The slippers are officially done.  Toes and all, even the ends are woven in. They're fresh off the blockers (aka giant plastic feet...I have a bucket of them for displaying socks, and I use them to block slippers, but you could use regular sock blockers too if your closets are not as weird as mine). Photos planned for this weekend (what must my neighbors think of me), and then pattern on Tuesday.  Then I have to tuck in and get properly ready for next month's book launch (it will be the first one in the new house...I might need to [...]

Decreases done, all joined up to work in the round, and now it flies. These go together the same way the Quiescent slippers from a few years ago did, though these won't need a strap (some day I'm going to revisit straps on slippers though...there's more to be done there). I'm way faster knitting in the round than flat, so these won't take long at all.  And this time...this time I'll take notes on what I do at the toes (we'll not dwell on how I may have ripped the first slipper's toe out because I got tired of trying [...]

So it seems I couldn’t stop with just the hat, I needed some cuffs too.  They’re called Purportedly, they’re out now, and you can them get 10% off with the code SUPPOSED (but read on, because if you want the matching hat, you can do something cooler). Yup, that lovely netting has me trapped...I couldn't help but do a bit more.  It really is that perfect mix of easy to do and hideously good looking once it's done (really, do your best to have new or non-knitters around when you do the magic row...they'll think you're a wizard).  I suspect you'll find it [...]

Remember the slipper?  The pretty little blue slipper? With the leafy bits and the glee? Yeah, well it was time for the first of the pair to stop languishing in solitude in the WIP bin. The second one is well underway and should be joining its mate here in just a little bit. And then shortly after that, the pair of them should be tromping off to a convenient wood pile or rock pile or tree stump or whatever else I can find around here and press into service as a photo backdrop! General preemptive question round up session.  The [...]

Probably best if I go ahead and give it a mate, yeah?  I'll be chilly and cranky come fall if I don't. Looks like this should be ready to go come Tuesday if you share my unreasonable fondness for it and want some of your own. And it will work the same way as the last set, you'll get a discount on the set if you get them both (and it's fine if you got the hat earlier, ravelry is awesome and makes that all work smoothly).   [pextestim pex_attr_set="looking-for-this-pattern" pex_attr_autoplay="false"][/pextestim]

So...I know I've told you this before.  But it was a long time ago, and some of you are new.  So I'll do it again.  Put your thumb stitches on scrap yarn (instead of an extra needle) when you're making mitts. Why?  Well because it's bendier.  When you try your mitt on, you'll get a much better sense of how it fits. And you should totally be trying your mitt on.  It's the only way to know how tall to make the mitt before you divide for the thumb (having that too short is super uncomfortable).  It's absolutely worth doing, [...]

So I'm doing something similar with the thumbs again (like on Unwavering).  You make extra stitches to make room for the thumb, but instead of using the stitches you made, you grab the ones next to it. This is surprisingly hard to describe.  It would be ever so much easier if I could just sort point and wave.  For now, we'll press one of our trust hand forms into service. It looks awfully pretty.  It makes the hand feel all lovely and organic and swoopy. Plus I keep wanting to experiment with it, which is always a good sign!

Right...so I should probably be done with this by now...I mean I did do a whole hat's worth of it.  But somehow no. Somehow I find myself wanting just a little more. The trickiest bit was picking the color.  I don't feel like using the whole rainbow is super practical on the cuffs (even I do not want to deal with that many ends on that small a space... So I went with pink.  I could say something about how it's high contrast and extra eye catching and make soemthing up. But the truth is my winter puffy coat is [...]