Cheerleading
This is for anyone feeling nervous about folding the stars! Remember the little one I folded and put together on video last week? Yeah, I wrote up the folding instructions for that one and put them together for you to try out. If you've been looking at the stars and thinking 'ack, I want to make them, but I'm worried I won't be able to follow the directions,' this should help! It'll give you a sense what sort of folds are involved and how the instructions are structured so you can give it a try before you buy the [...]
Tethered
As always, I will not be attempting to convince you that you need these. I will not pretend that they serve any practical purpose. I will not suggest that they solve any of your problems. I will say only that you can sit down with your needles, a tiny ball of leftover yarn, and the pattern and stand up an hour or two later with a teeny tiny pair of mittens. What happens after that is up to you. So technically, these are for sale on both ravelry and payhip (and you can use the code SMITTEN to take 15% [...]
Cranked
I cannot even begin to explain how fast and satisfying this is. This, which is about seven inches of knitting (with the brim unfolded) is what I cranked out in one afternoon of knitting. And really, I could probably have finished it in a day, but my elbow would not appreciate that, and it was getting dark, so I exercised a bit of restraint. But still...that's more than half a hat in an afternoon. That's delightfully quick.
Requisite amount
This is absolutely providing the requisite amount of instant gratification. It's a hat. A hat for my giant head. And it's only 60 stitches around, for the yarn is just that delightfully thick and smushy. It's Martin's Lab Big Singles in Glitter, and it's delightful. And yes, I will need two skeins of it to get through the whole hat (it's like 77 yards per 100 grams). But it is also only going to take me like two days to knit, so that seems more than fair.
Two Paths
There are two paths to instant gratification in knitting: teeny tiny project, or absolutely gigantic yarn. Today I am choosing the second path.
Gleaming
The sun sets here at 4:01pm today. The sun has been setting around 4 since the middle of November, and it will keep on setting around 4 until the middle of January. And I? I do not do well with mid afternoon sunsets. So when the dark starts to feel a little overwhelming, I make these. I cannot tell you why they help, but I know that they do. And I cannot promise they will help anyone else, but I suspect that they might. I suspect it because every year, when I share them online, I hear from so many [...]
Motivation
Every time it snows, I think "oh, I should go outside and take some pictures." And then when I do I quickly realize: it's cold and I am in my pajamas it's actually weirdly hard to take pictures of tiny things in snow and have them look cute because mostly snow is just white and flat and kinda boring it's still cold and I am still in my pajamas and am I still outside in the snow taking boring pictures while shivering And then I come inside and kick the snow off my slippers and wander towards the nearest teapot [...]
Math problem
Ok, so this feels suspiciously close to knitting a math problem. But in that nifty way where you're pretty sure someone with more formal math training than you would say something clever about it, but you absolutely don't need to know how any of that works in order to make/use/enjoy it. You can just knit for a bit and then fold it up just so and then play with/wear it and go huh, well, isn't that nifty. Though I do currently have the weirdest set of tabs up in my browser trying to figure out the right actual math words [...]
Guesses
So...any guesses? This is currently winning the award for 'looks most like a crime in a muppet factory,' but it will soon get all folded up and wrangled in on itself and turned into something much more staid and respectable. Well...in form. The colors will stay their delightfully exuberant selves. Wouldn't want to stray too far into respectability. It might be contagious.
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