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 [...]
Nearly there…
The blue hat? The one that seems to be either seed pods or bug wings or fruit cross sections or about thirty other things depending on who you ask? Yeah, that's coming along nicely. The decreases are, as always, deeply satisfying. And the crown on this one is going to be a delight. The plan is that it will come out in early April. And we're going to need to have a little chat at some point, because I'm starting to feel like there needs to be a little collection of all the hats that use this sort of stitch...because [...]
I get the best mail
I've been busily working along on Curls 3. I've got a giant bucket full of finished pieces just waiting to be blocked and photographed (once the snow is melted and the leg gets a tiny bit better...taking photos is surprisingly physical, and doing it on a slightly wobbly leg is harder than I would have expected). And once they're done, it's off for edits and then to the printer. But before that happens, I can totally show them off a bit, even in their unblocked state. That's made with Miss Babs Sojurn in their German Waterways color. And it is [...]
Sidereal (plus giveaway)
The hat? The lovely, loopy, purple hat that lots of you have been asking about since December? Well it's out and you can grab it now! I really did have a good time with this one. At heart, it's just a standard ribbed hat with a deep folded brim. Because really, that's an awfully good thing for a hat to be. Hats like that are easy and comfy and cozy. But if ribbing is all you've got going on, things can get a tiny bit dull. So you throw in a little something fun every few rows to make those [...]
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