Psst, this is going out on Tuesday! Remember the hat? The sweet little hat with the embroidery on it that came out at the very end of January? And remember how I told you I'm naturally inclined to want to play with a zillion different variations of things like that? And how spent all last year making a bunch of big changes to my business to let me do exact that sort of play? Yup, well, this is what happens when that all works out. Utter Nonsense and Rampant Nonsense folks will find a lovely little ebook with my explorations [...]

I mean I told you this was going to be less than scintillating for the first little while. The wee stripe friend provides more interest than I should probably admit, but it's still very much auto pilot knitting. But the nifty bits are coming. Just as soon as it's off the needles. Which it will be here fairly soon...

This will not be terribly interesting. Well, at least not until it's done. It's going to be a plain hat with just one wee tiny stripe up the side to alleviate the monotony. For now. Its day is coming. I super duper pinky swear it'll be pretty darn spiffy when it's done. But first...stockinette. In quantity. Sit tight...

I'm currently loving folded hems on hats. Folks tend to either think folded hems are Hard & Scary & Fancy, or they shrug and say sure I can do that. And I truly think which camp you fall into has more to do with how your brain is handling life at the moment than anything else (because sometimes anything new is Just Too Much right now, and I get it). But if you've not done them before, and you're in a headspace where you don't mind trying something new, they're pretty chill. Start by working a provisional cast on (doesn't [...]

I'm trying to get in the habit of doing a little housekeeping post once a month. The theory is that it will give me a place to run down what's going away, what's coming next, and what's in progress. Plus show off a little non-knitting something or other because we cannot live on yarn alone. This time that's salt preserved lemons! I made them on stories the other day, and folks had questions. If you want to see how I make mine (or get some ideas for what to do with them), or to find out which of the retired [...]

You know what I hear all the time? Some variation of "I've never even seen a pattern like this before!" And I have to say, I kind of love hearing that. I try really hard to make my work special, and comments like that make me feel like I'm doing a good job! But they also make me realize that a lot of folks might not know what to expect if they're not used to my work. So I thought maybe we should take a look at my current project, just to sort of show you what it looks like. These [...]

Seeing as how restraint isn't my strong suit, I need you folks to decide if the wrapped variation finds its way into the embroidery project.⁠ ⁠ If we hit the goal I set up by the time it comes out, I'll put it in. If we don't no big deal, there's plenty of other stuff in there (no really, I truly don't think anyone will feel slighted, there's a mountain of stuff in there, this is just something I couldn't resist playing with because I'm hopeless in the face of temptation).⁠ Head over here to see how close we are [...]