Fairness
And, just in the interest of fairness, here's the same hat as yesterday, in the same yarn (well, same base, just a different color) knit straight through the gradient, rather than pulling from the opposite end for the fancy stitches. No, I will not be picking a favorite. They're both delightful and picking favorites is no fair at all. Well, I mean *you* can pick a favorite. I just shall steadfastly decline to do any such thing.
In Trouble
You know that thing where something is so damn pretty it gets you in trouble because you Just Cannot Stop Petting It (fine for knits, not ok for people)? Yeah. This hat is doing that. I had meant for it just to be a hat. But god those colors are too pretty to be done with, so there's a very good chance I might (accidentally you understand) be making a pair of mitts to match. Do I already have a pair of mitts to match with the gradient going straight through? Yes of course. Of course I do. But somehow [...]
Floofy goodness
Ok, here's the color thing I was telling you about the other day. The pink fabric and the orange fabric both use the same background yarn (a single ply from Seven Sisters Arts), the only difference is the floof color (both fuzzy laceweights from Haute Knit Yarn). For some reason, this delights me to no end. I'm going to need someone to provide me with a very convincing reason not to find a purple floof yarn and continue the shenanigans...
Paper
Um, so, speaking of being distracted by shiny objects, did you know that you can iron and sew mulberry paper preeeeeeetty much the same way you'd sew fabric? And that this can lead to no end of distraction? And also to some lovely window shades to help deal with the glaring daystar of death lurking outside your window? Because you totally totally can...and very possibly should.
Shiny Objects
So I'm in one of those phases where I have A Whole Lot of Projects, all at various stages of completion, yet somehow all I want to do is Start New Thiiiiiiiiiings. Like this guy. This guy that's all the way knit, and which I actually wrote the whole pattern for, charts and all, and then...sort of forgot about? Because I was distracted by the new shiny somewhere between here and there? Because my brain can apparently just do that if I'm not careful? It's time to tidy some of that up! There's a testing call up for this over [...]
Colorful floof
So this? This bit of screaming pink goodness? It's actually the same base yarn as the orange mitts, just held double with a different color of fluffy yarn. It always amazes me how much of a difference that makes, but somehow it really really really does. Now if you'll excuse me, I believe I have to go on a little stash dive/internet wander to see if I can find some sort of neon purple floof to round out the set.
Clearly
Now that the mitts are done, clearly we need to do a hat...
Weather dependent
So these are done. And the general plan is both to have them come back out, and to make a hat to match. And probably to make a little digression on how that stitch works and how to play with it because that sort of thing amuses me. All of which will be available in various forms as they come together. The timing of all that is somewhat weather dependent. It's summer, finding the right sort of day to take photos where they'll come out nicely and I won't keel over from the heat sometimes takes a while. And I [...]
Shorthand
This? This is alas another of those things best done by pointing and gesturing and talking. The video that goes with this is up on a public post on patreon and also on instagram, and you should go look at one of those for a second first so this makes sense! Ok, so first I must emphasize, Do Not Fret If This Looks Like Gibberish! But this is sort of how I draw out stitch patterns when it's JUST for me. Just for my own use, not ever to be inflicted on anyone else in any but the most informal [...]
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