Reminders
This is your occasional reminder to put set your thumb stitches aside on waste yarn (rather than a spare needle or a cable needle) if you have the choice. Yes, that sometimes means finding scissors (to snip off a few inches of the yarn) or a darning needle (to run said yarn through the stitches). But especially if it's the first mitt of the pair, doing it this way lets you try it on and make sure you're happy with how long you've made the mitt before you start the thumbs. I know I had a few pairs of mitts [...]
Reading assignments
You know that feeling when you walk in to the middle of a conversation and you can tell there's something really important going on and you want to know more...but you can also tell it is not the moment to interrupt and ask someone to catch you up? Yeah. That's been knitting instagram for the last week. A massive, important, heartfelt conversation about race in the knitting community has been happening on instagram (and spilling over into twitter and ravelry and facebook and probably other places I'm not seeing it). And It's something we should all be paying attention to. [...]
So let’s talk thumbs
I mentioned last time I had to be a bit more mellow than I normally am and embrace a little bit of chaos because of the long color changes on this yarn. The left and right mitts won't match exactly, and that's just ok. But...that doesn't mean I've totally embraced a go with the flow attitude. I still want to keep the thumbs as tidy and uniform as I can. That means doing a very tiny bit of math. So normally when I knit a mitt, I knit the wrist, then increase for the thumb, then knit up to the [...]
And some matching mitts…
As is traditional in these parts, I decided the hat was lonely and needed some friends. So I cast on some mitts to go with it. (This is the bit where I remind you that today is the last day to take 10% off the hat with the code SUGGEST...so if you're reading this the day it comes out, get on that if you want it on your needles, this is the time.) I'm having to be a little more mellow than I'm normally inclined to be and just sort of embrace the color changes. The left and right mitts won't match [...]
Out of order
So some time very soon now, I'll do the thing I'm supposed to do. I'll show you the first swatch, and the second swatch, and the third swatch, and I'll show you the yarn I bought, and I'll tell you about my thoughts and plans. That's all the stuff I /should/ do before I show you this swatch. But instead I'm showing you this one because I'm so stinking pleased with it I can't bear to keep it to myself one moment longer and am basically accosting strangers on the internet and going 'look what I made' like some sort [...]
Imply (plus giveaway)
It's here! Imply is out today on ravelry. You can get it for 10% off with the code SUGGEST for the next few days. And there's yarn to give away over on instagram if you've fallen madly in love! So I'm not going to lie. This is not fancy. It is not hard. It is not shockingly original. But it is comfy and cozy and fun to knit...with just a little bit of drama from those giant cables. And that sort of sounds like exactly what I want right now! Normally when you make really big cables, you cross one giant [...]
And done!
Hatty McHatterson is done, blocked, ends woven in, and has wandered out to the woodpile for photos (yes, we do need to tidy the woodpile and arrange it better for photos...yes, this is absolutely something I fully intend to do...I need to keep my neighbors convinced I'm a little strange). It's lovely, the cables make for the prettiest, swirliest, most soft serve cone looking hat top I ever did see. It will be out Tuesday (and no, no the cables aren't hard, I promise you can do them). And matching mitts are already well underway!
We made it!
Everyone still here? Starting to wake up from the holiday fog and remember how to eat real food and wear real clothes and more or less be normal people instead of the cookie stuffed, pajama wearing, movie watching, midday napping couch gremlins we've been for the last week or two? Got some of the glitter out of your hair and the pine needles off the carpet? Starting to notice the sun setting later? Excellent, we all made it to the new year! Between the countdown sale in December and Curls 3 coming out in November I feel like it's been [...]
Straw stars
I posted these on instagram the other day and folks lost their everloving minds. I've tracked down the stuff you need to make them, and linked it all up here under the Straw Stars tab. You should know a couple of things before you fall too much in love with them. And I'm going to be quite firm about this. First, Shipping Is Expensive. Most of this stuff seems to be shipped from Germany, and that's expensive and slow (this is my polite way of saying if you send me a note or leave a comment saying 'shipping is expensive' I'm [...]
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