Pieces
I'm coming to love my scraps bin. I used to be fairly ruthless about throwing out little bits of yarn. If a yarn leftover was under 100 yards or so I'd decide I was never really going to use it for anything and just chuck it. But these days...these days [...]
Bespeckle (plus giveaway)
Bespeckle is up on ravelry, there's yarn to give away on instagram, and the pattern is 10% off for the first few days it's out with the code SPECK. This was just supposed to be about the pompoms. I had this burning need to put all the stuff I find [...]
Psssst…
So I'm knitting cupcakes. Which is fun and frivolous and festive and should be a carefree sort of thing, right? And for the most part it totally is! But one thing keeps happening, and I'm in a place where I want to talk about it for just a quick second. [...]
My on going quest for indestructible socks
So I really do mean it when I say I mend my socks. Every time I take them off, I check for thin spots. If there's just a little thin spot, I'll wash them first and then mend them. If there's an actual hole, I'll fix them before I wash [...]
I got distracted
I should...I should be talking to you about the speckled hat and all its pom-pomy goodness. And I will. For it is coming out in just a second here. But...well...somehow I'm distracted. I don't think you can blame me. Yes, there will be a pattern (really, I can't remember the last time [...]
And now we start actually knitting
So, after all those swatches, it's time to actually knit the thing! I'm doing a rolled brim (in part because I like how it looks and fits, but also in part because I want to get to the color change bit as quickly as I can, and plowing through a [...]
Can blogs have birthdays?
So some time in the last few days, two very unlikely things happened. The blog turned 10 (how...how can that have happened), and I realized I had 50,000 followers on instagram. My first thought was "I so totally deserve a cupcake." Well no, my first though was "how in the [...]
The Progression of a Swatch
You know how I'm always telling you to swatch? How I'm telling you that like 75% of knitting questions/problems can be addressed with a good swatch? Yeah, that's today's theme once again. I want to walk you through the swatching that happened for my next project. Keep in mind this [...]
Snip snip snip
Ok, so if I've convinced you to make your pompoms with much more yarn than you would expect (and if I haven't go read the previous post again), then the next step is to get you trimming them. There's really no secret to this other than practice, persistence, and patience. [...]
You were warned…
I warned you we were going to talk about pompoms this week. I fully realize that this is ridiculous. There are actual problems in this world and the last thing we should be spending time on is fluffy yarn balls. And yet...somehow here I am...full of opinions about pompoms. Perhaps [...]
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