Look, sometimes you just want to show off. To do something solely because you can. To pull off a faintly ridiculous stunt. And let's be fair, that's absolutely what's going on here. Working this with six colors is...eclectic at best, possibly even distastefully excessive. But sometimes? Sometimes you just need to embrace excess. And if you can manage to keep your inclination to excess under control with nothing more than a few scraps of yarn, well, that's not too terribly harmful in the grand scheme of things. Count yourselves lucky. You actually can work this with any even number of [...]

People often ask if they can sell things made from my patterns. I always say yes! ⁠ You can do whatever you want with things made from my patterns. You can't sell the pattern itself without permission! But you can absolutely sell the things you've made from the pattern.⁠ As far as I can tell, there's not a way for a designer to prevent a knitter from selling what they make (unless explicitly agreed to before purchase). So while I don't mind at all, I don't actually think I could stop you, even if I wanted to.⁠ This is a [...]

Here's the four-color version (because sometimes two colors isn't enough), again in both a tighter and looser spacing. Now, of course you don't actually have to work it in four colors. You can work it in just one or do it with two strands of one color and two of another, or three of one and one of another, or whatever else you can dream up. But my brain decided it just wasn't going to be happy unless I did it in four different ones, just to show off. Then, of course, it decided it needed to see some of [...]

The feral goblin in my head who likes to cause trouble: Hey, hey you know those hearts you like to knit? Think you could make one all thick/3d/like those little candy hearts?⁠ The adult I pretend is in charge: I mean sure, I could do that, I see how I'd do that. But I probably don't actually need to.⁠ Goblin: Betcha can't.⁠ Adult: No, I mean I'm sure I could, all you'd need to do is...⁠ Goblin: LIES LIES LIES I WON'T BELIEVE IT UNLESS YOU SHOW ME AND I WON'T STOP YELLING UNTIL YOU DO AND I CAN GO [...]

I've been thinking about how best to show off all the variations on this stitch, and I decided on basically making what is more or less a sampler. Which mean I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time over the last little while creating two big, plain rectangles of fabric (because there's not room to fit it all in on one), blocking them, adorning them, then blocking them again. And now I'm going to spend a not-inconsiderable amount of time this week taking pictures of the same. You know, assuming the sun comes out and the weather behaves. Which is a [...]

Should this amuse me as much as it does? Probably not.⁠ Am I going to let that stop me? Clearly not.⁠ Am I the only one smitten? Hopefully not.⁠ Don't worry, the stitching on my stitching phase will pass soon enough (they always do, I can already feel the faint tickle of the next phase on the horizon...it feels like it involves cables). But until it does, I'll be over here going 'ooooooh, pretty, look at this' for the next little while. ⁠ You're welcome to join me!

I mean clearly, two panels of embroidery were not enough. We needed a third. And I shall inflict it on you along the way! As always, I'm not officially making instructional videos, because those are hard and require a level of professionalism and organization that I do not possess! But I can just sort of do it and talk about it as we go along so you see what's going on and get a sense for the vibe, because sometimes seeing how something works makes it look way less scary. You can see that over here on instagram, or a [...]

I think I'm going to stitch on at least one more quadrant of this hat. And I think I might flip the camera on and film it while I do.⁠ Now, as always, I am officially not making a how-to video! Because the distance between the quality of video I would need to create to feel comfortable calling it that and the quality of video I can create with the equipment/software/time/knowledge available to me right now is substantial. And I don't currently wish to do the things that would be necessary to close that gap. So this would officially not [...]

The hat is out on both ravelry and payhip! It's called Explicate, and I can't remember the last time I was this amused with a project. Now let's be real, the knitting on this is pretty mellow. Ribbed brim, stockinette body, pretty little decreases on the top. All the excitement comes from that gorgeous embroidery. And that's what vast majority of the pattern is about. There are dozens of step-by-step photos to walk you through every bit of it from the duplicate stitch at the brim to the decorative stitch on the body of the hat to the (optional) braid [...]