I finally have something on my needles that I like. This is most assuredly not it. This is one of the half a dozen or so swatches I went through before I got to the version I liked. Since I currently can't pay attention to save my life (and I've heard a few things from some of you that suggest that you may be in a similar state), I thought perhaps I'd show you all the steps and swatches that happen between 'hmm, that might work' and 'by jove I think I've got it,' and talk about the process a [...]

I don't know about you, but I have the attention span of a gnat right now. ⁠ I feel like this shouldn't really be affecting me. I work from home anyway, as does my spouse, and we don't have kids. I am queen of staying home under normal circumstances. But somehow...somehow this just feels really fraught. I can't concentrate, I can't settle in to work, I find myself just sort of bouncing around like a pinball.⁠ So I'm swatching. Because I need to keep my hands busy, and maybe it will help. I hope you're finding something that helps you [...]

Stuck at home? (Please please please tell me you're staying home if you possibly can...I will totally think less of you if you're still going out if you don't absolutely have to.) Need to do something to fill the hours?  Let's see who can find the most absurd tiny chore to make being at home feel satisfying and productive. No really, there is something you've been meaning to do.  Take fifteen minutes and do it.  You'll feel better. Today, I'm delinting my favorite socks. Seriously.  I bought a six pack of these things (there's something to be said for having [...]

The hat should have been enough.  And if knitting the hat once wasn't enough, surely knitting it twice would satisfy that itch.  But somehow, no.  No it was not.  And so I found myself with matching mitts. Now, I'm certainly not complaining.  Both the stitch and the yarn continue to be more fun than they have any right to be.  And goodness knows I wear mitts more than you might suspect.  So this is not something I'm sad about. But I am rather amazed that something so mellow managed to hold my attention for so long.  Perhaps it's the power [...]

So look. Before you go about adorning your eggs with woolly bits, you need to get the eggy bits out of there. The traditional way of doing this involves making a tiny hole on the top, a slightly larger hole on the bottom, sticking a toothpick or nail up in the egg to break apart the yolk, then using your mouth on the little hole to blow the raw egg out of the big hole. And that's totally what I did as a kid.  And I might still be able to bring myself to do that to a bright white [...]

So I already have something of a reputation for being fond of blocking.  I'll assume you already know the lecture on how it's magic and it's not that hard and your knitting is totally worth it. So instead I'll give the lecture on how it's good problem solving practice. On how it will encourage you to use the stuff you already have in new ways. On how, at the very least, it will confuse the heck out of anyone who catches sight of what you're doing.  Which really? Totally a bonus!

Once upon a time, years and years and years ago, somebody left a weird comment on a blog post or maybe a tweet. ⁠ I'd posted a picture of the second of something...second sock, second mitt, I don't even remember at this point. And they had this whole /extensive/ theory about how I hadn't actually knit two of the thing. They though I was just carefully taking extra pictures of the one single sock/mitt that I had actually knit and timing them To Fool Everyone For My Own Nefarious Reasons.⁠ It was...intense.⁠ And while Now Me would just laugh (I [...]

Look...all I can say is they're awfully quick. These are all all of an inch and a half across. They take like twenty yards for the pair. And even if they are knit on something the size of toothpicks, they don't take long at all. And they give me no end of room for absurd blocking adventures.  Which is what we'll get into here shortly.  Just as soon as I've knit a few more.

This is fine. This is totally reasonable. This is not at all cause for concern. This will not lead to some really weird field trips and strange choices.   Fine fine fine fine fine. Do not be alarmed.