Look, sometimes you have a wild notion, go to bed ruminating on it, wake up still ruminating on it, realize you have precisely zero suitable yarn, and then find yourself in the car on the way to the yarn store. It happens.  I mean not too often, but from time [...]

See...it all works out fine in the end. I just needed one nice long (ahem, knot free) stretch at the end for the body of the hat. And yes, this (and the gray one with the star on top) will both show up in a pattern (think next week assuming [...]

So after the knot the other day, I wound up all the rest of the yarn to make sure I wouldn't hit that problem again (insert lecture about this being one of the many benefits of winding your yarn before you start your project, a lecture I apparently need to [...]

Ok, so no one likes knots. But most of the time, they're just a small irritation. However, on long color change yarns, they can actually be sort of a problem.⁠ See how the yarn on one side is blue? And the yarn on the other side is white? Yeah. Not [...]

Remember this lovely thing from way back in December? Back before the holidays beat you up and took your lunch money? Back before the mending project distracted me for a solid week? Back before I got infatuated with tiny envelopes and had to knit a whole post office full of [...]

So I kept looking at the first of the baby hats.  Looking at it and thinking it was just a smidge too short.  Not a lot...it still looked like a hat.  But just enough that it was bugging me.  The time honored tradition of sort of tugging on it a [...]

This might possibly have the biggest 'just one more row' vibes of anything I've ever knit. You create each row of zig zags over the course of a couple of rows of knitting, and the urge to just blast through the rows it takes to get on more perfect line [...]

Look, you knew I was going to have a hard time stopping at just one.  Especially when there was rather a lot of yarn left. This was more or less inevitable. And don't fret, babies don't yet have terribly developed fashion sense, so you can put most anything on their [...]

If you’ve been following along for the last few weeks, you know I am neck deep in a massive shop reorganization.  At the beginning of the year, I took my whole ravelry store down (yes, very very very scary).  And I’ve been busy bringing patterns back out as I get [...]

There we go, ends woven in (yes, yes there are a lot of ends, but it's fine, I kind of like weaving them in).  Blocked (always).  And cute as can be. Possibly slightly cuter than is allowed by law.  But I won't tell if you don't. The only problem (and [...]