Simple
Yesterday I found myself in my local graveyard, sitting on the ground by a mossy tree stump, carefully wrapping tiny wooden dolls in wooly capes and tucking them inside knitted leaves so I could take pretty pictures of them. And, because brains are tremendous storehouses of every stressful thing that's ever happened to you, I found myself thinking of a moment at the beginning of eighth grade. My english teacher (hi Mrs. Bottorff!) called me aside after class and told me that one of my other teachers had warned her that I was simple (her word, not mine) and would [...]
And now for something a bit lighter
I could tell you a story. I could tell you about tiny capes and perfectly shaped hoods and tying tiny bows. But I'm not going to. I'm just going to show you these and count on you to imagine it all for yourself. Because I'm pretty sure you can imagine exactly how adorable these are and how irresistible and how much you just want to cradle them in your hands and make frankly ridiculous cooing noises. You don't need me to tell you how it's done. What I will tell you is that the pattern is coming soon (later this [...]
Timelines, Tariffs, and Changing Truths (or why there likely won’t be a book next year)
I've written and published at least one book a year since 2012. I love books. I probably won't do one next year. I want to tell you why. To do that, I have to talk a little about how books are made, how they're priced, and, oddly enough, tariffs. I never expected to be thinking about tariffs and trade wars when I started writing knitting patterns, but here we are. Let's start with timelines. Books take me about a year to create. I started working on this fall's book in December 2018. I have my team and my process in [...]
You didn’t think I left the tops open by accident did you
So those leaves? The rainbow mountain of ridiculous leaves? Yeah. They need something to go in them don't you think? Something as absurdly cute and ridiculous as they are? It seems only reasonable. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]
I mean at least it’s seasonally appropriate, right?
Once upon a time there was a knitter with a short attention span. A short attention span and a fondness for cute things. If you showed her a cute tiny thing...a thing she could knit in one sitting, she'd be delighted. She'd knit it again and again and again. Even if you kind of wished she wouldn't.
Abeyance (plus giveaway)
Abeyance is out, it's 10% with the code LOOPY, and I've got yarn to give away. Now, I feel like I should offer you some sort of marvelous story here. Preferably the kind with disaster narrowly averted and quick-witted banter and possibly some sort of riveting chase scene. But that's not what happened. What happened is I woke up one morning with an absolutely burning desire for slippers with a little loop on the back. No really. That's it. I just decided that would be the cutest thing in the whole wide world. Once I realized that, the only reasonable [...]
Here we go again
Remember the stash dive the other day? The one that led to a small mountain of fall-colored scraps heaped in a pile in the corner of my office? Yeah. Well those little bits of yarn crept up behind me when I wasn't looking, tripped me, wrestled me into submission, and climbed onto my needles. This is the start of one of those things. One of those ridiculous, pointless, all-consuming obsessions that occasionally grips me. And I mean, the results are never bad. In the past, these fits have led to hears, stars, acorns, and cupcakes. All of which have, in [...]
Second verse, same as the first
I feel like there should be some way to make 'and then do it all again' more interesting than it is. Now mind you, I haven't found that way. But I do think there should be one. So let's all just sort of communally agree to nod along and pretend that knitting slipper (or sock...or mitt) number two posed all sorts of unexpected challenges and perplexing developments. Or we could just sort of revel in something going smoothly and easily and maybe admit that not every bit of knitting needs to be a breathless tale of death defying adventure. Sometimes [...]
This part’s quick
Once these join up, they zip right along. I'm not sure why I knit faster in the round, but somehow I really really do. This brings up a handy opportunity to be obnoxiously preachy (what fun, I'm sure you're thrilled!). Lots of folks get a different gauge when they knit in the round than when they knit flat. The only way to know for sure if you do is...you guessed it...to swatch. Swatch both in the round and flat. Which I know is not what you want to hear. But on projects like this where you knit both flat and in [...]
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