Not the knitting police, but I sure do have opinions. The one I knit with the wonky yarn weighs 5% more than the one I knit with the regular yarn. Yes, some of the unevenness will block out… But if you're using 5% more yarn for the same number and arrangement of stitches, those two pieces of fabric simply are going to be substantially different even after you block them. If you don't wanna straighten your yarn out before you use it again, cool, I can't make you. But I can strongly recommend that you do.

Yes to snack ramen, no to yarn ramen. If yarn sits in fabric for a while, it will hold the shape of the stitches. Soak it and let it dry to get it back to its original state before you knit with it or else your fabric will be wonky and your gauge will be substantially looser. If it's still wonky after the first time, it means you didn't soak it long enough. Do it again. These two loops of yarn were wound around the same thing (so they're the same size). Look how much bigger the relaxed one is...and [...]

One, I'm reclaiming the yarn from this swatch (look here if you want to watch me pull it out...) which means unraveling it, putting it water until it's absolutely soaked all the way through, then hanging it to dry. If all the kinks don't come out, you didn't soak it long enough, do it again. (I don't like to put a weight on it while it dries because I feel like that stretches it out and I don't want it being stretched out more than I want it being kinked up, so I just do it twice if the first [...]

I've got that itch again. The one that says 'burn it all down, start over'. So I'm changing some stuff! TL;DR version right up top: Turns out I get to feeling itchy when I have too many things available at one time. So I'm stripping the patterns down to a core collection of a dozen favorites. In addition, I'll release rotating collections of related patterns every few months as I make new things and explore new techniques. Those patterns will be available for a few months, then the next rotating collection will come out. Once a year, in November I'll [...]

So I knit a mini hat to take the instructional photos for the Snowday pattern. (Why yes, yes I was that obnoxious kid who did extra math problems in gradeschool, why do you ask?) And I suspect one or two of you might possibly want to make it. So I wrote up a couple quick notes to let you do that if you want! It is, and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough, absolutely not a stand alone pattern. You need the Snowday pattern for it to make sense. It will seem (and indeed is) incomplete without the stuff in [...]

Ahem, just in case anyone is wondering what it looks like if you pull back a few feet, the pictures that end up looking like this... look like this from a bit farther back... Yes it's cold (it's January in Maine, I was delighted it was in the 30s not the teens). Yes it's...um...let's go with 'briny,' that seems like a fair way to describe the smell of seagull and wet seaweed. And yes, yes there is still quite a lot of sandy, gritty muck on my boots. Worth it though! Now for the real question, anyone else smitten with [...]

Snowday is out on both Ravelry and Payhip. And oh, oh it feels weird to try and do my job right now, because everything is on fire and all I want to do is hide. But hiding is not an option, so we shall be loud instead. So here's what we're going to do...I'm going to say 'hey, this pattern is out,' because that's my job and I have to do my job to survive. And then I'm going to say it's 25% off with the code FUCK ICE for the next few days (Rampant Nonsense folks get it for [...]