Happy Thanksgiving
I hope you're all having a lovely day. Our plans include procuring the traditional Thanksgiving pizza, playing lots of board games, petting kittens, and generally just chilling. Sometime over the weekend, The Boy will be doing some funky footwork to spiff up the blog (what, you say you're supposed to [...]
Thanksgiving Sale (yes, even the books)
I'm continuing my acts of consumer disobedience and declining to go anywhere near anything to do with black Friday. I'll be tucked up at home playing board games, making ice cream, and quite possibly knitting. I hope whatever you're doing, you like it as much as I like being home [...]
Revenge of the 80s
Do you remember the just slightly slouchy hat with the handspun yarn from the other day? Well, I had some yarn left when I was done with it. To be specific, I had a whole pile of the handspun (the goal of the exercise was to use all the handspun) [...]
Combo Pack
I've had some requests from people who want to be able to buy both physical books without having to checkout twice (or pay shipping twice!). After a bit of diligent typing and swearing, and some noble assistance from The Boy, now you can! On the pages for both Knitter's Curiosity [...]
Ornamental
Everything looks better on the beach. Rocks are shinier and more colorful when they're wet. Shells are too, and they don't have nearly the same risk of funny smells when they're still by the shore (that only develops after you've forgotten them in your trunk for a week). This shameless [...]
Closure
Oh, I almost forgot. While I've already detailed my yarny acquisitions from the Maine trip, I haven't yet shown you my nifty new buttons. I know they're not strictly knitting related, but they will almost certainly get used in some sort of knitterly pursuit, so I'm pretending they're fair game. [...]
Suspicions
My longstanding love affair with Handmaiden's Casbah sock is well documented. I've knit four pairs of socks with the stuff (Slant, Graupel, Rampant, and the as of yet unnamed socks), which is just about unheard of. I can't think of any other yarn I've used for that many socks. It's [...]
Book Yarn, Part VIII
Next up, Barking Dog Yarns. I've been using Barking Dog Yarns for just about forever. I think my first pattern with them was Peregrinate, and of course we mustn't forget Inlay or the Loasa lateritia projects from the first volume of Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet. I've loved everything I've made with [...]
Brain Teaser
Would you like to have your mind ever so gently blown to smithereens? I promise it doesn't hurt. I further promise that when you're done going 'wait, just how does that work again?' and you move on to 'ok, let's try it' you'll be delighted. Jeny Staiman (she of Jeny's [...]
Book Yarn, Part VII
And now, Saffron Dyeworks. I discovered Saffron Dyeworks when I was sourcing yarns for the first volume of Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet. I fell promptly in love and am still helplessly smitten today. The Polypodium vulgare socks, from Saffron Dyeworks' tush are some of my very favorites from that book (shhh, [...]
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