And down!
The very first thing I did this morning was take down my ravelry shop. Here's what it looked like as of 6:03 this morning! Over the course of the year, I'll be adding things back into the shop. By the time you read this, the books will already be back. Over time, individual patterns will start to come back. Some will come back in the next few days, some not till later in the year, and a few will probably just stay gone indefinitely. Now, I'm going to try and answer a few questions folks may have, let me see [...]
Unable to resist
So you know those candles? The big ones in the pretty jars? The ones you see and think 'well gee after I burn the candle I'll be able to do something nifty with the container'? Then you burn the candle and shove the (waxy, sooty, possibly sticky depending on how it was labeled) jar in the back of the closet to ignore and then feel guilty about until you throw a whole stack of them all away in fit of pique the next time you deep clean wherever it is you store your secret junk? Yeah. Well I cleaned one [...]
Shiny
There are few things as deeply satisfying as pulling out the button jar, upending it on the table, and having a good root around for the perfect button. It's that perfect combination of thrifty (look how clever I am for having saved buttons, now I don't have to go buy them), crafty (behold, I have made a thing that requires a button, I have skills and can do neat things), and shiny (so. many. pretty. colors. so. much. sparkle). And something like this, where you just need One Single Perfect Button is extra fun, because there's no worry about whether [...]
Just go with it
Look, I've stopped fighting it. When I get the urge to knit something tiny and likely ridiculous, I pretty much just do it. Which is how I found myself, while recovering from what I fear was the flu, fiddling about with little bits of yarn, knitting envelopes. Because sure, why not. How could that possibly go wrong. I'll need you to remind me of that when I'm embroidering stamps and addresses on the blasted things in a day or two, mkay?
Loose ends
Heads up! Everything in my ravelry shop is 15% off through the end of the day, eastern time, January 1 with the code ALL TIED UP. That's partly in case someone missed your holiday present hints (or if you missed out on one of the countdown days). But it's mostly because, come the first proper work day of the new year, I'm taking down pretty much everything in my ravelry shop while I do some admin stuff. Now don't worry, I'm not going away! I'll still be bringing out new patterns (one in early January even!). And many of the [...]
Cozy
The sun is setting just the tiniest little bit later. And I am soaking up all the light I can get. Here's hoping you're somewhere comfy and cozy doing something you like. Bonus points if it's something other people find the tiniest bit perplexing but you totally adore.
Countdown 24
Today only, Curls, Curls 2, and Curls 3 are all on sale on ravelry for 25% off with the code COUNTDOWN (the code works for any or all of them, just be sure you put them all in your cart at the same time if you want more than one). Curls is the book that made me brave enough to stop pretending to everyone else that I wanted a respectable grown up job and finally just go ahead and do this weird thing I do instead. There were quite a few folks who were quietly (or not so quietly) worried [...]
Countdown 23
Today only, the Fine Things for Plain Occasions on sale on ravelry for 25% off with the code COUNTDOWN. If you know me at all, you know this is the me-est book ever imaginable. Patterns based off of vintage etiquette guides? Check. Hardback book with a freaking ribbon bookmark? Check. Photoshoot at an ever so slightly gothic manor? Check. Really you could not come up with something more suited to my personal proclivities if you tried. And even if the patterns are not your jam, you owe it to yourself to go read a few of the quotes from the [...]
Countdown 22
Today only, the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet books (Volumes I, II, and III) are on sale on ravelry for 25% off with the code COUNTDOWN (it works for any or all of them, just put them all in your cart at once if you want more than one of them). Do you want to know a secret? My only regret about this whole series is that I didn't put 'Volume I' on the first one. Everyone I talked to about doing books warned me against it. They said if you put volume one, and then don't do a volume two, you'll [...]
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