In the deep dark woods
Tiny things always look weird when you first start knitting. Always. Every single time. The trick is to not freak out and just keep going. Since they're tiny, if you put in even a few more minutes of work, things will start to make a bit more sense. Not that they won't still look weird...this one looks a bit like a space ship in the middle there! But they will start to make sense. Plus, if you play your cards just right, you can distract yourself from the weird by admiring how nice your yarn and needles look together. This [...]
The tiny, nifty bits
So look...electronic books are great. They're super portable. They take up no space on your shelf. They don't require anyone to cut down trees or put anything on a truck and get it to your front door. They absolutely have their advantages. And I will never ever ever have any complaints about folks who like electronic books best. But paper books have my heart. They're what my brain thinks of when it hears the word book. They feel solid and real and permanent in a way electronic books just don't for me. I love to surround myself with them, whether that's [...]
High cuteness potential
Sometimes you start fiddling around with some yarn and, while you realize that the specific little yarn doodle you've got on the needles isn't going to be the actual finished project, you can tell it has high cuteness potential. Very high cuteness potential. The sort of cuteness potential where you feel the urge to immediately investigate your scraps bin and see what sort of a pile of potential you might be able to pull together.
Magic tricks
It seems only fair for a mushroom to know a magic trick or two, right? And one of my favorite tricks with these is that you can get them to stand up properly...as long as you're willing to do a bit of magic of your own. Now, the ones with nice chunky stems will just sort of stand up without any extra fiddling. Especially if you slip a coin or a washer in the bottom to make it nice and flat. But...you can do a few things to further stack the odds in your favor. The more weight you can [...]
Never ending swatches
Ok, we did swatches parts one and two already, let's see if we can't fit the last three all in at once! I want all the bonus points for reblocking this swatch so I could take a decent photo of it for you. Yarn is Chickadee by Quince and Co in the color Angelica. What I probably should have done is shown you blocked and unblocked versions of this swatch. For you see, this stitch pattern looks...ah...shall we say indistinct in it's unblocked state? That's a polite word for it, right?⠀ ⠀ But...the good news here is that when you [...]
Foraged
I should probably spin you a tale. I should tell you some enchanting story about where these came from and how they happened. But I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to tell you that Foraged is out, and it's 10% off for the next few days with the code FAIRYRING. You have to come up with your own story. Which really...if you have props this cute, shouldn't be all that hard to do! For you see, there is no story on my part. I pretty much just wondered if I could knit a mushroom, then found myself knitting [...]
Yet more swatches
We're picking up where we left off last time and showing off more swatches for this year's book (which is coming in, checks watch, um, about three weeks). We'll start with this one. Yarn is Signature Sock Yarn by OnTheRound in the color Robin’s Egg. I am a sucker for cables. I like designing them. I like knitting them. I like wearing them. But...they can be sneaky little beasts. If you're going to put them on socks, you need to have a plan. For you see, cables make your fabric less stretchy than stockinette or ribbing. And you sort [...]
Stockpile
So sometimes, you are outside cleaning up your yard after a storm (almost as though you were a responsible grownup who made good decisions) and you Just Keep Seeing Acorn Twins. Not only that, but you keep seeing acorn twins where one half has the acorn still attached and the other half doesn't. So you start picking them up and stuffing your pockets full of them. And then, after you've made enough headway on the yard that you can call it a day (the idea of 'enough' has a certain flexibility to it you understand) you go inside, plunge your hand [...]
Shortly…
The pattern for these is due out Tuesday if all goes according to plan. If you want a heads up (and a discount) when the pattern drops, make sure you're on the list (mailing list folks always get a bigger discount than the one I post here). And while you wait, I've got a little scavenger hunt for you. You're going to need some stuffing (I use wool roving, you can totally use the polyester stuff if that's what you have, or even a cotton ball or two if you can't track down anything else). You're also going to need a fat straw...one [...]
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