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 [...]

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 [...]