I fully admit this is not the most stimulating picture of yarn you're going to see today. But if it comes across your feed, I want you to take it as a tiny bit of encouragement to learn a new-to-you cast on.⁠ A year or two ago I learned how [...]

I regret to inform you that, despite my very best efforts to the contrary, we are fast approaching the Festive Holiday Season, a period of rampant overspending, looming panic, forced good cheer, and general existential dread. Or possibly that's just me and you folks are a rather more balanced and [...]

You folks are, on the whole, an astonishingly clever and creative bunch. There is every possibility that you have come up with something cooler or cuter to do with the cap off of your orange juice bottle, that expired credit card in your desk drawer, the empty chapstick tube in [...]

This? Um, I fully realize it doesn't necessarily look like it quiet yet, but this is the most joyful thing I've knit in quite some time. Because you see, we're just about to the spot where the yarn starts doing Secret Fancy Tricks. And once the yarn starts doing Secret [...]

Look, it's possible that you woke up this morning in a totally spotless house, having enjoyed nine full hours of deep and restorative sleep, ate a delicious and healthy breakfast, noticed, as you glanced in the mirror, that you are looking particularly radiant these days, and then settled into your [...]

Look, sometimes the best thing about a trip is opening your mail when you get home. Especially if you had the excellent forethought to arrange to have THIS arriving in the mail while you were gone. Because really, have you ever seen anything so lovely?⁠ It's one of Seven Sisters [...]

Ooof. No really. Ooof is pretty much all I can manage right this second.⁠ You see, I went away last week on what was supposed to be a lovely, calm, relaxing, refreshing, restorative trip. The sort of trip where you hang out somewhere pretty and take nice walks and eat [...]

Sometimes? Sometimes a person simply has to give in and embrace the nonsense and just do the thing. And if the thing happens to be using a wood burning tool to decorate a scrap of leather to affix to a knitted potion bottle? Well then that doesn't seem like it [...]