It has come to my attention that one or two of you remain convinced that you can just block your way out of the mess caused by knitting with yarn ramen. I have collected some data to refute that. Why yes, I am a delight at parties,* how did you know? If you want the long version of this (complete with video and download), you can find that right over here (yes it's on patreon, but it's public, anyone can see it, it's just the easiest place to host and organize it). But in the meantime, how about a couple of [...]

I went to the post yesterday and dropped off a whole pile of envelopes. No really, they're going to bring me buckets next time to make it easier to move everything around. 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 February's mailing! So let's do a quick run down of what happens next: Later this month (likely some time next week), I'll do a post about what's going to be in March's mailing. That will give anyone who doesn't [...]

Two things!  One: The spiffy new tier on patreon (the one where you get a pair of these awesome gauge cards headed towards your mailbox early next week) is closing tomorrow! So if you want them, this is last call (plus we're doing a cool thing where anyone who joins starting the first month and stays on for the full year will get month free at the end, so last call to get in on that). 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! [...]

Seems like y'all love these almost as much as I do! They're gauge cards, you lay them on your knitting, scan down the rows until you find the one where you've got one stitch per square, then read the label on that row to get your gauge. Now, is this as accurate as knitting a 6 inch square, washing it, blocking it, and carefully measuring your exact gauge over several different four inch stretches of fabric? Nope! But are most of you going to do all of that? Also very much nope. Does setting this on your fabric get you [...]

So, remember those gauge cards? The ones that sold out in a couple days back in the fall? The ones everyone wanted me to get more of? Yeah, I found a way to do that! I've added a spiffy new tier to patreon for folks who want to get things in the mail. The first shipment will be a pair of these nifty little gauge cards. Patreon is the only way to get them, there are a limited number of spots (I told existing patreon folks about them first so they got first dibs, and as of this writing, they're [...]

I'm shutting things down for the general strike on Friday (more info on the strike here). Except it's a manual process, not something I can automate for a specific time, I am for sure not staying up past my bedtime tonight nor setting an alarm to get up in the middle of the night to turn them back on Saturday morning. So really stuff will be down from now till when I have enough tea in me Saturday morning to be trusted around a computer. I'm putting this here so hopefully folks will see it if they're looking for something [...]

Not the knitting police, but I sure do have opinions. The one I knit with the wonky yarn weighs 5% more than the one I knit with the regular yarn. Yes, some of the unevenness will block out… But if you're using 5% more yarn for the same number and arrangement of stitches, those two pieces of fabric simply are going to be substantially different even after you block them. If you don't wanna straighten your yarn out before you use it again, cool, I can't make you. But I can strongly recommend that you do.