And there we are, done with the knitting and ready to put everything together. Again, the idea here is not that these are proper patterns. Think of them more as what I'd be telling you to do if you sat down beside me and said 'oooooh, cute pencil, I want one' and then I proceeded to spend twenty minutes telling you how to make that happen. Which, honestly, is a danger. I'm notoriously bad at picking up on social cues. But at least here, the only way you're getting the whole excited infodump is if you seek it out. And I'm [...]

Last time we did materials, this time we're talking about the actual knitting. Video walking you through it (plus a couple of charts to get you started) are up here on patreon should you be so inclined!

As I suspected, while I cannot quite manage to get a traditional pattern ready for this one in anything even resembling a timely fashion, I could indeed make a video about it (or rather, three videos about it) wherein we talk materials, knitting, and assembly. If you've ever looked at something I've made, though 'I bet I could do that without a pattern...but I'm just not quite sure where to start...' this is likely what you need to get you going. Videos are up here on patreon now!

I, brave and valiant soul that I am, persevered in the face of innumerable distractions (naps, cats, shiny rocks, pretty flowers, and that glowing rectangle of doom we all carry in our pockets) and actually finished the thing! No really, all the way done, ends woven in and everything. Now to be fair, the thing in question is both small and completely without practical function. But that's true of fully half the things I knit and I don't see any reason to start being bothered about it now. I don't think there's going to be a proper pattern for this [...]