I am, for sure, at *some* point going to do a 'oh, hey, look, stitches on top of stitches!' project. But right now all I want to do is get swatches and swatches and swatches in my hands and on my needles so i can get a feel for how different kinds of yarn look on each other. Which is super fun! I really enjoy it! But also it does not lead to quick pattern production. So I'll be over here swatching if you need me. And I'll just have to trust that it'll be worth waiting for. I suspect [...]

These fell out of my scraps bin. They go together perfectly. I have No Freaking Idea what they are or who they're by.⁠ Nor do I have enough to do the whole project.⁠ So they shall forever be memorialized as the perfect mystery swatch that cannot ever come to fruition.⁠ Please tell me you, too, have a perfect mystery yarn that haunts your dreams. Make me feel less alone.

This is your reminder that, one next week, I'll be sending the mailing list info on how to get the mitts for free if you've knit the matching hat!⁠ ⁠ All the details are over here, but the short version works like this. When I write to the mailing list to let them know the mitts are out, I'll have a link in that email to a little form you can fill out.⁠ If you fill out that form with your email address and a link to where you shared a picture of your hat on either ravelry or instagram, [...]

I'm firmly in the 'more ideas than motivation' stage of things right now. ⁠ ⁠Which is both super fun...⁠Because running around going '*I* *have* *an* *IDEEEEAAAAA*' is really kind of delightful!⁠ And super damn overwhelming...Because I know each of these ideas could turn into something amazing if only I had the energy, organizational skills, and general drive to do the massive amount of work that stands between idea and a really cool finished project. But wow do I have more ideas than I do focus.⁠ So for now, for now I'm fiddling around with a whole bunch of different things, [...]

My brain is doing the thing. The thing where it finds a little nugget of an idea and then spins around with it for a while like a tiny little cyclone and nothing else happens for a while until either the idea plays itself out or something else comes along to distract me. And sometimes this is fun! This is how literally every big project I've ever done has started! The whirring feeling of I Have An IDEA is really quite delicious. And sometimes it's annoying as hell and I cannot get any actual work done until the idea sputters [...]

First things first, this hat is out today. It's called Decorum. And you can take 10% off with the code WELL BEHAVED. Now, for the fun bits! You absolutely do not have to wear it with the points up. You can, in fact, tuck those points in with two fingers and about five seconds of fiddling. And I will totally also show you how it looks with the points tucked in (all sculptural and smooth and like something a respectable grownup would wear)! But I? Well I fear I may be inclined to wear it with the points out. Because [...]

Pattern delayed on account of 'it feels weird to Do A Capitalism while World War III breaks out.' So let's talk about that. Here's the deal. I am Really Damn Lucky that I can afford to say 'I don't feel great shouting about a hat today, let's wait a bit.' A whole bunch of people in this industry depend on new patterns (or yarns, or books, or other projects) to pay the rent & buy groceries & keep the heat on. I do too! But I'm lucky to have enough of a buffer that I can delay in response to [...]

Did I take the wee little hatchlings out to the woods with me the last time I was out and about? Yup.⁠ Do I regret the choices that have led me to this place in life?⁠ Nope. Not really at all.⁠ Now, my goal for these is to have them out for you some time around the beginning of spring in these parts.*⁠ The pattern's all done and ready to go. I just have to get outside and do a photo shoot. Well...I also have to do an extensive survey of which easter candy will be cutest at said photo [...]

This is reminder number three thousand seventy two that it's better to set your thumb stitches aside on a piece of scrap yarn (rather than a spare needle) if at all possible. ⁠ Because you really do want to try your mitts on at about this point, just to make sure you've made enough room for your thumb. And the yarn (which curves! like how your knitted fabric curves) will do a much better job of letting you gauge the fit than a needle (which does not curve! which will, in fact, distort your fabric and feel like knives when [...]