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. [...]

I firmly believe that one of the signs you are dong cool, new things is that you start running into cool, new problems. That happened with the cards (don't worry, it's already fixed), so I wanted to give you a quick update. TL;DR version right up top: We're swapping the Notable Nonsense schedule so that the printed version of these goes out first (in April) and the punched version goes out second (in May). I'd initially planned to do them the other way around (and mentioned that in at lest a couple of places), but the staggering cleverness and astonishing [...]

I do, generally, try not to soothe my feelings with capitalism. But I needed more of that neon embroidery thread (because oh the notepapers made with it are my favorite). And it seemed silly not to order enough to make shipping from overseas worth it, right? And oh, oh but pretty colors can be a balm to the soul. Yarn is from Vera Yarn Design. Now...what shall I make with it?!

Now that you've gathered all of your supplies, you can set to work prepping the paper for stitching! That basically means cutting it to the right proportions (if you're so inclined, you are of course allowed to skip this or any other step if it sounds too fiddly to you because you are an adult with free will and I am not the boss of your projects), rounding the corners, figuring out where you're going to put the holes, then actually punching the holes. I talk you through lots of the details of that in a video over here if [...]

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 [...]