Things about which I am not sorry
This is fine. This is a totally valid thing for an adult to spend their life doing. This fills me with glee (and from what I hear, it does the same for quite a number of you too), and hurts absolutely no one. Rock on with your teeny tiny knits, bring joy to yourself and others, and never ever apologize!
Peachy
Alrighty, so the Im(peach)ment Peach is totally happening. I have whirled through the pattern in record time. It's off with testers right now (so we can make sure that me wanting to get this out fast does not mean you swear at the pattern a lot...swearing at the news is fine, swearing at the pattern is distasteful). I need to knit one or two more so I can take cute pictures (tell me baking a pie to use as a prop is overkill), but with luck it will be out late next week. I'm totally going to donate some of [...]
Sprout
I can't take a walk through the yard without finding some little...friends. Things that have popped up in the night. Some of them vanish in a day or two, some stick around for a surprisingly long time. I've heard rumors some of them are quite tasty, but I do not trust my plant identification skills enough to risk it. I'll stick to knitted versions instead. Fewer risks. Much higher in fiber. Yarns are by the always amazing Seven Sisters Arts (never made a color I don't adore and I don't think they ever will). And yes, it's safe to guess [...]
Whirling
Whirling is out and it's 10% off with the code SWIRL. This is what happens when you have the house to yourself for a week and, instead of catching up on your sleep, finally getting all those pesky home improvement projects finished, or actually going out and socializing with friends, you start the week off by going to a yarn store. Then, at the yarn store, you find two lovely balls of fat, squishy yarn...yarn that won't stop talking to you about what a delightful little hat it would make. So you fiddle around with a quick swatch, just to [...]
Let’s do the thing…
The blocking thing has a secret extra bonus. You can use the time the peach takes to dry to knit the leaf (or maybe it needs two leaves?) to go on the top. And enough folks have asked that maybe I'll go ahead and do an impromptu Impeachment Peach pattern. I sort of thought only I would find this amusing, but it seems quite a few of you share my sentiments (and possibly even my defective sense of humor). Let me know if that's the sort of thing that would float your boat. And maybe let me know if there's [...]
If I could do it for you, I would…
I'm going to sound like a broken record, but I want you to block your knits. Even for tiny things. ESPECIALLY for tiny things. Now, someone's going to say 'but I don't know hooooooooow.' Which, ok. Blocking little things can sometimes take a bit of extra ingenuity. But that's why I spend so much time talking about it on here and then tell you exactly how to do it in the patterns. So for example, in the Nestled pattern that came out earlier this month, it says "Weave in your ends. Get your leaf soaking wet. Squeeze out the extra [...]
Mood
I mean...sometimes you simply must stop what you're doing, raid your stash for the perfect yarn, and knit a peach. A tiny, round, perfect peach. I shall call her Nancy, and I assume she'll save the world.
Nestled
Nestled is out, and for the next few days, it's 10% off with the code SNUGGLED. Now look, I know this isn't for everyone. Some of you are looking at this and thinking huh, well, that sure is...unusual. And if that's you, I get it. You should totally wander off and find the knitting you love and do that instead. But...I've heard a rumor that there are quite a few of you who are as hopelessly smitten with these as I am. I'm hearing about plans to make one for everybody in the family ornament swap or one for everyone in [...]
Fall
It's cool enough to reach for a sweater, and around here, that means this ancient, lovely thing. It also means patching up the latest round of holes (seriously, the fabric is thinner than a tshirt, it gets tiny holes if you so much as look at it). Luckily, that's something I rather enjoy. If you peruse the embroidery tag on here, you'll see many of the previous mends. (This is the bit where I preemptively mention that I can't show you the whole thing at once because the mends are all over and there is no way to take a [...]
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