August Housekeeping
August's housekeeping post is up. This month is cranberry nut bread. I use the word 'bread' here because then it's more acceptable to spread butter on it and have it for breakfast, though 'cake' might be a more accurate term if we were going for unsparing moral accounting of our deeds. But hey it works for the muffin/cupcake dichotomy, so why not. Details on the snack I am most likely to offer you if you show up at my house on short notice, plus what's coming and going on patreon over the next few weeks are all in the post [...]
Mossy glade
Do I do this job just so I have an excuse to keep track of where all the best mossy glades are? I mean no, not entirely. But I'm not going to say it's not a bonus. I wouldn't lie to you like that. The hat is called Implicit, it's out now, and I'm pretty sure it will look equally fetching even when you're not lolling about in a dewy woodland fairyscape. Though really, you might want to spend some time there, just in case.
Tacit & Implicit
The Tacit & Implicit set is out on both ravelry and payhip, and you can use the code INTIMATED to take 15% off the set for the first few days they're out (as always, mailing list folks and patreon folks should check their email, they've got something waiting for them there). Or, if you already have Tacit and now want the set, make sure you have the updated version of Tacit (it went out yesterday, August 28), and use the code in it to deduct the price of the mitts from the price of the set. Details of that are [...]
Minimize the disruption
Remember how I said I set aside a little ball of yarn to do the thumbs with when I'm using a gradient yarn? That's because it minimizes the disruption in the color progression. Now, the truth is the progression on this one is gradual enough I could probably have gotten away with not doing it. But it's easy enough to do so why not! There's a longer post with more details about what I do and how it works back a few weeks, should you wish to know more.
Remind me
"Remind me what you do for a job again?" "Uuuuum...huh. Well. So you see...it's complicated." (whispers: but also super fun) What I'm actually doing here is working up a version of the little needlebook to have a pocket for stitch markers, because everything is better with pockets. But it looks suspiciously like craft hour at the sparkle pony school for wayward toddlers with low impulse control.
Low chaos tolerance
Ok, now we come to the most difficult decision in the whole project. Do I make the second mitt more or less the same (still with the blue end as the background and the green end as the contrast)? Or do I flip it around (so the green end is the background and the blue end the contrast)? I think I'm going to do it the same. My tolerance for chaos is low (no really, shocking low, especially right now) and I think that would feel just a liiiiiittle too jumbled up for the little order muppet that runs my brain. [...]
The Plan
Here's The Plan (read on if you have or are planning to get these, because we're doing things a little differently): Remember how I've spent the last year and a half restructuring my business so it's more manageable and less overwhelming? (That's why most of the old patterns are retired and only available a couple of days a year.) Well as part of that process, I realized is that listing the individual pieces of sets like this as stand alone patterns creates A Whole Damn Lot Of Extra Admin Work. And one of the goals of restructuring was to minimize [...]
Wait for it
Still unblocked, ends still waggling in the wind, still delightful. Now I'll admit, I'm absolutely itching to get this blocked, because the whole thing is just going to relax and straighten up and even out in the nicest way. But I'm making myself wait until the second one is done so that I can show you one freshly off the needles and one freshly blocked in the same picture so you can join in with me as I revel in what a difference a quick bath and a little smoothing and patting can make. Which I'm pretty sure means I [...]
Mix and match
Ok, back to the floof for a second. We did this a little while ago when it was just the mitts and the more eye-searingly pink hat, but it's cool enough I wanted to run it down one more time now that we have a third option in there. All three of these pieces of knitting are made with the same single ply yarn (Seven Sisters Arts' Astrid in the color Zinnia, that's it down front there). And then that single ply yarn is held double with a bit of magnificent floof (HauteKnitYarn Abigail in Saffron Spice for the orange [...]
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