June's Notable Nonsense went in the mail yesterday and should start arriving in mailboxes early next week. Is that two days later than I'd have liked? Yup! Did the package with the cards ship a full week after it was supposed to? Mmmm hmm. Did Fedex then have an unexpected delay and take an extra day to deliver the package (the package that I paid extra to have delivered via overnight express) until July 1? You guessed it, also yes. Was I able to stuff hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of envelopes in the two hours between when the box [...]

I did tell you I was entering a slipper phase. And if you've been here for more than a minute, you know I don't usually do things by half measures. So it seems perfectly reasonable that the slippers would, eventually, come to include grommets and/or laces. At least for some values of reasonable... Never fear, both the grommets and the laces are optional. You can do neither, just laces, just grommets, or both grommets and laces. But opportunities to frolic through your days, twinkle toed and beribboned, are scandalously infrequent, so I know what I'll be doing. This will likely be [...]

But boy on boy are there small but deeply frustrating problems from time to time. The good news is I've already solved this one! Quick version up top for anyone in a hurry: There was a manufacturing error with the first batch of cards, so I got them reprinted. They'll be here next week, so you've got through Monday to get on the Notable Nonsense tier (or until it fills up, which may well happen first) if you want to get these in this month's mail club shipment. Being on the Notable Nonsense tier is the only way to get [...]

So the idea of elbow patches on the (previously mended, once chopped, heavily worn) sweater we discussed in the last post seems to be quite well received, but some folks had some more specific questions about how I'm actually going to do it. The short answer is 'erm, sew some other fabric onto it...like how patches always work?' But the longer answer is that all mending is always a bit improvisational, because all damage is different, and all mends are specific to the damage they're addressing. It starts with looking at the thing you're mending to see where the wear [...]

So back in the halcyon days of October 2024, when the phrase "for profit cage match on the white house lawn" had not yet been uttered by serious journalists, I took scissors to a sweater that had languished in the back of my closet since about 2015. I didn't like the length, so I chopped it off. This was, according to some of the internet's more ridiculous busybodies, an absolute scandal. How very very very dare I modify a piece of my own clothing from my own closet so that it suited me better (rather than, apparently, either continuing to [...]

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 [...]