Any chance you have some extra yarn/needles/supplies you want send to a good home? Because I have an idea... The good folks of MainTransNet (you may remember them from the donation you helped make last month) are setting up a queer youth craft club (details on @mtnyouth's recent posts).   [...]

Let's continue last week's discussion on needles. The needle question I get most often (actually, the knitting question I get most often) is...what size needles should I use.⁠ ⁠ And some of you are totally going to get mad about it, but...I don’t know. ⁠ ⁠I’m sorry. I’m not being [...]

So, I am absolutely scandalously reusing my own work here folks. As part of the prep for the new website (which will be up in mere weeks!), I'm writing The Long Versions of answers to questions I get all the time so I can put them all in one place [...]

I have certain...proclivities. Put me outside (preferably somewhere shady and not too hot please) and leave me alone for a little while and it's all but certain I'll pick up a feather, a pebble, a pinecone, a seashell, a bit of moss, or a nifty stick, depending on where you've [...]

Hey Brain, what are the chances you remember how to do brioche?⁠ Not good, Fingers, not good at all.⁠ But Brain, you LIKE brioche. You find it soothing. You find it pleasant.⁠ Well yes, Fingers, I did. But I haven't done a lick of it in at least two years. [...]

Look, I FULLY admit it would be wildly impractical. I absolutely cannot store all of my scraps on knitted spools. My scraps fill two sizeable plastic bins, and storing them like this would substantially increase their volume (not to mention that knitting that many spools would quickly become tedious).⁠   [...]

Whose turn is it to supervise me and make sure I don't get up to nonsense if left unattended? Because you see, I find myself thinking 'there's no particular reason *not* to knit a little thimble to go with the spools.'   Now, to be perfectly frank, I probably won't [...]

I mean yes, sure, you CAN wrap the tiny spools with scraps of leftover yarn (or thread, or ribbon, or whatever). And that's what I did at first. But if you happen to maybe just *have* a bit of gorgeous silk embroidery floss just kind of lounging, casually, over on [...]

Am I still besotted with the little spools? I mean it would seem so. ⁠Do I have an unreasonable urge to knit enough of them to have a whole rainbow of thread colors? Alas, also yes. ⁠Will that make the urge subside for a moment? Your guess is as good [...]

I truly believe that just about everything you knit will benefit from blocking. And yes, yes this totally includes tiny things. The tiny things block pretty much the same way as bigger things (just faster), but there is enough confusion out there over how to block stuff in general that [...]