Was that a whole lot of work and bother for a very simple result? I mean possibly? But really, you can say that about pretty much any thing you knit by hand. And honestly, that was literally the first time I'd done a turned hem, it took me about thirty [...]

Ok, so here's the actual joining bit. Look at the wooden needle. See how it's got rather a lot of stitches on it? And how they're jammed up awfully close to each other? Yup, well that's the sets of stitches we picked up in the earlier post. One from the [...]

This is two views of the same thing. I'm taking the stitches freed up by my provisional cast on (on a metal needle) and the live stitches already on my needles (on a metal needle) and interspersing them (on the wooden needle). I've got two different kinds of needles just [...]

First things first. Forthwith is out today, and it's 10% off on ravelry and payhip with the code PROMPTLY. ⁠ ⁠This project wins the prize for 'longest time from cast on to pattern release.' Which is frankly a shame, because it's an absolute delight.⁠ So much of a delight that [...]

See, I told you, appropriately confident. I did a provisional cast on, knit until I had about double the depth of fabric I wanted for the turned hem, then freed up the end of my provisional cast on and yoinked it. As I did, it slipped out of my work, [...]

So remember how I wasn't loving the ribbing on the orange and gray hat ('the' orange and gray hat I say, as if I didn't have, um, several things that could reasonably be called orange and gray hats within a few dozen feet of me at this very moment). Right, [...]

Pssst, the first of these two patterns is scheduled to come out Tuesday (you know, assuming the world doesn't do one of those things where the news or a more personal catastrophe makes it just too fundamentally awful to even think about bringing out something as inconsequential as a knitting [...]

See, this is the sort of stuff I love to play with. The hat with the embroidery on it from a few days ago (scroll back a bit if you didn't see it, it's rather smashing)? Yeah, each one of the columns of embroidery in that uses two strands of [...]

Folks I'm going to be honest with you. I do not know how to Do A Capitalism under these circumstances. Everyone I know enough to like & give a crap about is walking around exhausted & shell shocked & just completely out of reserves. And yet, we still need to [...]

This is your occasional reminder that I am pro abortion. Not just pro choice (though yes, of course, that too). Pro abortion. Because the alternatives are ghastly. And if that's a problem for you, I cordially invite you to see yourself out. (I know most of you are well aware [...]