"But aren't they slippery?!" is the most common question I get about knitted slippers. And my answer is always some version of "um, they're about as slippery as regular socks?" Slippers are basically extra thick, extra short socks. So if socks don't feel slippery, slippers probably won't. If socks do feel slippery, slippers probably will. But then there's this stuff called Sock Stop * which purports to make socks grippy. So I bought some and I'm going to experiment with it. Wanna see how it comes out? You can watch me put it on some little samples over here, and [...]

Ahem...a package came. Two packages actually. Two packages full of the embroidered notepaper cards I got made just for us. You know, the ones you can absolutely add grommets to and/or clip together with a binder ring, because goodness knows I love me some office supplies. The ones I got done with nifty (if shockingly difficult to photograph) texture so that you can really feel the individual stitches (no really, you want to run your fingernail over them, they're so delightfully tactile). And all of that's cool...but you know the real question is what's it like to write on them? [...]

I (may probably almost certainly) have suffered a small lapse in judgement at the thrift shop. Please know that I am aware of this and that I have extremely low expectations. No really, lower than that. Lower still. I fully assume the most likely outcome of this purchase is 'this sits in my garage until the next purge fit comes upon me, at which point it is re-donated to the thrift shop.' The next most likely outcome is 'I watch a bunch of youtube videos, try setting it up, and quit in a fit of rage after an hour or [...]

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 [...]