Let's do the yarn thing for just a bit. Isn't this pretty?  These go together rather nicely if I do say so myself. I think it's the tiny hits of lavender in the orange yarn...they just zing against the dark purple. Pretty sure you could not ask for a better fit. It's turning into a hat (and probably some mitts), and yarn info is a couple of posts back. And, because just talking about pretty yarn feels sort of trivial today, I also want to say don't worry, we're not done doing the politics thing. I'm working on (another) post about [...]

Earlier today ravelry made a change to their terms of service. They are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on ravelry. They say support for this administration is support for white supremacy, and that they will not allow support for white supremacy in their space. They are absolutely right to make this change. The people who run ravelry have always worked tremendously hard to create a space that is safe and inclusive and welcoming.  They  have done an outstanding job at what seems like an ever more impossible task.  They are, without doubt, some of the kindest, most [...]

Smashing is out ,and it's 10% off on ravelry with the code FLIP for the next few days. Now, I will absolutely not try to convince you that this is hard or fancy or complicated knitting.  It's really not.  It's ribbing, worked on the bias.  You can't get too much easier than that. But...when you get done with the decreases (those I will totally claim are clever...not hard mind you, but clever) and turn up the corner and see it all blocked and finished?  Well somehow it's way more adorable than it has any right to be. And it is [...]

Nearly there!⠀I flat out LOVE how this one is pooling.  The yarn is Clara from Manos del Uruguay in the color Miel, and it works up beautifully with this pattern.⠀ This hat is actually a fun project for a lot of opinionated yarns (not that this one is particularly obstreperous...but we all know there's a yarn or two in our stashes that just needs to have its say and there's no point in arguing). Because the fabric is fairly simple (just ribbing, no cables, no lace), you can use colorful yarns easily.  And because the fabric sits on an angle, the line [...]

This is one of those knits that just looks *odd* until it's done and blocked.  And that's not a bad thing!  But it does mean I'm asking you to make a bit of a leap of faith for a bit there in the middle. Two things make me feel a little better about that.  First, it's a hat. It's a small project.  It's not like I'm asking you to spend two months knitting a knee length cardigan and only know at the end that it will work out.  Second, I'm showing lots and lots of pictures here on the blog, on ig, on my rav [...]

The replacement hat (for the original hat really is a bit too worn to use for photos) is clipping along nicely. The biggest slow down is that I keep stopping to fold up the corner and admire how it comes together. Sometime even going so far as to move it over to circular needles (one of the very few things circular needles do better than DPNs is wrap around curvy things like heads). This does not make for speedy knitting.  I mean it's satisfying...but not speedy!