So I knit a mini hat to take the instructional photos for the Snowday pattern. (Why yes, yes I was that obnoxious kid who did extra math problems in gradeschool, why do you ask?) And I suspect one or two of you might possibly want to make it. So I wrote up a couple quick notes to let you do that if you want! It is, and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough, absolutely not a stand alone pattern. You need the Snowday pattern for it to make sense. It will seem (and indeed is) incomplete without the stuff in [...]

Ahem, just in case anyone is wondering what it looks like if you pull back a few feet, the pictures that end up looking like this... look like this from a bit farther back... Yes it's cold (it's January in Maine, I was delighted it was in the 30s not the teens). Yes it's...um...let's go with 'briny,' that seems like a fair way to describe the smell of seagull and wet seaweed. And yes, yes there is still quite a lot of sandy, gritty muck on my boots. Worth it though! Now for the real question, anyone else smitten with [...]

Snowday is out on both Ravelry and Payhip. And oh, oh it feels weird to try and do my job right now, because everything is on fire and all I want to do is hide. But hiding is not an option, so we shall be loud instead. So here's what we're going to do...I'm going to say 'hey, this pattern is out,' because that's my job and I have to do my job to survive. And then I'm going to say it's 25% off with the code FUCK ICE for the next few days (Rampant Nonsense folks get it for [...]

Psst, wanna learn about turned hems? If you do, I wrote up a little guide to them. Should you wish to peruse such a thing, wander over this way. I used turned hems on both of these hats (they'll be out next, after the snowflake hat), and it's quickly become one of my absolute favorite ways to start a hat. It's tidy (all stockinette, no curl), it's warm (double layer on the chilly ear bits), it makes good use of yarn (because dammit, one skein isn't quite enough for the whole hat, but if I use a different yarn for [...]

Before we start, I want to acknowledge that literally none of us are ok right now. Not even a little bit. If you're in America, you're watching your government murder people in the street and strip you of your bodily autonomy and take away what little access to healthcare you have and raise the prices of everything you have to buy to survive while we all hold our breath and wonder if we're actually in civil war yet or just flirting with one. And if you're in the rest of the world, you're watching an evil, incompetent man send the [...]

One, cute hat, nearly done, out soon: Two, ICE are a bunch of evil, fascist fucks. If you work for them, you are a bad person. Your children and grandchildren are ashamed of you. If your friends or family work for them (or support them), it's completely appropriate (and I would argue morally correct) to cut them out of your life. Because there should be consequences for being an evil, fascist fuck. And social stigma seems like a good place to start.

Ahem, that will do nicely yes.

I, for absolutely legitimate work related reasons, simply had to make a tiny version of the hat. So I could take instructional photos of it for the pattern you understand. Completely reasonable. Which of course means I need to embroider on it. Again, for completely legitimate educational purposes. Yup, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Now I just need to pick which color to use...

I, for reasons having largely to do with 'it's stockinette, I got distracted, my hands were on auto pilot' ended up doing something a bit unexpected at the brim of this hat. And I think I sort of like it? In that 'oooh, I should play with this more so I can figure out how it behaves and do something with it' sort of way. It looks nifty on both sides, and it's usefully stretchy in a way that makes it suitable for the bottoms of hats, and I'm pretty sure I can play with it in such a way [...]