These started life as a personal project. For you see, I am a board game person. And not just a board game person, but one of those people whose enjoyment of a board game is substantially increased if the various bits and pieces of the game are...cute.   So it [...]

Yeah, yeah I know. This looks ridiculous. I'm not suggesting you walk around with this on your hat! But I did want to show just how much of a difference it can make if you work with different materials. From left to right these are:⁠ - the same yarn the [...]

I mean yes, the quail eggs I found for sale on the side of the road are at least partially responsible for deciding to bring this back out. But really, that is not the worst or the strangest reason I've ever done something like this. So I can't bring myself [...]

Ok so yes, we do not normally do this on weekends. But I heard some of you might be on a bit of a deadline for filling Easter baskets, and I have a bit of Life Stuff going on early next week, so I thought perhaps no one would mind [...]

April Fools' Day Sale! Use the code NO FOOLING for 30% off any of the patterns for tiny, ridiculous things!⁠ ⁠Official bits, just for the avoidance of confusion:⁠⁠ This is for today only (it ends at 11:59pm, EDT, April 1, 2023).⁠ ⁠It covers the patterns for tiny things that aren't [...]

Things that look silly but are useful, take two! So in addition to changing up what you embroider with, you can also play with the size of your stitches.⁠ ⁠ This shows what it looks like if you work over a column of slipped/twisted stitches (left) and what it looks [...]

I heard a rumor some of you found yourselves in need of this to aid in the work of your local candy-delivery lagomorphs. I'll see what I can do to make sure that's an option. We wouldn't want an army of angry, basket-wielding bunnies on our hands.

After I posted about mending the terribly made Madewell sweater on twitter, I got an automated response from Madewell's customer service twitter account asking for more info. I've been generally reluctant to reach out to them (you can look back on some of the other posts about this process for [...]

So I heard from Madewell about the sweaters I've spent all winter mending! And I totally want to show you what they had to say...but first, let's check in on the sweaters (you can see a video version of this on instagram if you want to see some of this [...]

I'm trying to get in the habit of doing a little housekeeping post once a month. The theory is that it will give me a place to run down what's going away, what's coming next, and what's in progress. Plus show off a little non-knitting something or other because we [...]