Remember when I said I was going to be away for a couple days earlier this month? Yeah, I was down in Vermont to see a show by my very favorite band (The Mountain Goats, if you know, you know, if you don't know, you're in for a treat). And while I was down there, I stopped by a place called The Makery, which is a thrift shop for arts and crafts supplies. I was hot and sticky and tired and faintly cranky, and just about to leave, empty handed, gently grumbling about all of the above, when I saw [...]

I posted the other day about the lovely yellow sweater that seems determined to cut off my blood supply at the armpit and my plan to thwart its nefarious intent through the power of knitting and stabbing sewing. This is a much worn and oft washed cotton sweater, so the trickiest bit was actually getting the stitches holding the panels together to come loose (a process you can watch over here if you're so inclined, it's a public post). On some garments, if you nick the thread in the right place, you can actually just pull and it will unravel [...]

August's Notable Nonsense packages are on their way to folks. I always feel faintly bad putting all the pretty packages in trash bags, but the postman has told me that's what makes things easiest for them, so I am prioritizing doing what the folks doing the work say makes things easier over what makes the prettier picture. Speaking of the postal system, I am in the middle of figuring out what the shipping options are for the thing I want to do next. But once I know a little bit more, I'll come back and we'll talk out what we [...]

So I have a sweater, a problem, and a plan. The sweater is this lovely yellow, cotton, store-bought number. The problem is that there's not quite enough room in the armscye, so it ends up being weirdly tight in the armpit (do I feel weird saying this? yes! am I likely to be the only human being in the entire world who has ever felt like the armpit of their top was too tight? I must assume not...). The plan involves knitting a little diamond shaped gusset out of some spectacularly well matched yarn (also cotton, so they should wash [...]

There are a lot of packages to go out this month, so I dragooned some dear friends into an afternoon of envelope stuffing, built a tower of laundry hampers (no really, this whole business runs out of a dozen laundry hampers, it's by far the easiest way to store/sort/lug/corral everything) and everything is just about ready to go in the mail! The plan is to officially close this month's Notable Nonsense signups at the end of the day Tuesday, grab the address list first thing Wednesday morning, spend all day Wednesday printing labels, and hand these over to the postman [...]

Quick update on the ongoing delight that has been this summer's indigo vat. I fully intended to play with this once and be done with it, but instead I have found myself keeping it going for several weeks and just sort of idly playing with dipping (and redipping and reredipping) things whenever I feel like finding an excuse to be outside for a little while. Does this mean I have a lifetime supply of pretty blue napkins? I mean no, because I'm going to inflict them on unsuspecting friends and family come holiday time. And it also means I'm going [...]

I handed goodie bags over to the postman this morning, and they should start hitting mailboxes later this week! In theory, you should get emails with tracking numbers once the packages are scanned, in practice my experience has been that they often aaaactually go out a day or two after that, but never fear, the post office has them in hand! Side note, I swear, half this business runs on laundry baskets...they're the best way to move stuff around as I put together packages and then to get the packages off to the post office. I've got a dozen of [...]

There miiiiiiiight be a super secret thing happening, in very small numbers, tomorrow over on Patreon. The details of which might just happen to all be right over here. You know, just in case you missed out on either the phenomenally cool zip up pouches or the unspeakably awesome mail club goodies from earlier this year and want to fix that! I suspect folks over there are going to snap these all up in the first 24 hours (I only have a handful to go around). So if you want to hear when they go live tomorrow, make sure you [...]