Pinky swear
Ok, lemme give you the quick run down on how these work. Because I super duper pinky swear they are easier than they look! You start by cutting 8 pieces of the nifty paper. It's called glassine paper or kite paper. It's translucent and rather like that crinkly waxed paper you often see used for the bags a cookie might come in at the bakery. Then you fold each piece of paper up the same way. The folds are shockingly simple (seriously, if you can fold a letter to put it in an envelope, you can do this). All the [...]
Ink on paper
The retired patterns are back for a few days, and that includes the books! So, some of you are new here and may not know that I used to do books. Actual printed paper books. The kind that sit on your shelf and make you feel like you Did The Thing. A nice, even dozen of them! Alas, the realities of putting ink on paper and moving it around the world eventually got to be a bit too much to bear, so in 2019 I decided to stop. But oh, oh some days I do miss them! If I could [...]
Stained glass and what now
I swear they look like some magical cross between stained glass and hat crowns. And yes, I have totally toyed with the idea of making a hat to match at least one of them. The tricky bit is that you'd need Rather A Lot Of Stitches to get that much detail in something the size of a hat, and you'd have to do something fairly clever to do the thing where you actually end up with five (or six...or seven...or more) different intensities of the color you're using. And that sounds hard. And time consuming. Whereas these are easy. And [...]
They’re back!
Super Quick Version because you're busy & might just want to skim: All the retired patterns that are coming back this time are now live on both ravelry & payhip. They'll be up through the end of the day Monday, November 27. The retired patterns are already on sale (you don't need a code). I am turning my computer off and hiding in a blanket fort for the rest of the week. If you hit a snag (I truly don't think you will, this is pretty streamlined, but just in case) you can send me a message, and I'll [...]
Exact correct amount
I am having too much fun. Or, alternately, the exact correct amount of fun. Because really, if you can bring yourself an hour of enjoyable making (as you fold them up) and then weeks and weeks of ongoing delight (as they hang in your window and make those 4pm sunsets a tiny bit more bearable) with four pieces of paper and a sticker, why not do exactly that. Seems like a pretty good effort to reward ratio if you ask me. (I'm folding through all the stars from last year's star book with the nifty new paper. Which does indeed [...]
They’re coming back
The retired patterns come back twice a year, and they're coming back next week! I wanted to give everyone a heads up, because I know some of you are planners, and everyone is busy! Last year I retired most of my earlier patterns (because maintaining a massive back catalog required a staggering amount of admin time and I just couldn't manage it any more). But lots of folks have said they miss them, so twice a year I bring (most of) them back! It's not every single pattern. Some of the very earliest ones are just not polished enough to [...]
Proclivities
Remember how I said I found better paper? I totally wasn't kidding. Check this out! Gorgeous right? Not only is it nicer colors (and more of them), you can also find it with this glorious gradient that does amazing things when folded up. The only trick is you have to order it. From overseas. And yes it absolutely does cost the earth and take a while to arrive. So, the deal is I'll tell you where I found it and how I get it, but everybody has to super duper pinky swear not to get mad at me for what [...]
Smokey
I believe this may be the single most perfect marshmallow toasting I have ever achieved. Lightly golden brown, molten all the way through. This is also pretty much the exact moment when I learned that the teeny tiny fuzzy bits of yarn that stick out of floofy yarn to make that halo will singe and curl up at far far lower temperatures than you'd think. But now I have smoke-scented knitted marshmallows, so no regrets on my end. They went out to folks yesterday, but I'm planning to send it out at least once more before the end of the [...]
Toasted
Toasted is out, and is quite possibly the most absurd thing I have ever spent my time knitting (which, given my track record on these things, is saying something). This one isn't for sale. Instead, it's a little present for anyone on the patreon or mailing list to say thank you for making this absurd year a bit more manageable. Now, no matter how many times I say 'hey, I'm sending this to mailing list folks soon,' there's always someone who misses the announcement. So, if you weren't on the mailing list this morning when the pattern went out, you [...]
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