But first, we block
Yes, I am absolutely itching to start the embroidery. No, I will not do it just yet. First, I'm going to block the hat. Now, someone, somewhere is grumbling that they hate blocking and aren't going to do it. And that's fine, you are the boss of your knitting and [...]
Done but not done
Right, so, I knit a hat. And you're only seeing it now, when the knitting part is already all done. And at least some of you are probably thinking 'my, that's a rather unassuming little hat, there's usually a bit more drama in these parts.' And you're right...but don't fret...because [...]
Help me decide…
I'm trying to decide if I should get us some icord machines to have as an optional add on for the next kit (which will be for string lights). I haven't shared much about this yet because it's not quite ready. But the pattern involves a fair bit of icord. [...]
Robot helper
A new icord machine has come into my world, this one with a bigger opening, which means I am about to have the very prettiest charging cables you ever did see.* And I need to know, am I the only one sort of entranced by this? Because if I'm not, [...]
Tie one on
So when last we left the skirt, we had a waistband and we had the body of the skirt, and the goal was to join them together. The way I do that is by first trimming the top of the panels to make them nice and even, then running two [...]
Pocketses
So look I'll be honest. Making the pocket for this takes about as much time as making the skirt and waistband combined. It's not that it's hard, it's that it's three pieces, all of which are curvy, all of which have to fit together just right, and some of which [...]
Industrious
Sunday was for sewing, and I plowed through this in record time. I put these together with something sort of half way between a french seam and a felled seam. Do not yell at me, I'm not completely sure on the differences between the two, and I'm likely doing a [...]
Speedrunning a skirt
On Saturday afternoon, I decided, for reasons probably known to someone but certainly not to me, that I absolutely had to make a skirt over the long weekend. Step one was dragging out the suitable candidates from the fabric pile. Then narrowing them down (the light colored plaid is a [...]
Monthly Reminder
Hey folks, let's talk about jury nullification!* Jury nullification is when someone on a jury says 'yup, the defendant totally did what they're accused of, but holy fuck that's a shitty law, so I'm going to find them not guilty anyway.'** And then they keep saying not guilty as long [...]
Messy ends
Ok I know. I know that this looks like nothing so much as a pile of messy ends and poor choices. And that may well prove to be the case! But I think that if we tidy things up a bit and give it a bit of structure, we might [...]
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