Show off
I have this little voice in the back of my head that says I should attempt to maintain some sort of semblance of self effacing modesty. That I should not let on about how tickled pink I am about this whole thing. But you know what? That little voice is absolutely drowned out by the ever so much louder voice saying "Holy crap look what I made. Isn't it fabulous? Don't you just love it to bits?!?" And today? Well today the louder voice is winning. Because this really is rather delightful. It's off with testers now (some day we're [...]
Dollop
Dollop is out, it's 10% off with the code CUPCAKE, and I'm so ridiculously smitten I just don't even know what to say. I realize that maybe this shouldn't be this entertaining. Maybe I should be doing something more suitable with my time in this world. But I have yet to show one of these to someone and have them not make the oh-my-god-that's-adorable face. And you know what? Bringing that level of delight to someone's day is kind of awesome. And, I mean you can sort of make an argument for them having some practical purpose. Sort of. If [...]
Feeling stabby?
So, there's no way to make the argument for these being terribly practical little beasts. Because they're knit cupcakes, and practical isn't really what you're going for if you're making a knit cupcake. But then again... I mean maybe you need a pin cushion? I suppose you could maaaaaaaaybe make the case for a pin cushion being practical? Especially if it has space inside to store more pins? Though again...practical is totally not a requirement for anything this damn cute, and I will fight you if you try to convince me otherwise! The pattern comes out Tuesday (and, as always, mailing [...]
Advance planning
So, the cupcakes are just about ready to come out (if all goes according to plan, they'll be out on April 16, because I'm pretty sure the day after tax day we could all use a cupcake). But, on the off chance you're planning to cast some on the moment they come out, I want to send you on a scavenger hunt before the pattern drops. You see, you'll need one, ah, shall we say 'non-traditional' bit of kit to make these. You need a little plastic cup to go inside the cupcake bit and give it that perfect shape. [...]
Pretty much like that
So after that 'let's go straight for a nice long time...no...longer than you think' part, then comes the 'aaaaaaand three rows and you're done' bit. At least that's how my hats tend to work. I'm a tremendous fan of a quick decrease on hats. It actually means you're knitting a bit more fabric (because you have to make the straight part a bit taller before you start the decreases), but I feel like it fits better and it doesn't give me hat hair. Plus it lets you do all sorts of delightfully dramatic stuff on the top. This one is [...]
Remiss
Yeah, so somehow I've been distracted and not shown you as much of this as I should have. Which is a shame, as it's lovely. But it does pretty much do that thing all hats do in the middle where you can just sort of assume 'and then it got taller for a while with no particularly notable changes.' Because well...that's how hats work. At least with this one you can distract yourself by wondering if the color is changing yet (hint, yes, yes it totally is). Yarns are Malabrigo Rios in Natural and Friea Handpaint Sport in Flare. If [...]
Pieces
I'm coming to love my scraps bin. I used to be fairly ruthless about throwing out little bits of yarn. If a yarn leftover was under 100 yards or so I'd decide I was never really going to use it for anything and just chuck it. But these days...these days I seem to find myself knitting more than my fair share of tiny stuff. The hearts, the stars, and the acorns all came straight out of the scraps bin (the acorns especially used the tiniest bits of yarn ever). And now the cupcakes are happening (and there are at least [...]
Bespeckle (plus giveaway)
Bespeckle is up on ravelry, there's yarn to give away on instagram, and the pattern is 10% off for the first few days it's out with the code SPECK. This was just supposed to be about the pompoms. I had this burning need to put all the stuff I find myself saying about pompoms (how to get them really full and round, how to make them detachable, how to add stripes or polkadots, what tools I like) down in one place. So I figured fine, I'll embrace the delightful ridiculousness that is my life and do just that. But then [...]
Psssst…
So I'm knitting cupcakes. Which is fun and frivolous and festive and should be a carefree sort of thing, right? And for the most part it totally is! But one thing keeps happening, and I'm in a place where I want to talk about it for just a quick second. People keep saying over and over and over 'oh look, cupcakes without calories' or 'guilt free cupcakes' or 'finally some cupcakes I can feel good about' or something else that seems to strongly suggest that the other kind of cupcakes...the kind that you eat, the kind that contain food, the [...]
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