Stayed up past my bedtime playing with my toys. These things are bound to happen, I'm sure you understand. P.S. these are first drafts of the idea I had twenty minutes before I made them, the next draft will be much better, and the version after that will actually start to look the way I want...but I'm trying to show more shitty first drafts. Because your first try probably isn't your best work...unless you stop after your first attempt!

Excellent vintage vibes at the thrift shop! I am especially smitten with that little paper envelope (I had to look up what "size 13" meant in this context). Would these have followed you home? Do you have any vintage knitting tools in your craft collection?

I do not know how to be a person on this timeline. I do not know how to reconcile the unspeakable atrocities this government is doing in my name with the bliss of standing in the sunshine on the first warm day of the season. I don't know how to cycle between watching children be murdered with weapons paid for by my tax dollars and spotting the first crocus of the season, between watching my government protect billionaires who rape children and sitting quietly at the shore hearing nothing but the waves, between reading about children being held in concentration [...]

If you, like me, are suddenly overcome with the inexplicable urge to make the world's most impractical notebook paper, well, I'm here to help! At the very least I can offer moral support and the reassurance that you are not alone in your desires. I'll also offer slightly more practical assistance, by which I mean, my printing team is, right this very minute, hard at work on a whole stack of prepunched cards that will out to Notable Nonsense folks in April (barring any exciting disasters in the next two weeks). And for those who want to take a more [...]

So the arrangement seems to be me + sweater = sweater full of  holes. Luckily, the follow on seems to be sweater full of holes + me + thread = holes so pretty we can pretend they're decorations and there on purpose. At least that's what I'm telling myself as I do the inaugural round of mending on the sweater that joined the pajama sweater roster this last winter. I'm playing with DMC's eco vita floss, which is an organic wool dyed with natural dyes. I've not used it before, and there's always a chance something dreadful will happen in [...]

I can think of very few objects as deeply satisfying to hold and interact with as these little pieces of embroidered notebook paper. All available evidence seems to indicate that y'all are enamored with them too, so clearly we need to make it easy for as many of us to interact with them as possible! To that end, I'm doing four things. First, I'll make a series of videos where I sort of gently talk you through how I made mine. Because if you're looking at this and thinking 'huh, I could make that,' you're right, you totally could! Anyone [...]

This morning found me at the post office bright and early to hand over three bins stuffed to the brim with happy mail! Packages should start arriving as early as tomorrow for local folks (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire), and later in the week for folks a little farther away. That wraps up March's mailing! So let's do a quick run down of what happens next: Later this month, I'll do a post about what's going to be in April's mailing. That will give anyone who doesn't want to play in April a chance to free up spots for new folks. [...]

Two things!  One: The spiffy new tier on patreon (the one where you get a pair of these awesome scissors heading for your mailbox early next week) is closing tomorrow! So if you want them, this is last call. Head to this post for more details. There's a button at the bottom that says "join to unlock" that will let you sign up! Two: We've got a handful of Community Supported Patreon Memberships available! I switched from Community Supported Patterns to Community Supported Patreon Memberships (which lets me include things like this spiffy new tier in the program). Details about those [...]

Ahem. I have it on good authority that neeeeeext month's mailing is going to be, um, related to this. For this has captured my very soul and is occupying far too many of my waking hours. And it's spawning...variations...which is always a portent of doom. I might (might you understand, nothing is cast in stone, you are hearing this early when things absolutely for sure will change between now and whenever this officially gets announced, literally anyone who comes back and goes 'but you saiiiiiiiiiid you'd do it thaaaaaat way, how dare things chaaaaaaaange' will be pointed towards this exact [...]