This is the knitting equivalent of 'let's zoom in reeeeeeeeal close on your nose and make you feel bad about your pores.'  Gather round.⁠ See it?  I'll sing the 'one of these things is not like the other' song for you in the background.  See how on most of the clusters, there are three columns of knit stitches...but on one there are four?  Yeah...that's no good. Here, let's show it off again, in all it's messed up glory.  Right there in the middle. I should have ripped it.  I should have, it wouldn't have taken long, and it would have been [...]

Refraction is out on ravelry, it's 10% off with the code BOUNCE (or you can get it as part of a set for a bigger discount, details on the rav page), and I've got yarn to give away!  But first I want to talk about the hat a little.  This is the knitting equivalent of opposite day. Wait, that takes a little explanation... So, earlier this year I fell hard for brioche. I was (and remain) hideously smitten. I had a hard time knitting anything else. But, I know not everyone shares my current obsession. Which I suppose is fine...probably [...]

So I mean technically this is done.  As in 'it's not on the needles any more.' But I'm not loving the top as much as I should.  So I'm going to rip back the last dozen or so rounds (yes, on fuzzy yarn, yes, on brioche) and fix it.  Because it will be SO much better if I fix it. So, all the good vibes, all the good light, and absolutely no lap kittens for the next fifteen minutes.  I'll report back when it's all better!

See, I told you we'd get through this in time! The lovely thing about thick fluffy hats is that they knit up delightfully quickly. Oh and just for the record (because in my mad dash to talk about two hats in a week I think I neglected to mention it), the yarns on this one are Martin's Lab's Tyrell DK and Silky Mohair, both in the color Seashells.  I held them double and they played absolutely beautifully together. Holding a strand of mohair along with another yarn just makes the whole thing glow (and makes whatever you're knitting extra cozy.  [...]

We're taking turns, ok? Yesterday was the purple fluffy bit of business.  Today it's swirly turquoise all the way. I don't think I told you anything about the yarn.  It's by Katia, and I think it's called Concept, though maybe it's Concept Cotton-Merino (it's a little hard to tell from the label what the name actually is).  Whatever it's called it's lovely. There's a sort of icord tube in the middle, knit out the cotton thread.  And then fluffy tufts of merino are sort of caught in the tube to make it all soft and puffy.  I expect it will [...]

Don't worry, the purple hat is still out there being all purple and hat like. This is basically the opposite day version of Incidence.  It's thick yarn instead of tiny yarn.  It's got a massive deep brim instead of no brim at all.  And it's firmly in the 'yeah, but what if I don't want to do brioche camp'.  Because really...most anything you can do in brioche, you can do in ribbing too. No really...brioche is just fanc-ified 1x1 ribbing.  So you can pretty much always strip the fancy bits back and have something nifty left behind.  And that's what I'm [...]

I may have to get a whole new stash.  A new stash composed entirely of giant poufy yarns that knit up in ten minutes flat. Because this is the second hat I tore through in less than 24 hours from cast on to bind off. And while I can't recommend doing that (seriously, it makes my elbow hurt, it is not a good idea), it is rather satisfying. And yes, yes the purple hat is what I should be showing you.  It will come tomorrow.  For today, I just need to pet this.

I love a deep brim.  Well wait.  I love wearing a deep brim.  It's cozy, it looks adorable (if I do say so myself), and it lets you fine tune the height of the hat if you're having a particularly poufy hair day (look, I have rather willful hair, it's best to plan around it). Tragically, wearing a deep brim does mean you must first knit a deep brim.  I'm less enamored of that bit.  But by jove I have knit enough hats with skimpy brims to know better. I want a full five inches of brim at a minimum [...]

I feel like I *should* be able to show you things in a perfect, logical, reasonable order.  I should knit stuff, take lots of pictures as I go, edit them and write about them, then save them up to show you in the week or two leading up to the debut of the pattern for whatever it was I was knitting.  Like that doesn't sound like too much to ask for.  But somehow, no.  I cannot quite manage that level of organization.  ⁠ So instead of getting more of the lovely hat that will come out later this month (that light purple one from the [...]