Ok, let's talk about the guts of these.⁠ There are two basic ways to make knitted fabric have shape. Either you do it with increases & decreases (or other fabric manipulation), or you do it with a teeny tiny bit of brute force. For the potion bottles, we're doing a bit of both. You give the fabric more or less the right shape (round vs square) to start, then you rely on a little bit of help to shape it from the inside.⁠ That means you need something you can shove in your bottle. Which sounds a bit daunting and [...]

You realize this is all your fault, right (the collective you, not so much you personally)?  I was perfectly content to knit one single teeny tiny pointy hat, inflict this indignity upon Miss Fizzy, laugh at her perfectly justified outrage, deal with the bloody gouges she dealt out as retribution, and go on with my life.  But you marvelous people made it clear that your lives would not be the same if I did not share this with the world. So, since I am both fairly agreeable and naturally inclined to such nonsense, succumbed.  I knit a few more.  Then [...]

Ahem...if you happened to have signed up for the super-secret, one-time-only, pointy hat mailing list, go check your email. ⁠ And if you don't happen to have signed up for it, don't fret! The pattern will be available to everyone on Thursday. You know, assuming I don't die from an absolute overabundance of cute before then. Which is more of a danger than you might think!

I am doing a sneaky. I am doing a sneaky with the good folks over at Gauge Dyeworks, and I am absolutely dying to tell you about it. But I can't just yet. ⁠ It is, in fact, going to be weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks until I can show you more. But if I have to sit here, filled with excitement and glee and longing to tell you all about our nefarious plans, well then you have to suffer just a tiny bit too.⁠ Look at this amazing tiny blip of glee...and just imagine what we're going [...]

Here is your absolutely shameless reminder that it's starting to feel like fall for at least some of you, and that if you'd like to go on a little nature walk and collect some acorn caps, you can have a handful of these delightful little things finished up in an afternoon. Seriously, even if you do the knitted cap (instead of using a real acorn's cap), they are still by far the quickest project I've ever done.⁠ Now, there is a substantial risk you'll end up wanting to knit dozens of them, and will take a wee bit longer than [...]

So general Q&A sort of stuff...⁠ Yes, it will be a pattern (really, unless I explicitly say otherwise, you can always assume it will be a pattern, since that's you know, how I keep the kittens in catnip)! As always, the way to hear about that is to be on the mailing list.⁠ Yes, there will be several different bottle shapes in the pattern (because look, some potions simply must be in round bottles and some in square and some in tall and some in short, I don't make the rules but you can bet I'll follow them when it [...]

In a previous post, I told you you really can not say I'm sloppy with my blocking. I'm going to go ahead and say that you also can not in all fairness say that I am insufficiently committed to the tiny thing photo shoots.⁠ That's me, at my favorite local tree stump (you know, the one in the graveyard, the one that's all covered in moss and toadstools) shortly after daybreak, with a basket of gourds and a pile of pointy hats (plus, you know, a teeny tiny little treat for the folks who signed up for the super-secret, one-time-only, [...]

Ok, did I make you wait long enough? I think I made you wait long enough. That wee pink blobbly? The one some folks were concerned was a bit more...ah...anatomical than my usual knits?⁠ Uh huh. Here we are.⁠ Not that it's not ridiculous (because a two inch tall knitted potion bottle is nothing if not ridiculous). But it is for sure not a body part.

There are a lot of things you can say about me.⁠ You can say I'm lazy (also pronounced "I put a high value on leisure time and so make a point to take a lot of it"). You can say I'm greedy (also pronounced "if I don't value my time and skill, why on earth would I expect anyone else to do so"). And you can say I like a lot of absurd nonsense (yeah, no, that one's pronounced pretty much exactly like that).⁠ But you damn well can not say that I am careless about how I block my [...]