Gray…so much gray
Step 1, yarn. Step 2, cast on. Step 3, knit and knit and knit. Step 4, no really, keep knitting. Step 5, DO NOT FALL PREY TO THE TEMPTATION TO QUIT, this is NOT five and a half inches of ribbing, and you will be sad if you stop now. But it is almost five and a half inches, so in a little bit you can stop that and do something more amusing any moment now. And then you'll be glad you kept going. But now it's totally appropriate to mutter under your breath and wonder about the chance of getting [...]
And done!
The blue hat? The one I suspect I'm not alone in finding unreasonably amusing? Yeah, it's all done. Now clearly I need to block it. And I need to get it a proper photo shoot. (Can we talk about the snow? And how the snow is sort of messing with my plans in that regard? Could one of you maybe do something about that? Think spring. Think melt. You can do it!) But the knitting bit is done (and pretty...I really really like this one). And, happily enough, the pattern making bit is done too. And that means it will [...]
Just knits and purls (plus giveaway)
You know that thing we tell new knitters when we're trying to be reassuring? That thing about how knitting is just knits and purls (and that really those are just the two sides of the same stitch)? And that's true. Of course it is. But there's also that thing that happens when there aren't any skittish looking new knitters around to scare. That thing where you say you just spent 45 minutes trying to figure out which of six subtly different decreases you like best. Or you tried three different cast ons to see which was prettiest with your ribbing. [...]
Yes, more swatches
The lovely Manos yarn from the other day? That orange and gray goodness? Yeah it's turning into swatches. Swatches that are sort of amusing on the back side (that orange stuff will totally unzip from the gray background if you tug the orange strand...which serves no function at all but still tickles me to no end). I need to tweak this a bit (I'm starting to feel like I need 3 columns of orange, not 2), but it's very promising so far! Yarns are from Manos (Alagria in Nickel, Clara in Miel). And you will be seeing more of them [...]
Consilience (plus giveaway)
Sometime last week the blog turned nine. I assure you I'm every bit as surprised as you are, but it really does seem to be true. So, to those of you who have been with me from the beginning, and to those of you who are just joining me now, thank you, I'm glad you're here! I can't wait to see what we get up to next. So, to celebrate another year, I thought maybe we'd do a little pattern giveaway. If you're on my mailing list already, you should have an email from me with a code to let [...]
No really…I mostly just swatch
I've done you a disservice. I got all distracted showing this particular bit of fluff off on instagram and sort of forgot to show it off here too (I know, I find it odd too...but your best chance of seeing all the things these days is to keep an eye on me over there). Remember the On The Round rainbow goodness from the other day? Well it turned into a swatch. And then that swatch got tweaked and turned into another swatch. And then that swatch went all sorts of good places. This is going to end up being a [...]
Next up
Remember how I said that the current mailing list goody was about to go away so I could bring out something new? Well I have it on good authority that you're going to want to be sure you're in on that...the new piece is rather fetching. Here it is on my patent-pending (this is a blatant lie), super nifty (that part's true) cowl blocking device. Yes, I do call it the frilly lampshade, and yes it is the best way I've found to block a cowl without getting any pesky wrinkles. You should totally be doing this to all your [...]
I didn’t forget
Remember the other day when we talked about the...ah...let's go with 'generous' amount of swatching that comes before a project? And I showed you all the swatches that happened before the blue hat leapt into being? And remember that gray swatch at the top that a bunch of you liked? Well turns out I liked it too. But the yarn it was in was just a tiny bit darker than what I wanted (there's sort of this thing where a bunch of those hats may all end up hanging out together in a bigger project, which all of a sudden [...]
Last call
You know how I have that lovely little cowl set up as a freebie for folks on my mailing list? Well it's about to go away. Now before you get sad, know that it's going away so that I can put a shiny new pattern up for mailing list folks (and it's not going away as in "gone forever, never to be seen again in this world" ... it's just not going to be free any more). But I'll be shutting down the backend stuff that makes that work sometime this weekend so I can get the new one all staged [...]
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