Again
My country is inaugurating a fascist rapist today. Again. Instead of a competent woman. Again. And that's doing a number on my brain, so I'm going to spend the day working on the next iteration of this. It's one giant piece of paper folded up to make several pockets. The [...]
Tidy up
Now that all three stitches are in place, you can go back and tidy them up. It's likely to be an iterative process. Tighten them a little, stretch the fabric, tighten them a little more, stretch it again, keep going like that until it looks right. Once it's done, tie [...]
Sloppy
Start by duplicate stitching over stitch below the wonky bit, and leave your stitches big and sloppy. No really, biiiiiiig and sloppy. Looser is better. Then duplicate stitch over the miscreant and just...put it in the right way. I know, you have to look at it and see what the [...]
We can fix it
We can fix it…or at least hide it! Way back at the beginning of the hat, I worked a left leaning decrease where I should have worked a right-leaning decrease. And that means the wrong stitch is on top in this column of yellow stitches. Now, the ‘right’ way to [...]
Subtle, or?
The sweater had a tiny hole. I have a pile of pretty silk embroidery floss from Molly Girl Yarn. And also the requisite amount of gumption to tackle this task. The only question is do we go subtle, or...enthusiastic. I'm leaning towards enthusiastic, mostly because once a sweater starts getting [...]
Accidental
I...I might have started a little project. Maybe. Possibly. When no one was looking. By accident you understand. And it's not done. Nope, not done at all. But I might possibly have gotten the first draft back. You know, the one where all I can see is the seven [...]
Leftovers
I know myself. I know I believe accessories are more fun in sets. And I keep that in mind when I buy yarn. So when I finished the hat and found myself in possession of an extra skein of each (plus a fairly sizeable leftovers ball of each of the [...]
Double down
Am I going to block this, then fix the goofy bit, then block it again? Yup. Because that's the best way to make the fix damn near invisible, and because blocking takes all of 2 minutes of active effort (get it wet, squeeze it out, plop it over the hat [...]
Off to a good start
Well, that's this year's first official knit, and I'm declaring the year off to a good start. Though I have noticed a spot where a decrease is leaning the wrong way. Yes, even though I ripped the whole damn thing out to fix that at the beginning. What can I [...]
What’s this called?
Ok, so the bit where the yellow opens up and we just run in yellow for a we run for a while in yellow with the blue only sort of peeking out in the background...what is that called? It's not just one color brioche. The blue is in there, every [...]
Mailing List
Want to hear when a new pattern comes out or something fun is going on? Sign up below!
Patreon
Want to support the content I create, get nifty bonus material for some of my favorite patterns, or get every new release delivered right to your inbox? Head over to patreon and sign up!