Seasonal Nonsense
Yup. Yup we're at this point in the year again. Because look, it's cold and dark and things feel grim. But for whatever reason, trapping sunbeams and making them dance helps a tiny bit. Just a heads up in case you happen to be new around here. I do this most every winter, and I must, alas, be very firm that I'm not teaching anyone how to do it. It's one of my 'oh god fuck the endless darkness' coping techniques, and teaching things is work, and I truly do not have the mental fortitude to get work feelings all [...]
Sky dandruff
It's snowing. It's snowing, and I don't approve of it one bit. And I am TRYING to force myself to be jolly about it (hence the snowbuddy here being all seasonal and festive and adorable), but it is not notably effective at the moment. The fact that neither of the primary heating systems in my house have worked at any point this winter and that we do not know when they will work again is not helping (yes, we're working on it, all the parts are on order, but the supply chain problems/labor shortages are a nightmare, we're safe, our [...]
One down
Ahem. I'm pleased! Now, allow me to offer a few general notes, because I'm like that and can never ever ever stop the barrage of words. 1) Yes! Pattern soon! This will almost certainly be the first pattern of the new year, which means almost certainly January or February. But the world is weird and scary right now, so I can't tell you a firm date. Do the mailing list thing (link in my profile, click this picture) if you want to be sure to hear. 2) Yarn is from @gaugedyeworks. It's amazingly nifty, astonishingly carefully dyed yarn that does [...]
Nature trash
To the folks who occasionally ask some version of 'wait, are you telling me you just have a pile of rocks and sticks and pine cones and other nature trash out in your office All The Time?!?' I say yes! Yes I do! I have it out all the time because I use it more days than not, and it would be silly to drag all that out and put it away every time I needed it. I have an old bench from Target (meant to go in the front hall for changing shoes but I totally stole it because [...]
Abortion is healthcare
I'm so tired of listening to people argue that, because I have a uterus, I'm not really a person. I'm just an incubator. It's bullshit. Abortion is healthcare, and anyone who wants or needs one should be able to get one. So let's pay for some fucking abortions. For the next little while, everything in my ravelry and payhip shops is 50% off with the code ABORTION IS HEALTHCARE. And I'll be donating at least the next $1,000 I make to Lilith Fund (if enough of you are into this, we'll do even more, but I know I can cover [...]
As promised
Ahem. See? See I told you it was unspeakably nifty. And I mean yes, it will be Even More unspeakably nifty once I've blocked it and fiddled with it a little bit, but that's totally normal and absolutely to be expected. I've yet to meet knitting that didn't benefit from a bit of a soak and primp. But wow is this enough to prove that good things are on the way! As always, yes it totally will be a pattern. But first...first I need to see about willing a couple of other variations of this hat into being...because options [...]
Happy buttons
This project is hitting every single happy button in my brain. It's mellow enough that I do not have to think about it at all. It's pretty enough that I love it. And it's forcing me to accept randomness and eschew structure in a way that feels somehow...beneficial, without actually throwing my tidy little order muppet soul into too much distress. Which really, is a lot to get out of a hat! This will be one of the first patterns that comes out in the new year, but I can't tell you exactly when (I don't know if you've [...]
As is apparently traditional…
So, it's Thanksgiving week (in the US, I get that it's not the same everywhere). Which traditionally means Shopping Extravaganzas. But, eh, I'm not really feeling the extravaganza thing. I'm certainly not feeling like leaving the house and breathing other people's air. I'm kind of feeling like staying home and spoiling my pets and drinking hot chocolate. But, I know a whole bunch of folks like to stock up on patterns this week, and I want to make that as easy as possible for anyone who is feeling so inclined (bonus points for all this stuff being online only and [...]
Frosty
Wanna see what getting the pattern pictures looks like? I kinda love showing off the behind the scenes stuff (it can feel a tiny bit strange and lonely doing all this all by myself, showing you some of the odder bits helps somehow). Plus you seem to like to see it, so let's do it! For the snowmen, I got up early, got my kit together (snowmen, hats/scarves, twigs for arms, museum putty for posing, tiny repair kit for field surgery, camera, spare battery, reflector, step stool for my butt, other step stool for the knitting/camera, and something to tote [...]
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