Ok, so I have a plan for how we're going to test out these postcards (before they later launch as a product)! If you wanna maybe be a postcard tester (think like a pattern tester, except you're saying it's ok if I mail you a couple postcards to play around with), instructions for that are over here.⁠ Everything you probably want to know is over there!⁠ And don't worry, I'll tell you more about where you can get the postcards as we get closer to launching them (which will probably be in July). They'll be for my mail club folks [...]

For anyone who saw the cards in the last post and thought 'that should be a postcard,' I have two things to say. First, you're right...second, I have good news! The backs of them are, indeed, set up to be postcards. Now I know someone is wondering, so yes, right up front, my expectation is that if you want to make them as a postcard (meaning not in an envelope, using a postcard stamp), you'd want to make them unstitched. And if you want to cover them in string you'd want to put them in an envelope to keep them safe and [...]

So remember a couple weeks ago when I said some version of 'holy crap weasels, getting the notebook paper made was the most complicated thing I've ever produced, I had to learn a bunch of shit to make this happen?' Yeah...well...it seems silly to do all that learning and then only use it once, right? Much better to take that knowledge and use it again for an adjacent project. You know...just to be efficient. That's it, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Efficiency. Yup. Mhm, for sure.

So last time we tried out Sock Stop. And the verdict was 'does indeed make things grippy...but also you can feel it under foot.' So now we're trying another product, this time Plasti Dip. It's pretty much what it sounds like (rubberized coating in a tin) and is meant, as again the name perhaps suggests, to dip things in to give them a grippy plastic coating. So it seemed only fair to see what it does on a sock. I'll report back once it's dry and then again once it's gone through the wash a bit. If you want to [...]

Look, I am easily amused. I freely admit it. And I don't even think it's a bad thing. I do, in fact, think it's quite delightful. Because it means I can be absolutely tickled pink by no end of ridiculous things...like putting grommets in my perfect little stitched notebook paper. I know I can't be the only one amused. These are the grommet sets I use (that's an amazon link because if you're going to get them there, they might as well pay me a couple cents...but if you can get them somewhere else, totally do that instead), and you [...]

The punched cards came Monday morning, which means I spent Monday afternoon stuffing envelopes and Tuesday afternoon printing labels and carting things off to the post office! Everything went in the mail Tuesday afternoon, which means nearby folks (I'm in Maine) will likely start finding treats in the mail as early as today! (Do I love that we have graduated to 'needs a couple of laundry baskets to lug about?' Yes, yes indeed I do!) That wraps up May's mailing. June's (and July's, and August's, because damn if I haven't learned that cool things take extra time) treats are already [...]

Two things!  One: The spiffy new tier on patreon (the one where you get to make your own amazing embroidered notebook paper) is closing tonight! So if you want in, this is last call. Head to this post for more details. Two: We've got a handful of Community Supported Patreon Memberships available! I switched from Community Supported Patterns to Community Supported Patreon Memberships (which lets me include things like this spiffy new tier in the program). Details about those spots for this month are right over here. Then, just as a little treat, how about a secret third thing...namely the first [...]

The other day we started a little science experiment and put some Sock Stop* on a sacrificial sock to see if it might make knitted slippers less slippery. I left it to dry for a couple of days and am back with results! The short version is it makes the surface much grippier...but I can for sure feel it underfoot. The longer version is slightly more nuanced. So, this goes on a lot like glue or puffy paint. In order to have the non-slip effect, you need to put it on thick enough that you get a smooth, solid, uninterrupted [...]