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 yarn. Meaning you can use two colors (or two strands of the same color if that's more your jam. But...well...I couldn't think of any functional reason you couldn't do that with four colors (cough, or any even number of colors when you come right down to it, she said, in [...]

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 get groceries & cook dinner & do the dishes. We're watching our national hatred of women get cast into laws that will ruin lives & get people killed. (And yes, it's not only women who can get pregnant or need abortions. I use that language because I promise you, the [...]

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 and in full agreement.) Meanwhile, may I suggest that if you can, you donate to your local abortion fund or to one in an area you care about? I've linked to an organization that lets you find resources in your area that could very much use your help. Sending money [...]

Yeah. Yeah fine. I do indeed want something slightly different.⁠ Which means that by the time you see this picture, this yarn will have been yoinked out and even possibly knit back up into the next iteration.⁠ Because what I really want is a little turned hem down there on the bottom, not ribbing. ⁠ Because it will be so lovely, and I want to try it and what the hell is the point of knitting your own things if you don't make them exactly the way you want them!

I...I think I want something slightly different. Not a different yarn, the yarn is just what I want. But a slightly different brim. So now I believe it's traditional to knit another inch or so to make sure I really do want to change it, and only then to rip it out and start over. Which I admit, does seem a bit inefficient. But it's a time honored practice, and who am I to question it. You need to be really really sure before you rip...and the only way to be really sure is to have more information to go [...]

Yup, as predicted. Smashing.⁠ The yarn is all smooth and round and just generally delightful.⁠ Sit tight, cast on is imminent!

Well. Well then. You may expect that you will be seeing more of this. Quite a bit more. This yarn does exactly what I want yarn to do right now. And when that happens, well, you just have to embrace it.⁠ Yarn is Madeline Tosh's Triple Twist in Red Fox (that's the gray one) and Citrus (that's the orange one). ⁠And I need to check one thing real quick before I cast on...but I'm pretty sure it will be smashing...⁠

This is the sort of thing I was talking about yesterday (wander over to yesterday's post to see what I mean). This is a super fun way to handle the ends on this hat (well, this is my first pass at it where I'm just checking if the idea is viable, the one I actually do for real will be all tidy and neat at the top and end in a tassel at the bottom and just generally be a monument to orderliness, but you knew that already). It's pretty and fun and I love it and it makes me [...]

Let's talk about this. Yes, there will be a pattern! But...⁠   I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about what is and isn't feasible to put into a single pattern.⁠ Because wow oh wow is this one of those projects where my inclination is to add in an absurd number of variations and options and experiments. I could very easily turn this into six months of work and fifty pages of content.⁠ And I would have SO MUCH FUN DOING IT! That's actually my brain's happy place. I love nothing more than taking the time and space [...]