Awfully quick and totally worth it
So here's the bit where I glower at you and tell you you should be blocking things. All that generally means is 'toss it a sink full of cool water (kitten supervisor is optional), let it soak for half an hour, squeeze out the excess water, smooth it out, and [...]
Kinda cute, and awfully quick
So that thing where babies have small(ish) heads? Yeah, well it makes for quick knitting. This went from swatch to cast on to finished over something like two or three knitting sessions. Which is fair, because from what I've heard, babies outgrow knitted stuff at an alarming rate. But now, [...]
Absurd, but kinda cute
Someone I know (very definitely not me, seriously, no, do not even ask, that's super weird to ask and you should totally know better, you will get a whole lecture if you make it weird) is currently producing a baby. And that means I get to make some truly absurd [...]
Sometimes you cook, sometimes you get takeout
On Tuesday I put out the pattern for Dispatch (the little envelopes of alarming cuteness). The response was overwhelmingly positive (it pretty much always is for those tiny projects). People were excited it was out. People bought the pattern. People started showing me the awesome things they were making and [...]
One month in
Somehow (and please do not ask me how, it certainly wasn't my idea) we're just over a month into the new year. And we're exactly a month out from the morning I sat down at my computer and took my whole ravelry shop down for a giant organizing and tidying [...]
Dispatch
Dispatch is out, it's 10% off with the code POSTED, and you can have a whole stack of them knit up by the end of the week. So I'm always torn between talking about the practical stuff (how it's made, what yarn you need) and the fun stuff (what to [...]
And now it starts to get tidier
So, we had the messy middle part. We made the patches. Now it finally starts to look better. After sending the patches through the washer and dryer a few times (because if they're going to shrink, I want them to shrink *before* I sew them on my sweater thank you [...]
Sidebar
We interrupt your regularly scheduled elbow patches to talk about the slits on the side of the sweater. I love sweaters with side slits (what can I say, I have a big ass, side slits make for extra ass room). But I find they tend to get messed up over [...]
There is actually some knitting involved in this
So these are the patches. Nothing fancy, just more or less oval shaped, and a good bit bigger than the worn area on the sweater. I'm knitting the patches in Ontheround's Everyday DK in Silver Lining Tweed. That's actually the exact same yarn I used for the original patch (this [...]
The middle is messy
Like with a lot of projects, the middle of this is going to look a bit messy. I'm pretty sure if I were doing this right I'd only show you the shiny finished product. But I always find it refreshing to see that someone else has messy bits in the [...]
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