Psst, wanna learn about turned hems? If you do, I wrote up a little guide to them. Should you wish to peruse such a thing, wander over this way. I used turned hems on both of these hats (they'll be out next, after the snowflake hat), and it's quickly become one of my absolute favorite ways to start a hat. It's tidy (all stockinette, no curl), it's warm (double layer on the chilly ear bits), it makes good use of yarn (because dammit, one skein isn't quite enough for the whole hat, but if I use a different yarn for [...]

Before we start, I want to acknowledge that literally none of us are ok right now. Not even a little bit. If you're in America, you're watching your government murder people in the street and strip you of your bodily autonomy and take away what little access to healthcare you have and raise the prices of everything you have to buy to survive while we all hold our breath and wonder if we're actually in civil war yet or just flirting with one. And if you're in the rest of the world, you're watching an evil, incompetent man send the [...]

One, cute hat, nearly done, out soon: Two, ICE are a bunch of evil, fascist fucks. If you work for them, you are a bad person. Your children and grandchildren are ashamed of you. If your friends or family work for them (or support them), it's completely appropriate (and I would argue morally correct) to cut them out of your life. Because there should be consequences for being an evil, fascist fuck. And social stigma seems like a good place to start.

Ahem, that will do nicely yes.

I, for absolutely legitimate work related reasons, simply had to make a tiny version of the hat. So I could take instructional photos of it for the pattern you understand. Completely reasonable. Which of course means I need to embroider on it. Again, for completely legitimate educational purposes. Yup, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Now I just need to pick which color to use...

I, for reasons having largely to do with 'it's stockinette, I got distracted, my hands were on auto pilot' ended up doing something a bit unexpected at the brim of this hat. And I think I sort of like it? In that 'oooh, I should play with this more so I can figure out how it behaves and do something with it' sort of way. It looks nifty on both sides, and it's usefully stretchy in a way that makes it suitable for the bottoms of hats, and I'm pretty sure I can play with it in such a way [...]

I am, in the finest holiday tradition, about to hibernate for the next two weeks or so. You may imagine me slightly dazed, speckled with inexplicable glitter, cookie sprinkles stuck to my hair, pillow creases on my face, blinking at the sparkly lights, completely devoid of vegetables, completely unsure of what day of the week it is, and headed off to find the nearest kitten and mug of hot chocolate. Or, if I've napped and snacked as much as my middle aged self can manage, I'll be off to continue the holiday tradition of folding these to bring the light [...]

Look, in my defense, I was left unsupervised with a pile of buttons, an icord machine, and an as-of-yet-not-fully-decked Christmas tree. Shenanigans were bound to ensue. Because you can put anything on your tree if you do it with sufficient conviction. Y'all are an astonishingly clever bunch. Having seen this, you can, without a doubt, recreate it yourself. And I think you should! Because I have it on good authority (see, the comment section over the last few months) that many of you have a button jar (or bag, or drawer, or jug) kicking around somewhere in the depths of [...]