I'm not sure why, but somehow knitting two mitts never feels as dire as knitting two socks. The second sock is always a slog, but the second mitt pretty much always just zooms along. Does anyone ever do the two at a time thing some folks like for socks? Full [...]

Every month I write a post saying "abortions are good!" and send a donation to Aid Access to support their work providing abortion pills to people who need them. This month marks a year since Roe v Wade was overturned, a year since the Supreme Court declared that I am [...]

Me, to myself: You know, if you knit some mitts, that means you'll get to come up with a pretty thumb gusset for them. You know you like playing with pretty thumb gussets. They're almost as much fun as fancy hat crowns, and it's easier to see your hands than [...]

It always seemed like a shame that Constellate didn't have some mitts to go with it. Luckily, this is an eminently solvable problem. ⁠ I have a special fondness for solvable problems these days, they make such a nice contrast to the other problems. So let's solve this one.

See, I told you the top was spiffy. Well, technically this isn't the top, because I ripped this out and made a tiny and completely gratuitous tweak that no one but me will likely notice or care about (I decided I wanted the space between the petal looking bits to [...]

Today in 'things I didn't know existed and then instantly bought when I found out about them' are curtain weights. Well, let me be more specific. I knew about the long tubes of curtain weights (the ones that look like teeny tiny strings of sausages), but not about these button [...]

Oh. Oh my. Oh my yes. Now, this isn't blocked yet, and it will absolutely flatten out a good bit once it is. But I'm kind of loving this. I'm trying to decide if I want to make one little tweak to the decreases, and I really should decide before [...]

So, what is the proper number of tentacles for a respectable person to knit? Because I heard a rumor Little Skein Anne might be making kits for these (just in case you don't want to track down some of the fiddlier bits yourself), and I find myself suddenly inclined to [...]

Oh, oh this fabric is doing a THING. A nifty, textured, wavy, in and out, super smushy THING. Now, there's always a little bit of a risk with a fabric like this that won't lay down totally flat, even after blocking. Some people are really really really bugged by it. [...]

  And I'm delighted with the version I settled on and think it's really solid and useful and all the details are thoroughly worked out! However (you knew there was going to be a however, didn't you?)... However while I was making that stack of them, all I could think [...]