See, now it looks way more like there was a coherent plan all along, and not like I dropped a marker and it bled all over my knitting. Or at least I think so.  I suppose it's possible everyone else hates it and I'm the only one smitten. Though really, at this point, I'm mostly concerned with whether I like it. If I knit something and someone else hates it, I'm ok with that.  I'm mostly just here to amuse myself!

This should work out just fine. I mean at this stage, it looks rather like someone took a marker to perfectly serviceable knitting. But give it a few more rounds and things will start to look a bit more intentional. See? There's totally a plan in there somewhere...

So the new yarn from earlier means new swatches.  I have a plan, and I need to do some fiddling about with yarn to see if it will work. I mean some version of it will work.  Some version of it always works.  Eventually.  It's just a matter of finding the right version and the right yarns. None of these are quite it.  That first cable is a little too fiddly.  And the first two yarn pairings are good in theory, but not quite right for this idea. This next cable is much closer, but the floofy yarn is far [...]

Well then, that will do nicely.  I mean I still need to go out and give it a proper photo shoot, but I'm really rather pleased with the hat itself. It's off with testers, and assuming no one gets hit by a meteor or felled by the plague or otherwise messed about with, the pattern should be out next week. Now, the trick is to make sure I actually wear this and don't somehow imbue it with all the various fretting I was doing while I knit it (someone tell me that's not just me, I can't be the only [...]

The yarn gods have smiled upon me. I ordered both of these online, having not seen either in person before, and just sort of hoped that the pink would match up well enough.  And it does, it really really does. And then, in an even more unlikely reach for glory, I ordered this gray in the hope that it would match with the yellow already in the stash.  And behold, it totally totally does. Now, this was all fairly safe, because the chances that I wouldn't love the yarns (even if they didn't pair up as I hoped) was basically [...]

And, just like that, it's done. Where by done you take me to mean the knitting bits are done. There are still ends to be woven in and blocking to be done. But for folks asking, yes, it will be a pattern.  And yes, it will be out quite soon (because apparently I'm not the only one who needs the distraction of some mellow knitting right now). Do the mailing list thing if you want me to hear from me when it's out (likely later this month, you know, assuming there are no exciting catastrophes around these parts).  You have [...]

It should be boring.  It really should. And perhaps to some, it would be.  But for me, right now, it's just what I need. The whole thing where the speckles are pooling up together on one side, leaving the other side fairly speckle free, is really about all the excitement I can handle right now. And that's totally ok.

This went really well last time, so let's do it again...⁠ ⁠ On the last pattern (the wee little eggs), I made a handful of copies of the pattern available to folks who could really use a new pattern, but the Exciting Global Catastrophe had messed with their household finances in such a way that it just wasn't in the budget. And I said if anyone had a little extra room in their budget and wanted to donate a few copies, we could make that happen.⁠ ⁠ And the response was overwhelming. Everyone was delightful. Lots of people donated. Lots [...]

Do you remember back in early February when I started these?  Early February, which was (I checked) a mere 8 weeks ago? Not the 8 months it feels like?  Yeah.  I know.  Me neither.  But I'm pretty sure it happened.  And since the tiny sprocket for whom the hats were intended has made his debut, it seems only fair to bring out the pattern (even if things are super weird right now). The pattern is Exigencies, it's up on ravelry, and you can take ten percent off with the code DISTRACT ME for the next few days. Now, let's get [...]