branching pattern that works at the scale you're looking for). Then I yanked the top off one of those 'sport bottles' (the ones with [...]
Belfry
Was your village missing something? I mean you have lots of options for houses, but maybe what you need is a church? Or a school house? Or a town hall? Because I know we're all working hard to stay home more, but I'm pretty sure the folks in your tiny, woolly village can still go out safely! If they've been petitioning for somewhere else to go, Belfry is out today, and it adds a lovely new option for your town. And really? I am, well, let's say more than usually sympathetic to the idea that folks might want a bit [...]
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