For those of you concerned that things have been too staid, too practical, too sensible of late? Fear not. The uncharacteristic stretch of respectable propriety is coming quickly to an end. I'm fairly certain not one single one of you will find a pile of knit tentacles to be in the least staid or practical or sensible. They are quite absurd and therefore just what a certain sort of day demands. Plus they give me an excuse to get pliers involved in my knitting, which is always fun!

Everything's all set for this to come out Tuesday! As always when new patterns come out, there will be copies available through the Community Supported Pattern fund. That's the program I've set to let folks who don't have room in their budgets for a pattern right now still get the pattern if that would make their day a little better and let folks with a little extra room in their budgets help someone else out if that would make their day a little better. You'll find info on how to do either of those right over here. You can also [...]

Every month I write a post saying "abortions are good!" and send a donation to Aid Access to support their work providing abortion pills to people who need them.⁠ Next month marks a year since Roe v Wade was overturned—a year since I, and every other person in this country who can get pregnant, lost a little more of our bodily autonomy, a little more of our personhood.⁠ If I think too long about the harm that's been done in a year and the harm that's yet to come, I despair. Writing these posts and making these donations every month [...]

This should be out next week, so let's talk about yarn so you can be ready! As with most of my patterns, it's written in lots sizes and gauges, so you can use whatever yarn weight you want and fit pretty much anyone's head (mine's 24.75 inches, I'm not leaving anyone out for having a big head)! Because there are so many gauges and sizes, you don't have to try to match a particular gauge. Instead, get a fabric you like, measure its gauge, then pick from the sizes for that gauge. This always seems so much more sensible than [...]

In all fairness, I did tell you it was rather delightful. I mean it isn't done at this point! There's a good bit more to come. But I admit to being quite taken with it. ⁠ As with most of the embroidered projects, part of the joy of them is how flexible they are. ⁠ Here I'm using three colors (the darkest for the brim and some of the embroidery, the next lightest for the body of the hat, and the lightest for the rest of the embroidery). But you can absolutely use fewer colors (one for the body of [...]

Ahem. Remember that pretty little purple hat I finished back in (mumble mumble mutter snuffle ahem) February (snuffle mumble look, it's been a busy year, ok)? The one that was almost alarmingly simple though still rather fetching? The one I said was simple for it was destined to be adorned? Yeah. That one. Well, said adornment happened. Here's how it starts...tomorrow I'll show you what happens next. But oh, oh it's rather delightful. Consider yourself warned.

One last post to answer questions that came up as we talked about this! 1) The pattern is Constellate. It's not currently available, but reknitting it does indeed mean I plan to bring it back! If you want to hear when I do, you know what to do. 2) I don't know when it will be back (the yarn misadventures delayed things). My best guess is 'when the summer is winding down and it starts to feel like knitting season again.' Subjective I know, but also the best I answer I have. 3) Since this one is such a favorite, [...]

Someone's wondering if I couldn't just photoshop the hat back to glory. And sure, probably, more or less? In fact, I tried (this pic is heavily edited)! But I try to be circumspect in my editing, both because I'm Super Bad At It, and because I want my pictures to be a realistic version of what you can expect if you get the same yarn. Doing this much editing feels like crossing a line. I feel like saying 'I used Imaginary Yarn Company's Spiffy Base in Nifty Color' in the pattern suggests that your project will come out similar if [...]

How about a little close up of what I mean when I say reversible! These are the two sides of the crown on Correlation. I knit the silly thing and I still have trouble convincing my brain they're the same piece of fabric! This is also a perfect time to talk a bit about weaving in your ends neatly. I confess I always try to weave mine in neatly because I find it unreasonably soothing to more or less make them disappear (at least until I need to unpick an end, at which point I curse my obsession with being [...]