Brioche increases are satisfying. Thumb gussets are satisfying. Brioche thumb gussets are a thing of wonder and delight and just the motivation a person needs to cast on the second half of the pair. P.S. The hat comes out tomorrow, make sure you're on the mailing list if you want me to send you a coupon when it goes live!

The piece on top is the mitt, not yet blocked. The piece on the bottom is the hat, already blocked.⁠ ⁠See how they're different colors even though they're knit from the exact same skeins of yarn? That's because a little of the dye came off the turquoise yarn and landed on the white yarn when I soaked the hat.⁠ So, let's talk about that.⁠ First, in this case, it's not a problem. I love how the hat looks, that's how the mitt will look after it gets soaked and blocked, so it's totally, totally fine.⁠  But, I can think of [...]

What do you think, is it reversible? This is the inside.  Previous post shows the outside.  I suspect it's suspiciously close to reversible (most brioche is)!

Look, I just can't help it.  If there's yarn leftover, I want to have matching mitts. Which really, this is not a great hardship.  You could even say it's rather nifty. Because winter will come again (I say, as I look out on the bright summer skies and parched summer grass) and when it does, I will want to have as many ways to stave off the darkness as possible. And really cute knits can sometimes help with that.

There we go, all fixed, and totally worth the time to go ahead and do it right. Usual spiel applies.  It will be a pattern (testers are already done with it, all I need to do is make myself go outside in the heat to take photos), almost certainly out later this month.  Do the mailing list thing below if you want to hear when it drops.  And there's oodles of yarn left, so there will be mitts to match!   [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]

So we spent this month talking a whole bunch about socks (which fine, I realize is odd, but hopefully at best helpful and at worst harmless). And we put a whole bunch of them on sale over the course of the month. But, on the off chance you missed class one day (or the socks you most wanted to make weren't on the syllabus), I think we should end summer school with a review session.⁠ ⁠Use the code SUMMER on ravelry to take 15% off any of my available sock or slipper patterns from now through the end of the [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about socks with ridiculous party tricks, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Diluvian, they are reversible, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Thursday July 30. Now, I know all socks are technically reversible in the sense of there not being much in the way of dire consequences if you put them on inside out.  But these look equally lovely either way, so you won't run the risk of looking [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about socks with ridiculous party tricks, and for the rest of the week I'll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Indomitable, they are proof that cuffed socks are just delightful, and they're 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Wednesday July 29. So cuffing your socks shouldn't be amusing. It really shouldn't.  And yet somehow it is.  Especially these, where the sock is reversible so you can wear them inside out and cuffed or right side out and uncuffed and [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about socks with ridiculous party tricks, and for the rest of the week I'll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Cleave, they are about as close as I come to messing with the fundamental structure of socks, and they're 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Tuesday July 28. Look, I told you I'm a sock traditionalist.  I don't normally stray far from that path.  But this has just a tiny little tweak (instead of working a heel flap and [...]