Teazle is out today on ravelry, it's 10% off with the code PRICKLY, and there's yarn to give away later in this post! So you knew it was going to happen...one day I was going to fall for brioche.  And wow did I fall hard.  This is my first brioche project, but I know for sure it won't be the last (yes, yes there are more on the needles already). Now we come to the potentially tricky bit.  Because it is my first brioche project, I totally don't feel comfortable claiming that I can teach you everything you need to know about [...]

Turns out, there's yarn to be had at the Fiber Frolic. Lovely gray speckled yarn (that's June Pryce Fiber Art's Greenwich Worsted base in the color Stormy Days). And lovely purple yarn (that's Shirsty Cat Designs' BFL Sock base in the color Frission).  And seriously...this is exactly the color my hair these days...pretty sure that means it must become a hat. Yarn purchased at Frolic seeeeeeeeems to have magical properties.  The yarns I got the first time I visited (2016) turned into the Ostensibly and Purportedly set, the Calcieform slippers, and the Vestige hat and mitt set.  And the stuff [...]

So if you were to show up at my house (don't...it would be weird) and start digging around in my office baskets looking for the oldest project languishing there waiting for some attention (really don't...that would move from weird into totally unacceptable, I'd ask you to leave), you'd eventually find this. How old is it? Well it was a pattern I contributed to a book that came out in 2013, which means I probably knit it something like 7 or 8 years ago. These pictures here are from when I dragged that original book sample (a bit worse for wear [...]

I've been so good. Really, I have. I've had a pile of yarns for the next book for ages now, and I haven't pestered you with them hardly at all. But I'm all out of will power. Because you see, yesterday I spent the morning grubbing around on the rocks with yarn and shells and seaweed and the barnacles (look...I know it sounds weird, and I am normally very much a 'don't touch that, it looks sticky' sort of person, but there's a certain kind of beach filth I can really get behind). So I'm going to indulge myself and [...]

And, with that, it's done! That's my first proper brioche project, and I couldn't be more smitten.  I mean it is perfect for me because it's orange (automatic ten bonus points) and super stretchy (have I mentioned I have a big head?).  But I'm absolutely tickled with it even beyond that. Now, I need to block it (I blocked my swatch of course, but I've read that blocking brioche sometimes comes with...uh...surprises) and give it some proper photos.  But soon...soon I will show it off in all its glory!

You knew it was coming!  Sundry is out today on ravelry, and it's 10% off with the code STRIPES (or you can get Various and Sundry together for a special discount too, details of that on each pattern's ravelry page). So all the stuff I said about the hat?  The stuff about how I don't like proper colorwork (because it, through no fault of its own, makes me feel clumsy and like I have extra thumbs)?  But how I do like colors?  And how damn it all I'm not letting my clumsiness keep me away from the color...I'll just do [...]

Yup, I'm smitten. I mean I'll fully admit that I'm easily smitten.  It's part of the reason I can do this job, I'm easily infatuated with whatever is on my needles at the moment. But this is really rather delightful!   [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]

Yeah, so I got some yarn.  I told you I've been stress buying yarn. I was down in Portland last month and stopped into KnitWit and found three amazing (and new-to-me) yarns that had to follow me home. That purple bit of lovely on the left is Knerd String's DK Weight Superwash Merino in the color Alpine Daisy. The glowing delight in the middle is Little Fox Yarn's Bōsa in Lakehouse. And the speckled delight on the right is Magpie Fibers' Swanky Sock in Lite Brite. And discoveries like these are one of the many reasons yarn shops are magic [...]