For those thinking 'erm, have you seen a foot? do you know how those work?' in response to the revelation that the not-a-snail was in fact a slipper, perhaps this will help. Esmeralda has lent us her foot modeling services. The bit on the back is a heel flap, and the other bit is the sides of the foot. It is worked flat for a while then joins up and is worked in the round down through the toe. It's fairly similar to the foot part of a top down sock with a heel flap (just you leave a hole [...]

Ok so I told you last time it wasn't quite done. And while nothing is ever really done (you just eventually die and so stop noticing), another couple of hours of work got it pretty firmly in to the 'done for now' state. I decided I absolutely could get a cheap outdoor carpet for the floor (because standing on concrete floors makes my fat, middle-aged body hurt in surprisingly short order), and that it was actually completely reasonable to order a couple of bins to organize stuff. And I will probably end up getting rolling drafting stool so I can [...]

So while there is apparently an untapped  market for both knitted snails and knitted seashells, I have yet to tackle either. I am, instead, firmly in the grips of slipper fever. Luckily it's rarely fatal...a long as you knit enough slippers. I shall do my best to survive this bout. Hand my my needles...for medicinal purposes you understand.

I asked instagram what they thought this was, and a somewhat baffling number of folks decided the clear answer was...snails. Which, I regret to inform you, is not the answer. This time. Though now I have found myself spending a fairly shocking amount of time pondering how one would construct a snail, were one so inclined. Which I wouldn't have said was likely until about 25 hours ago. But now here we are. But in the meantime, I can say with certainty that this isn't a snail.

Ok so this is one of the least photogenic things ever to grace my personal corner of the internet, but dammit all, I'm proud of myself! I felt fretful yesterday (gee, wonder why, it's not like the nominal leader of the free world has clearly lost every single one of his marbles and needs to be put in time out for threatening massive war crimes or anything), and the best response to that feeling for me is often to Do Something Physically Challenging. So I decided to organize all the mail club/kit stuff that's been slowly taking over my office/dining [...]

Alrighty, so you want to see how to do the little doodlybops. Now, my brain says 'the most reasonable and efficient way to do that is to read the nicely streamlined, highly photographed, and actually edited instructions on exactly how to do them that are in the pattern that came out last week...go read those.' Because my personal brain wants to flay alive anyone who is trying to explain something to me in a video. It's too slow, and someone is talking. What a travesty, no one can learn under these conditions. However, I have been led to believe that [...]

Knitting lends itself to horizontal stripes. All you have to do is grab a new color of yarn, and you're all set. But horizontal lines can feel...slightly trickier. They're not though, I promise! And once you have the hang of them, you can use them for all sorts of things. I'm making this (entirely to take a picture of it to use it for an upcoming scheme...more about this later), and it seemed like a perfect chance to show you just how easy it is to add a vertical line in to your knitting. You can watch me do it [...]

Unfurl is out on both Ravelry and payhip! Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense folks have a code to download it free over here. You'll need to be logged in to see it. If you're not on one of those tiers and want to be, click the 'Join to unlock' button at the bottom of the post and you can change that. Everyone else can use the code TOPPLE for 25% off for the first few days the pattern is out. That will work through Friday April 3 on both Ravelry and payhip. It's starting to feel like spring around here. [...]