Oh. Oh my. Oh my yes.⁠ I've been noodling around on the edges of 'I should stitch some stuff on some knitting' for quite some time now and just never *quite* pulled together the right combination of yarns/stitches/motivation/energy all at the same time.⁠ But now? Well now I think I've got all four lined up pretty much just right.⁠ If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go cast this on while this rare confluence of events prevails. ⁠ We'll do yarn info a bit later on in the process, don't worry, you'll be seeing more of this as it grows. [...]

Do I have a Significant Surplus of inexpensive, middling quality, cotton sweaters that I live in around the house during the half of the year when it's not either freezing or roasting?⁠ Yup.⁠ Do I have an intense longing for the details of hand knit sweaters and an absolute lack astonishing amount of fortitude it takes to knit a sweater?⁠ Yup on both counts.⁠ Do I have a shocking number of bits of yarn and a tendency to...poke at things to make them suit me better?⁠ Clearly.⁠ I think I am in big big trouble here folks.⁠ That was easy [...]

For reasons that elude me, some of you like to see what taking photos for patterns looks like. So since this was Fancy Schmancy Rolly Cart's first trip to this beach, I thought I'd bring you along! I've been doing this for a while, and I tend to bring a fair amount of kit with me, especially when I head to this beach. It's an hour away, so if I forget something, I either do without it or come back another day. The list starts with the knits, then the props to display them (today that's two hats, two pairs [...]

I...I'm feeling a little embroidery project coming on.⁠ I rather enjoy embroidering on my knits these days. And I've got a cotton sweater that I threw in dyepot one day last summer, and then left lay out on the rocks in the garden for a few days sort of by accident, and the sun/rain did all sorts of neat things with the color. ⁠ And now I want to doodle all over it with string.⁠ Because yeah, sure, why not. Seems as good a thing to do with my time on this earth as anything else.⁠ Though if check with [...]

My phone decided it's tired of being a phone (I hear you buddy, I'm tired of being a human) & will instead be an expensive & not very functional paperweight. I'm working a fix, but expect I'll be less around for a while on spaces like instagram and twitter and ravelry. Email always has been and still remains the most reliable way to find me!

Let's do a little giveaway! I've got a spare skein of each of the lovely yarns from Gauge Dye Works that I used for my Stochastic pattern, and I want to send them out to new homes!⁠ ⁠ Stochastic a fun little pattern where you can either put together your own yarn combos (there's oodles of info on how in the pattern, don't worry, it's not hard) or you can use Clever Yarn That Knows Secret Tricks and does the work for you (that's what the lovely Gauge Dye Works made for us). All the color change bits are all [...]

Sigh. This. Again. And, once again, I shall simply be transcribing the twitter thread with any truly egregious typos corrected and links/photos added in as needed. Because the format of tweets and the format of blog posts are slightly different and trying to jam one into the format of the other is a needless headache. You can see the original thread over here. ** Oh look. The 'I'm scandalized you'd charge for your work, scandalized I tell you, how very dare you' folks are at it. Again. Because of course. And to be frank, I don't have the energy for [...]

Ok, important bits up top because we are all frazzled and attention spans are short. Hatched is out today.  It's up on both ravelry and payhip, and the code PECK will take 10% off for the first few days it's out. Now look I am not operating under any delusions. I know full well that these are absurd and serve absolutely no practical purpose whatsoever. Not one of you actually needs these. At all. However, I also know that they fill my weary soul with a tiny spark of joy. And right now, I am hoarding those little sparks.  I [...]

So, this brings us up to today.⁠ Well, more or less. All the pictures I've been showing you of these to date have been from the June 2021 reemergence (yes, yes this is starting to sound like a brood of cicadas, I fully realize it). I probably owe you a current picture of the whole pile here at some point soon. But I have Two Hats and Two Pairs of Mitts and Two Completed Patterns.⁠ I have the pattern files heading to testers.⁠ The knits are about to get blocked.⁠ And next week, I'm going out to wander off somewhere [...]