Yeah, I've never been good at knowing when to stop. Which is doubtless a challenge to folks in my life. But it seems to work out ok for folks who cross my path in a work context, as it means there tend to be...um...options in my patterns.⁠ Which is the long way of saying yes, all the different mushroom shapes are in the pattern. Because of course they are. Because I mean really, why not. ⁠ The pattern is called Foraged, and you've got a few more hours (till the end of the day today, Friday the 17th) to use [...]

I started a patreon last year when I revamped my business. I was nervous, but it ended up being exactly what I needed. So let's talk about it!⁠ Making a living writing knitting patterns is...tricky. There are rather a lot of people who think patterns should be free or at least dirt cheap (yet somehow still expect professionally produced patterns which take a tremendous amount of time & skill & camera gear & fancy software to create). Not you folks! I decided early on I was absolutely not going to try to appeal to people who felt that way and [...]

There's a voice in my head that is constantly warning me that Someone In Charge is going to show up any second now, get right up in my face, and demand I explain myself. Insist I justify my choices. Require that I convince them that I am Normal and Trustworthy and Reasonable. But here's the thing...that never ever ever happens. It just doesn't. No one is ever going to knock on my door, tell me they received a report that I knit something useless and absurd, and make me account for this scandalous waste of time. If this were gonna [...]

They're back! The pattern is called Foraged, it's out on both ravelry and payhip, and the code TOADSTOOL will take 10% off for the next few days.⁠ Now look, I fully acknowledge these are not precisely the most practical knit in the world. But I maintain that sometimes practicality is not what you need. Sometimes you need delight and wonder and absurdity. And these do a pretty good job on that score.⁠ There are a whole bunch of different mushroom shapes in the pattern. Each one only take a few hours, a few dozen yards of yarn (mine are made [...]

So I mean yeah, you can use duplicate stitch to do all sorts of utilitarian mending stuff. It's an absolutely grand way to reinforce weak spots in your fabric. But you can also make it preeeeeeeeeetty. Possibly even borderline fancy. I'm stitching on the hat that came out last week (as part of the little bonus on duplicate stitch that will be out later this month). And I gotta be honest, I'm kinda loving this vibe. This is going to be fun!

So it doesn't precisely feel like it just yet (we've gotten more snow in March than we did in December), but the days are getting longer and spring is just about here. Which seemed like a fabulous excuse to bring these little guys back. They will (as always, barring any catastrophes) be back Tuesday! If you need a copy for yourself, you know what to do. And if you want to help someone else get a copy, you can donate to the Community Supported Pattern fund. We've talked about this before, but the idea is that folks with a little [...]

Despite the best efforts of the authorities, it seems The Incident is not yet fully contained. There is no need to be alarmed. Please remain calm and await further instruction.

There has, I regret to inform you, been An Incident. ⁠ Never fear, the appropriate authorities have been contacted. Support service are being provided to the affected parties. Plans are being devised to prevent this from happening again.⁠ Those plans are doomed to failure, because this is tremendous fun and I have no intention of stopping.⁠ But you knew that already.

This is a perfect demonstration of how different knitting looks when you make just the tiniest imaginable change. ⁠ These two hats start out exactly the same at the brim. Then, when you work the body, you introduce some increases and decreases. The increases are in the same place on both, but not the decreases. ⁠On one (the green one), the decreases are all stacked up, one on top of the other, all in the same column of the chart, and always the same distance from the increases. On the other (the white one), they they meander across the chart [...]