Remember this nonsense from last year? How the sudden urge to swaddle perfectly innocent eggs in lacy underthings overtook me and I didn't even have the decency to fight it?⁠ I mean last March was grim. I wasn't going to fight much of anything that kept me home and brought [...]

Ok, this was fun last time, let's do it again.⁠ One chilly Tuesday morning, a week before the pattern came out, I went off on a little field trip. I needed to a nearby town to pick something up. I needed to get hat pictures. And I very much wanted [...]

You know that thing where something is absurdly easy but it looks impressive to folks who don't know the trick of it? Like how making caramel sauce or hot fudge sauce for ice cream is absolutely dead simple, but people lose their ever living minds if you stride calmly into [...]

This is Wucka. He'd be happy to come over and supervise you while you organize your stash. ⁠ He has excellent yarn manners (no chewing, very little claw involvement), but he may occasionally settle in for a little nap if your yarn is particularly appealing.⁠ These things happen.

Ok, we're juuuuuuuust about there. By which I mean it's at that point where I could stop if I wanted. It would look like a hat. You'd never know the difference just looking at the pictures.  But I know myself, and I know if I stop now it will be [...]

There...there's just not a ton to show you about this part of a hat. You get the pattern started, and then? Then you just sort of cruise. And don't get me wrong, it's very enjoyable to do. And it goes quickly because of the aforementioned super bulky yarn/relatively few stitches [...]

And now we shall blast through a hat in near record time... Fairly sure this will actually take a smidge of yarn from the second ball, but we'll start with just one (mad tosh's A.S.A.P. in No Farewell, just because someone out there is wondering). Casting on over two needles [...]

Ok, let's do the absurd behind the scenes thing. This is the destruction wrought upon my living room in the process of taking those ridiculous photos.⁠ That's my barrister bookcase, with the top lifted off and the glass door removed (you can see the door resting on the dining room [...]

When I first had the idea for this pattern, I knew that I wanted to have pictures of a tiny tray holding a collection of lovely knitting notions. There was just one problem. I didn't actually have a collection of lovely knitting notions. I have the sort of knitting notions [...]

I am a person with some very well defined weaknesses. I like strong, black tea (with unholy amounts of cream and honey). I like shiny rocks and mossy sticks (yes, I have a pet furry stick that I water and treat as a house plant).  I am completely susceptible to [...]