I'm going to talk about swatching & blocking. That always makes some folks a bit touchy. So I'll start by saying you are the boss of your knitting, and you can or not do whatever you want. ⁠ But holy wow do I have a whole bunch feelings about what [...]

Ok, this is a lovely example of how pairing fuzzy bits with your yarns does magical things.⁠ We've got three yarns here. The fuzzy one is Shibui's Silk Cloud in Cove. It's held with two different colors of Hypothesis Yarns' Tweed Dk. ⁠ On the hat (the larger piece of [...]

Did I use the same absurd increase from the pattern at the base of the thumb? Why yes, yes I did. And it's unspeakably lovely if I do say so myself. ⁠ I mean I'll understand if you can't quite see it yet, because this is not yet blocked and [...]

I am unreasonably fond of how fast mitts are. No really...I'm pretty sure I could knit one in a day or two without doing myself any particular damage. Especially one like this where every ten rows or so you get to do The Giant And Unspeakably Satisfying Increase, which somehow [...]

Ok, let's talk about the matching mitts. So, when I buy yarn, I usually try to buy two skeins of the same kind, because I usually end up knitting hats & mitts or hats & cowls or some other sort of set. That's what I knit most, and it's what [...]

Someone is absolutely bound to ask about the needles. So yes, they're square! They're made by Kollage. ⁠ I like them! But there is one thing to look out for. ⁠ They used to come in a bronze color, and I had problems with the bronze coating wearing off on [...]

Alrighty, all done and rather charming if I do say so myself. ⁠ I've got mitts to match on the needles already (mostly match...there's a yarn thing going on that I'll explain in a future post that means someone out there is bound to think that they don't match they [...]

Am I unspeakably pleased with how the spacing on the top of this worked out? Why yes, yes I am.⁠ ⁠Now, someone is out there wondering why I didn't put the leafy bit over the whole hat. And the answer is that the hat would fit kind of weird if [...]

You may have noticed I only put the fancy bit one one little stripe of the hat. And we'll talk about one of the reasons I did that in a day or two. But one of the reasons is just 'I absolutely needed to leave room to just let this [...]

Earlier this morning I sent an email out to my yarn shops letting them know that I'm down to my last tiny handful of copies of Curls 1 and Curls 2 and that I'm starting to run low on other titles and planning to have them all wrapped up by [...]