Filed under 'things that look really rather odd right now, but will be quite cute when they're done.' Which is pretty much all of my knitting lately. ⁠ Is this just an excuse to spend more time playing with blocks? Well...sure. Though I'm not really sure one needs an excuse. [...]

The tiny hats are, as is traditional, multiplying. Because it's just more fun that way. it's looking like there will be six (two each of three different patterns) because that will make the best use of my bits and bobs of yarn (it's all by Ontheround, plush single for the [...]

Alrighty then, who's ready for a bit of a distraction to get them through the next week?  Because I know I certainly am.  Distraction techniques vary, but if tiny cute things work for you, then maybe Chimney is what you're looking for. Now look, I am not under the mistaken [...]

You've probably been here long enough to have heard the 'block all the things, yes even the tiny ones...very possibly especailly the tiny ones' lecture. Very likely more than once.  But for this one, I took an extra step and did a bit of sneaky prep before I blocked. I [...]

So the other day we made nice tidy tassels, but I haven't yet shown you what they were for.  And the answer is, as it has from time to time been in the past, tiny hats. Teeny tiny ornament sized hats. And I realize you have very little to use [...]

You wanna see the behind the scenes side of things?⁠ If you zoom in close, you'll see my wee village there in the middle. It's carefully set up on an old oar I found on the beach. There are flat rocks tucked under and around the houses to level things [...]

Alrighty, just to resolve any lingering questions about how the blocks thing works...⁠ Yes, I have filled my houses with blocks (cough, both these tiny knitted houses and my real actual house because blocks are kinda fun to have around).⁠ Yes, I think you should do the same if you [...]

Yes. Yes it looks like a tampon.  Go ahead, I know at least some of you are thinking it.  It's fine. But while it might look a little absurd, this is actually the best way to trim the ends of a tassel.  Wrap them in a little strip of paper [...]

I am selective about my traditions.  I don't put up a christmas tree. I don't do birthday presents. I don't do a thanksgiving turkey.  But you can be damn sure I do a thanksgiving pizza.  And when the sun starts setting so early that my brain gets fuzzy, I make [...]

Look, I have bought some weird stuff for work over the years. I have a shelf of body parts (fine, I have a shelf of head forms and hand forms and foot forms for blocking and photographs, but saying I have a shelf of body parts sounds so much cooler). [...]