Ahem...please consider this a demonstration of why you need to swatch to figure out your needle size. A friend and I knit these swatches on the Exact Same Needles from different colors of the Exact Same Yarn, and look at the difference in the gauge. The yarn label says "Needle [...]

Were I to knit a sweater (which I certainly won't be doing until I learn how to use a knitting machines, an undertaking that is in and of itself far from certain), which set of colors would be the most fun? If (again, I emphasize the if of it all, [...]

Ok so the overwhelming consensus was that I absolutely must return to the thrift shop immediately and obtain every last bit of that yarn. So, um, I did. Here's the whole pile. And I'll confess, I feel sliiiiiiightly overwhelmed by this. If the scale and the yarn company's website are [...]

Ahem (clears throat theatrically) *~*~*This Is Why We Wash Our Swatches*~*~* I knew this was going to change dramatically after I washed it, but this is even more of a change than I was expecting. This was enough of a change that I knit (and then didn't block) a second, [...]

The thrift shop gods have smiled upon me!⁠ That purple caught my eye first. Then I petted it, and it had the feel of that sort of slightly rustic wool that will transform beautifully when given a proper dunking. Then I looked at the label, and it seemed encouraging. Then [...]

The slipper phase continues! This time Abeyance is joining the current Rotating Collection. This pattern originally came out in 2019, and it was absolutely fascinating to go back and completely revamp and update it (don't fret, if you had the original, there's already a copy of the new one in [...]

So the other day I asked which slipper we should bring back (to add to the list of slippers currently available as part of the ongoing slipper phase, Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense folks wander over here to download the ones that are already available), and you picked these lovely, [...]

Ahem...I've been walking around with a pocket full of these spreading glee everywhere I go. And, having tested this out on folks locally, I'm going to be Expanding The Glee by flinging them into the void, more specifically into the mailboxes of Notable Nonsense folks. Now, I have to go [...]

The daisies continue to proliferate. I'd say it wasn't my fault, but given that I spending ten minutes of my life on this earth joyfully stitching each and every flower, that would be an absolute lie. They fill me with glee, I regret none of my blanket based choices, I [...]

The blanket saga continues. I suspect this is from the 70s (ish), based on nothing more than color, condition, and general vibes. And it, like most other things existing in the world for the better part of half a century (cough, me, cough), has acquired a few holes along the [...]