See? That's much better (where better is defined as 'more to my liking,' I get that it's subjective). That is making the part of my brain that likes speckles and soft things and somehow gloomy-but-luminous things very very very happy. I pretty much never regret ripping if the yarn isn't [...]

Remember how I said I had more yarn?  That's because the good folks at A Very For Keeping Warm are still shipping yarn right now, and they had something irresistible to round out my floof collection. And I'm pretty darn sure that yellow one was the shade I actually needed [...]

This was supposed to work. These two were supposed to look all delightfully dramatic and high contrast and zippy. And they almost do.  Almost.  But in the fabric, the yellow is just a little too green. And the yellow bits on the purple yarn are just a little too peachy. [...]

I've given this spiel before, but yes, yes I do generally cast on over two needles (at least for the long tail cast on).⁠ Now, I see a few of you out there warming up your fingers right now to send me impassioned lectures about how this is bad and [...]

I'm thinking about what I want to do next. The answer of late is 'something soft...something soft and fluffy and bright, and don't you dare try and make me feel bad about it.' ⁠So i figured I'd do a floof census and see what my choices are. ⁠ ⁠ Somehow [...]

So, there's this thing that sometimes happens where the easily distracted part of my brain says 'hey, what would happen if we tweaked this one little bit?' And the ever so much more practical part of my brain has to come along and say 'nope, make a decision and stick [...]

And done. Because what I needed was another hat.  I mean no, I have an absurd number of hats, about three of which I actually wear 90% of the time. What I need is more people on whom I can inflict my misguided hat making tendencies. As always, pattern will [...]

Perhaps, in an ideal world, I would not knit two speckled gray hats with pink accents in quick succession. But as we clearly do not actually live in an ideal world, we shall have to do our best to shoulder this hardship and carry on. I'd feel worse about this [...]

I've found my pandemic knitting sweet spot.  I need projects that are very, very mellow, but with just a tiny bit of something going on so they don't get boring.  For me, that seems to mean miles of stockinette with just a hint of something fancy for a few stitches.  [...]

See, now it looks way more like there was a coherent plan all along, and not like I dropped a marker and it bled all over my knitting. Or at least I think so.  I suppose it's possible everyone else hates it and I'm the only one smitten. Though really, [...]