Oooooooh, remember that lovely goldy/green hat from a few weeks ago? Yeah, so I actually finished it and took it to the beach for a photoshoot earlier this week. But I use the word 'finish' loosely here, because then I spent yesterday doing something spiffy to it. I have a [...]

So I mean yes, working these straight up and down is lovely and tidy and orderly. And I think the very first time you do it, you should probably go with the straight version, because it's the simplest. But once you've played with it just a tiny tiny bit, and [...]

I'm not precisely sure why, but I sort of love showing you what the photo shoots look like when you take even half a step back from the perfectly primped bits that ends up in the final photos.⁠ Maybe it's because so very very much of my life is so [...]

The delightful little ebook with the variations on the stitch I used in Explicate is out! Utter Nonsense and Rampant Nonsense patrons go check your email, it's there waiting for you. Everyone else, you can read more about it here. Anyone in those tiers at any time between now and [...]

Ok, I admit the stripe does actually lend it a fair amount of charm. But you know me, and so you know we're not done yet. We are, in fact, just getting started. I just want it on the record that this next bit is enough fun that it got [...]

Psst, this is going out on Tuesday! Remember the hat? The sweet little hat with the embroidery on it that came out at the very end of January? And remember how I told you I'm naturally inclined to want to play with a zillion different variations of things like that? [...]

I mean I told you this was going to be less than scintillating for the first little while. The wee stripe friend provides more interest than I should probably admit, but it's still very much auto pilot knitting. But the nifty bits are coming. Just as soon as it's off [...]

This will not be terribly interesting. Well, at least not until it's done. It's going to be a plain hat with just one wee tiny stripe up the side to alleviate the monotony. For now. Its day is coming. I super duper pinky swear it'll be pretty darn spiffy when [...]

I'm currently loving folded hems on hats. Folks tend to either think folded hems are Hard & Scary & Fancy, or they shrug and say sure I can do that. And I truly think which camp you fall into has more to do with how your brain is handling life [...]