See those diagonal lines there? Yeah, they're made by slipping a stitch on one row, then working that stitch through the back loop on the next row. Which gives you a column of twisted and elongated stitches which are rather fetching (plus, you know, doing some stuff to make them [...]

Psssst, this is your occasional reminder that the star book is coming down at the end of the month!⁠ Right now, anyone in the Utter Nonsense or Rampant Nonsense tiers on patreon can download the book. On February 1, it comes down and there won't be anywhere to get it [...]

So, we've been talking about embroidering on things to mend them, and we've been talking about patterns where the plan from the beginning is to embroider on them. But there's something else you can do. ⁠ You can totally decide to embroider on a pattern that didn't originally call for [...]

For reasons I cannot adequately explain, much less justify, one of my very favorite things about the envelopes is embroidering the tiny little heart on as a stamp at the end. I fully acknowledge that this may very well amuse only me, that the rest of you may be regarding [...]

So the hat? The embroidered hat? Yeah, it has a lot of ends. Because, well, every piece of yarn you embroider with has two ends, and that's just how yarn works, and I'm not actually cool enough to change the fabric of reality. However. I can give you something else [...]

As promised, Dispatch is back! You can find it on ravelry or payhip. And just before anyone has a chance to ask, yes they open and close, yes you can put things in them! I mean you should know me well enough by now to know I wouldn't pass up [...]

I firmly believe embroidering on your knitting is the closest thing to coloring you can do with fabric. And sometimes? Sometimes a package comes in the mail and it feels exactly like a fresh box of colored pencils. Yarn is Little Skein Anne and everything she does is magic. This [...]

So you know how I said I'd occasionally bring back some of my favorite patterns? Yeah, well this one (Dispatch), has been by far one of the most requested. And I know a whole bunch of folks like to make them to tuck little love notes in for Valentines Day, [...]

Herbs in the garden in January in Maine means we're doomed. But doomed is more fun with herb-y brown butter rice krispie treats than without them, so I might as well have a snack. I made these on stories the other day and a shocking number of you suddenly found [...]