I hadn't intended to write a pattern for this, but when I posted it on instagram folks were, um, let's just say enthusiastic.  Enthusiastic enough that I might just possibly be convinced to reconsider. But if you want me to do that, I need you to do me a favor.⁠ I've created a mailing list for folks who are Real Damn Sure they'd buy this pattern if I wrote it. If enough folks sign up, I will write the pattern. If I write the pattern, I will send Precisely One Email to the people on the list letting them know [...]

I have a prop shelf in my office. Well, no, I have several prop shelves in my office. But the one that's out and in full view of everyone (as opposed to hidden away in a closet) is full of these hand forms. ⁠ And I think they're actually kind of pretty? Faintly industrial, pleasantly glossy in amongst all that fuzzy yarn and soft paper, gently anatomical but not at all gruesome. But other folks have said they find them unbearably creepy. And I never really got that. Until now. ⁠ But somehow, something about these pictures gives me a [...]

Ahem. Damn.⁠ And again, just for clarity, please mentally file this under 'very unlikely to become a pattern.' Because this is by far the single hardest yarn I've ever tried to photograph in my whole life. And that's before you try and get a kitten involved (black kittens being a bit hard to photograph anyway, and kittens in general not being known for sitting still and taking art direction).⁠ But wow is it cute.⁠ Yarn is Cascade's Luminosa in color 12. And while it is not something I'd work with generally, it is clearly the most suitable thing imaginable to [...]

All I can say is I have a solid black kitten and very little sense of shame. You can probably figure out for yourself what that means this is.⁠ Here's the bit where I say, right from the very beginning, that this one probably won't be an actual pattern, in part because the thought of taking a picture of a wiggly black kitten wearing a piece of black knitting gives me a headache just thinking about it, in part because it may actually pass my own personal ridiculousness threshold. There is the very tiniest possibility that I might maybe possibly [...]

This? This just keeps getting cuter as we go along. And given the cuteness levels that we started out at, that's frankly alarming. I mean the face does wonders, but the ears?  The ears just basically overwhelm any last vestige of self restraint you might have possessed. And I don't even have the decency to apologize for myself.

This? Well since you've seen the owl, I don't think I'll be giving anything away if I tell you that this thing right here is a fox butt. Because of course we need a fox to go with the owl. Well, actually, we need another owl to go with the owl. But a fox too. Oh, what's that you say? You're surprised that I, a grown ass adult human being, a fully vetted member of polite (more or less) society, a person who can vote and get a car loan and enter into legally binding contracts, am spending hours of [...]

The lovely, leafy little hat? The one that's more charming than it has any right to be? Yeah, it's out! And look, I truly do not know why it is so endearing.  It's ridiculously simple.  One quick panel of knitted leaves (which are always delightful but are not exactly the hardest thing in the world to knit), then the rest is stockinette in the round, which is basically auto pilot knitting.  That should, if we're being frank, be almost boring. But somehow, between the inherent charms of the leaves (what is it about knitted leaves, I have seriously never met [...]

As promised, screenshots of the donation you folks helped me send off to the good people over at @popememorialhumanesociety who have done so much to help us with the kittens! We raised Seven Freaking Thousand Dollars because you are all amazing (and because the screen that I thought told me how much the sale had sold didn't update fast enough to keep up with all of you!). But, you know, first a gratuitous picture of a giant kitty! Because she's so much cuter than pesky words... And it's two pictures because for some reason the system wouldn't let me send [...]

Coming soon! This hat is scheduled to come out on Tuesday with the mitts following shortly thereafter. If you want to start your stash dive/yarn hunt before it drops, now's the time. ⁠ I used one skein of Hypothesis Yarns' Tweed DK for the hat in the color Wildcat, and another skein of the same yarn in Royal for the mitts. (That yarn can be hard to come by, but it's in stock last time I looked, so you might be able to grab some if you're quick!) On both pieces, the Tweed DK yarn is held double with a [...]