Dispatch
As promised, Dispatch is back! You can find it on ravelry or payhip. And just before anyone has a chance to ask, yes they open and close, yes you can put things in them! I mean you should know me well enough by now to know I wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that! Love notes, gift cards, baby teeth, you know better than I do the sort of nonsense you could get up to with a tiny envelope (though I'd love to hear what you come up with)! The code NOTE will take 15% off Dispatch between now and [...]
New box of pencils
I firmly believe embroidering on your knitting is the closest thing to coloring you can do with fabric. And sometimes? Sometimes a package comes in the mail and it feels exactly like a fresh box of colored pencils. Yarn is Little Skein Anne and everything she does is magic. This has got to win some sort of prize for shortest time from yarn arrival to cast on. I have A Very Good Plan (and you know I'm never happier than when implementing A Very Good Plan).
Send a little love
So you know how I said I'd occasionally bring back some of my favorite patterns? Yeah, well this one (Dispatch), has been by far one of the most requested. And I know a whole bunch of folks like to make them to tuck little love notes in for Valentines Day, and who am I to stand in the way of a little more love in the world. The pattern should be back out next week (as always, barring any catastrophes between now and then, because wow does the world seem ready to hand out catastrophes these days)! If you want [...]
January Housekeeping
Herbs in the garden in January in Maine means we're doomed. But doomed is more fun with herb-y brown butter rice krispie treats than without them, so I might as well have a snack. I made these on stories the other day and a shocking number of you suddenly found yourselves overcome by a heretofore unsuspected longing for them. The general procedure is 'make rice krispie treats, but toast your cereal with handfuls of herbs, use browned butter also with herbs, and use way more butter and marshmallow than the box tells you to.' But should you want the longer, [...]
Holey, part 5
See, it gets cooler the more you fill it in. Good taste suggests I show a modicum of restraint and call this bit finished. Wouldn't want to overdo it... Though there are a few other holes on this sweater, so I suspect the absurdities will continue for a bit yet. If you want to watch me stitch a few of these and talk about how I make them, I did a bit of that over on patreon.
Holey, part 4
Ok see, I told you it gets better if you keep going! The trick really is to just keep at it. One looks lonely, two or three look kinda sad. But once you start to get a whole bunch of them all hanging out together, they get cuter and cuter. Though I'm not done yet, I want to add a few more in there still. These are dead easy to do, and good for covering lots of ground quickly, so they're one of my favorites for covering up holes/stains/evidence of past crimes. Should you have some unfathomable urge to watch [...]
Variations 8
Last one! Thank you all for indulging me while I played with my new toy. I realize it may well have had that 'small child asks you if you'd like to meet their favorite stuffed animals' vibe. This is star F from the book with fold 6 nudged out so it doesn't quite meet the midline, the bottom point folded up at a slightly different spot, and assembled following the widest lines on the assembly guide. The white picture shows the original from the book. And with that, the obsession's grip has slightly loosened. I'll *probably* be able to [...]
Holey, part 3
Ok real talk, It Always Looks Kinda Underwhelming At The Beginning. No really, I finally figured this out. EVERY time I go to stitch on a hole, I spend the first half hour I'm stitching thinking ew, this is not good, why am I so bad at this, I suck, what will everyone think, I should just throw this away. Like to the point where I actually have a hard time showing you this because it's dreadfully unassuming at this stage. But mending, at least my mending, always looks like that right about now, so I wanted to show you [...]
Variations 7
Ok, so this one in particular makes me really really want to do a whole set of these where they've got six points like a snowflake. I'm blaming the lovely soft blue. It's totally doable, you just have to resign yourself to sliiiiiiightly fiddlier folds at the start. But really, I suspect the jack frost vibe would be worth it! This (colorful picture) is star C from the book with the fold in step 5 nudged out a bit so it doesn't quite meet the center, the fold where the bottom point comes up to the top moved around a [...]
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