It's swatching time again! ⁠ I don't think this will end up being the one I go with, but I kind of like showing off the swatches that don't work out too. The stitch pattern I want to use is a little big to use with yarn this fat and [...]

I love a good sneaky trick.  Anything I can do where I look at it after the fact and go 'huh, how did I even do that?' fills me with unspeakable glee.  And Lucent has that in spades. That little sunburst on the side is just unreasonably delightful. Maybe it [...]

Ahem.⁠ What did I say?⁠ Did I not say this was lovely once it was blocked?⁠ I'm pretty darn sure I did.⁠ ⁠Rundown for anyone playing along at home...⁠ It's a new knit of my Lucent pattern (which as been unavailable for years and years but totally deserved to come [...]

Clickity clickity clickity click.⁠ I really really really want to show this to you all blocked. It's got a whole butterfly wing coming out of its cocoon and plumping up thing that happens when it gets blocked. But first, the top. Which was totally worth fixing! Ripping the stuff you [...]

Sigh. No. Bad. Wrong. Do not like.⁠ I mean I *thought* I would like it. I tried to like it. There are circumstances in which I could be convinced to like it. But no.⁠ Not this time. Not with this hat.⁠ So now, we rip. ⁠And swear. And rip.⁠ And [...]

Yeah yeah, unblocked, but it shoooooooould be enough to give you the sense of the thing!⁠ Just enough crumple/structure/shaping to be delightfully dramatic, not so much that you worry people will think you're wearing a tea cozy on your head.⁠ And, for anyone wondering at home, it's a reknit of [...]

Ahem. Are you ready for the fun part? Because we're about to pause and do the fun part. And by the fun part I mean the bit with the crochet hook and the nerves of steel. ⁠ ⁠Feel free to make yourself a calming beverage of your choice and have [...]

This is another one of those super super early patterns that has been gone for ages and ages and ages but that I just couldn't let languish in durance vile for even a moment longer. It deserves to be back out there. You want it on your head.⁠ Or at [...]

Step one, drag all the even vaguely suitable yarns out of the closet. Step two, which is alas shamefully unpictured, is swatch a bunch of little plain rectangles to see what gauge we're working with, so you can imagine a bunch of little rectangles here if you want. Step three [...]

So I have a confession to make.  I love slouchy hats, but I am not at all confident in my ability to put the damn things on without the help of a three way mirror and about four minutes of fussing with it.  Which is not precisely practical when you're [...]