When last we left our non-slip slipper saga (say that three times fast), we had gooped up the sacrificial sock with some Plasti Dip and Sock Stop.* (Saga installments start here and continue here and here, should you be so inclined.) After it dried, it looked like this.  I sent it through the wash a couple of times, and the dryer once (ahem...a thing you will not be doing to your lovely knitted slippers, right? you will be letting them air dry, yes?), and both things held up great. When we started this process, I made two sorts of marks [...]

I owe you a tour of Linearity, the new slippers that just came out (what can I say, the tool cards blew up and I got distracted!) You can, as always, find them on both ravelry and payhip. Or, Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense folks on patreon get it free with their membership for the next few months. These really do look amazingly like shoes, they just have shoe vibes in a way that I cannot explain but fully stand behind. But they work up very much like top down socks with a heel flap (just minus the leg). You'll [...]

So yesterday's post about the tool cards totally broke containment on instagram, so we've got lots of new folks here (welcome!) with questions about how to get the tool cards (and other goodies). Plus I suspect there are at least a handful of folks who were already here who might have some secret questions, so it seemed like a good time to do a quick rundown! Quickest possible answer right up top: the tool cards are for mail club members, sign up for the Notable Nonsense tier if you want them to show up in your mail box! Read on [...]

Remember yesterday when I said I was waiting on the postman to bring our next treat? Yeah, so about that...want a tour? I made us some fantastic little metal tool cards, and I love them more than any reasonable person should. No more than you think. Like a lot more. Down one side you've got a needle gauge, down the other a ruler, and at the very bottom you've got a window that you can lay over your fabric to count your stitches and check your gauge (in inches/US needle sizes on the front, and cm/mm needle sizes on the [...]

Notable Nonsense has been so much fun that I've decided I'm going to keep doing it indefinitely! Now that I've sent out the first three rounds of packages, I've learned a bunch of stuff, and am going to make a handful of small changes to streamline and simplify things. TL;DR Up to for anyone in a hurry: Quick Reminder, Notable Nonsense is the fancy patreon tier where you get things in the actual physical mail. It's $25 per month (which includes shipping anywhere), and you can always change your membership whenever you want). Now that I've decided to keep doing [...]

These are ridiculously fun (and if you've ever made a top down sock with a heel flap, I think you'll feel right at home), and I'm unspeakably delighted with them. They're called Linearity, they're out on on both ravelry and payhip. Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense patreon members get them free over here, and everyone else can take 25% off for the next day or two with the code ALL IN A ROW. You can make them with contrasting heels (if you want, you don't have to, you are the boss of your knitting). And I included an option for [...]

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 [...]