I am, much to my own surprise, technically an adult. I have a mortgage. And access to consumer credit. And power tools. I could quite legally create a whole new human being, for whom I would be responsible, without any sort of vetting or supervision process. And yet this, this is what I elect to do with my time. And probably will be for at least the next couple days. Maybe next couple weeks. It's hard to say, I am very, very, very unsupervised. Which I believe is how we ended up in this mess in the first place. So. [...]

I did this backwards! Normally I knit something, show it to you as we go along, then put the pattern out. This time? Well, I knit this ages and ages ago (like literally years), then it languished in the depths of my office for far too long, then I put it out the other day. (It's called Wended, Rampant and Notable Nonsense folks can currently get it [and a stack of other hats that use that same folded brim structure] free right over here, everyone else can buy it here.) That's ok though! All it means is that I'm going [...]

Wended is out on both Ravelry and payhip! Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense folks have a code to download it free on this post. You'll need to be logged in to see the code. 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 find a code for 25% off on this post. That will work through Saturday February 21 on both Ravelry and payhip. Look I love this hat. No like a lot. It combines two of [...]

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 [...]