I am, in the finest holiday tradition, about to hibernate for the next two weeks or so. You may imagine me slightly dazed, speckled with inexplicable glitter, cookie sprinkles stuck to my hair, pillow creases on my face, blinking at the sparkly lights, completely devoid of vegetables, completely unsure of [...]

Look, in my defense, I was left unsupervised with a pile of buttons, an icord machine, and an as-of-yet-not-fully-decked Christmas tree. Shenanigans were bound to ensue. Because you can put anything on your tree if you do it with sufficient conviction. Y'all are an astonishingly clever bunch. Having seen this, [...]

If you combine the inexplicable urge to fill my whole tree with stuff I've made this year, the box of buttons I found on the side of the road this fall, and an icord machine you get...a button garland. I'm tickled. Absolutely tickled. Should you wish to do such a thing [...]

Hearts (they're called Palpitation) are done, so it's time to stuff them. Stuffing (or roving), rice, and plastic pellets are the three materials I've used most often to fill projects like this. And my absolute favorite is the plastic pellets.* They're heavier than polyester or wool stuffing, and they don't [...]

Operation Treequest continues! These are Palpitation (in Ontheround's gorgeous yarn and hanging out in a beautiful bowl from Scout + Bean, because damn if I don’t know the coolest people who make the neatest stuff), and they’re heading out later this morning to Rampant Nonsense folks & folks who got [...]

We've been talking about blocking, and it's one of those topics that lends itself to before and after pics. So I want to show you two sets. The first pair you saw last time, and it shows the bits from Shiversome. Start with before: Then after: I'm going to assume [...]

Remember how I said I was going to talk about blocking these? Yeah, well if you want to watch a couple of videos of me talking you through that, you can do that over here (the videos are public, anyone should be able to see them). The gist in blocking [...]

Psst, last call for the retired patterns, I'm taking them down tomorrow (Friday) morning! I sort of love going back through the retired patterns and remembering when I knit them and where I took the photos and what my life looked like when they were the shiny new thing. I [...]

(Very nearly all of) the gauge card sets have been sent on their way, hurtling through the mail system. They went out Monday, and they should start arriving in mailboxes near you any day now. A couple of super local folks may even have already gotten theirs. A few of [...]

Pssst, Shiversome is the next in the ongoing project where I play with this lovely Ontheround yarn this season. I'll be doing a more formal post about it (I want to talk about blocking all the little bits) here in a day or two, but I figured no one would [...]