Smashing is out ,and it's 10% off on ravelry with the code FLIP for the next few days. Now, I will absolutely not try to convince you that this is hard or fancy or complicated knitting.  It's really not.  It's ribbing, worked on the bias.  You can't get too much easier than that. But...when you get done with the decreases (those I will totally claim are clever...not hard mind you, but clever) and turn up the corner and see it all blocked and finished?  Well somehow it's way more adorable than it has any right to be. And it is [...]

Nearly there!⠀I flat out LOVE how this one is pooling.  The yarn is Clara from Manos del Uruguay in the color Miel, and it works up beautifully with this pattern.⠀ This hat is actually a fun project for a lot of opinionated yarns (not that this one is particularly obstreperous...but we all know there's a yarn or two in our stashes that just needs to have its say and there's no point in arguing). Because the fabric is fairly simple (just ribbing, no cables, no lace), you can use colorful yarns easily.  And because the fabric sits on an angle, the line [...]

This is one of those knits that just looks *odd* until it's done and blocked.  And that's not a bad thing!  But it does mean I'm asking you to make a bit of a leap of faith for a bit there in the middle. Two things make me feel a little better about that.  First, it's a hat. It's a small project.  It's not like I'm asking you to spend two months knitting a knee length cardigan and only know at the end that it will work out.  Second, I'm showing lots and lots of pictures here on the blog, on ig, on my rav [...]

The replacement hat (for the original hat really is a bit too worn to use for photos) is clipping along nicely. The biggest slow down is that I keep stopping to fold up the corner and admire how it comes together. Sometime even going so far as to move it over to circular needles (one of the very few things circular needles do better than DPNs is wrap around curvy things like heads). This does not make for speedy knitting.  I mean it's satisfying...but not speedy!

Teazle is out today on ravelry, it's 10% off with the code PRICKLY, and there's yarn to give away later in this post! So you knew it was going to happen...one day I was going to fall for brioche.  And wow did I fall hard.  This is my first brioche project, but I know for sure it won't be the last (yes, yes there are more on the needles already). Now we come to the potentially tricky bit.  Because it is my first brioche project, I totally don't feel comfortable claiming that I can teach you everything you need to know about [...]

Turns out, there's yarn to be had at the Fiber Frolic. Lovely gray speckled yarn (that's June Pryce Fiber Art's Greenwich Worsted base in the color Stormy Days). And lovely purple yarn (that's Shirsty Cat Designs' BFL Sock base in the color Frission).  And seriously...this is exactly the color my hair these days...pretty sure that means it must become a hat. Yarn purchased at Frolic seeeeeeeeems to have magical properties.  The yarns I got the first time I visited (2016) turned into the Ostensibly and Purportedly set, the Calcieform slippers, and the Vestige hat and mitt set.  And the stuff [...]

So if you were to show up at my house (don't...it would be weird) and start digging around in my office baskets looking for the oldest project languishing there waiting for some attention (really don't...that would move from weird into totally unacceptable, I'd ask you to leave), you'd eventually find this. How old is it? Well it was a pattern I contributed to a book that came out in 2013, which means I probably knit it something like 7 or 8 years ago. These pictures here are from when I dragged that original book sample (a bit worse for wear [...]