If you're my neighbor, you're probably eventually going to come upon me, sprawled out full length on the ground, pointing a whole lot of camera at a very small bit of knitting and carefully nudging a clump of moss or a wisp of leaf into just the right spot.  Which is fine!  Assuming I'm not in someone else's yard or dangerously close to the road, I maintain that this is harmless. But it does give rise to a bit of chatter.  So I try to allow for a reasonable length of time between incidents so as not to stir up [...]

Just about two years ago, I brought out Hoard.  It used real acorn caps on top of knit acorns, which was adorable, and gave a person an excuse to go crawl around under trees and hunt for treasures.  But there is another way to top your acorns.  You can totally do knit caps instead.  So today, I sent out an update to the pattern with instructions for knitted tops! And they're rather endearing if I do say so myself.  Cute on their own, with bonus cuteness points if you make acorn twins! Of course the best option might well be [...]

As far as coping mechanisms go, this seems fairly harmless. I mean it's not quite as productive as the stress cleaning and stress baking I usually do. But I think I got all that out of my system in the first few months of the current crisis. But it seems the crisis is outlasting my messy corners and my need for baked goods, so now we move on to other techniques. And well, these are soft and soothing and satisfying and somehow there's always room for just one more. The pattern is Hoard (rav, payhip). Right this second it has [...]

So, if you knit your own acorn caps (instead of scampering around under the trees hunting for them like a deranged forest sprite) you can make double acorn caps on demand. ⁠⠀ ⁠You know...just in case that's something that might be of interest to some of you. Because some days you need just a tiny bit more cute to get through your day (everyone knows double acorn caps are double cute).⁠ The pattern is Hoard (rav, payhip). Right this second it has the instructions for making these with real acorn caps (which I maintain are unspeakably charming as well). In [...]

You folks are delightful.  Together we raised $2,000 to send off to my local food bank (they are a bit technologically limited so I can't show you a screenshot because I have to actually mail a paper check, and I do not love you enough to show you a photo of my checks)! And now I want to tell you a little bit about what happened when I ran this sale and raised this money.  Mostly what happened is that people said kind things, bought patterns, and shared the promotion so that others would see it and we could raise [...]

Small things are happening (yes, again). I don't have the focus for much right now (it's the rage and despair, they're hell on the attention span).  But my goodness I can do small things. And sometimes small things come out rather nicely! Ok, questions and answers... Yes, that's the Hoard pattern from a few years ago, now with a knit cap option (the original version of the pattern had you using real acorn caps, which is also hideously adorable).⁠ No, it hasn't been added to the Hoard pattern yet. But it will be (standard 'assuming I don't die first' disclaimer [...]

Things feel hopeless. Really wretchedly hopeless. I'm tired and I'm scared and I'm angry. And I feel completely helpless. And when I feel that way, the best thing to do is to find some tiny thing to do to help someone else. Mostly because it's good to help, but also because it makes me feel just a little bit less awful, and wow do I need that right now.⁠ ⁠ So from now through Sunday, Dollop and Peached are both 25% off with the code EVERYONE NEEDS TO EAT. All profits from the sale of these two patterns from now [...]

As promised, a lovely pair of leafy mitts to go with the hat from earlier this month! Henceforth is out, and it continues to support my theory that knitted leaves are unspeakably charming. No really, I don't think I've ever met a knitted leaf I don't like.  Hats, mitts, cowls, they are just impossible to resist. They are especially nice because you can often mirror them, which soothes the part of my brain that likes symmetry.  That's what I did here, and it's subtle, but oh so satisfying. And speaking of satisfying, those thumbs are rather special!  If you're looking [...]

Ahem. I love this more than I should probably admit in public.  And I suspect some of you do too. I keep thinking of all the things I'd do with them, like make them as hostess gifts or housewarming presents or party favors (you know, if we weren't in the middle of a terrible pandemic made immeasurably worse by colossal ineptitude on the part of our government and unconscionable selfishness on the part of a subset of our citizenry). And I've heard from folks who want to make little holiday villages (I admit this was not part of my holiday [...]