Shapely
These...these do not look right when you are done with the knitting. They don't. They really really really don't. You have to do some stuff to get them stuffed and shaped. Bonus points, the process will give you a chance to say 'cleft' a whole bunch of times. Check out this set of videos over on instagram if you want to see what this looks like as you're working on it!
Monthly reminder
Monthly reminder, abortions are good, and everyone should have access to them! Alas, in the US, a lot of us don't. Iowa's 6 week ban just went into effect, making it the 18th state with a total or near total ban (AL, AR, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MS, ND, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, WV). That means more than 1/3 of the US population can't get vital medical care in their home state. Here's what that looks like (from the interactive map on Guttmacher): For more about the ban, see this post on instagram or this [...]
We have a winner!
We have a winner! As part of the (now concluded) return of the retired patterns, I asked you folks which patterns I should bring back and add to the year round collection. This is most decidedly not carefully designed or rigorous poll. It is very much a 'hey, I chucked the question up in a couple places, and here's what folks said.' But this is for sure one of the things we can just let run on vibes. And the vibes say we need these buddies back. Which means I shall shortly: 1) go root about in the bin [...]
More reasonable
Ok, so we started with six, but that really was too many to pick from (most places don't let me do a poll with six choices). So I thought a bit about what would be involved in bringing each of them back, and looked at what the general trend in the comments on patreon and ig was, and narrowed it down to three. We've got Concoction (bottles), Peached (apple & peach), and Nestled (leaf babies). I want to bring one of those three back. They'd all need new photos, but not much in the way of reknitting (so they're all [...]
Unabated
The slipper phase continues unabated. This one starts the same way as our yellow cabled friend from a little while ago (said yellow cabled friend is off with testers and should be out after the urchins). And yes, yes there absolutely will be a phase where it looks like a misshapen footbag. So there's that to look forward to. I'm sure you'll all be waiting with bated breath. But first, more of this...
Maybe we keep one…
Every time the retired patterns come back for a couple days, I find myself thinking 'damn some of these are cute, maybe we should move one of them over to the regular rotation.' So I pulled out The Big Box Of Doom and pulled out some contenders. I suspect I could be convinced to bring at least one of these back some time later this year. In no particular order, we've got: Glazed (the donuts with beads for sprinkles) Peached (the peach, and also, somewhat confusingly, the apple) Foxed (the fox, buddies with Chilled and Tufted) Foghorn and Belfry (the [...]
They’re back!
I know you folks miss some of the older patterns. And I know I cannot quite manage to have all of them up all of the time. So, as a compromise, I bring most of the retired patterns back for a few days twice a year. This week is the week, so if there's something you've been missing, now's your chance! Most (not every single one, but most) of the retired patterns are back on both ravelry and payhip from July 22, 2024-July July 28, 2024. They’ll come down sometime the morning of the 29th, I can’t say exactly when. [...]
Creative blocking
I mean you can't really say I'm not committed to blocking. I've even put these absurdities on the internet for all to see. But really, it's a funny shape, and this is the best way to block it. Regardless of how absurd it looks in the moment...
Continuing shape
The very shapely shape continues to be a shape. You can watch it be shapeish over here...
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