Want one of the Noteworthy kits? Here's the plan!⁠ On Thursday, May 8, at 1pm eastern, I'll open kit orders to the folks on Patreon. I've got a very limited number of these, so folks there are going to have a day to get them before I make them available more publicly.⁠ On Friday, May 9, also more or less at 1, I'll open kit orders to everyone else if there are any left. I'll post about it here and on the newsletter/ig/rav. Orders will stay open through midweek, or until they sell out, whichever comes first.⁠ On Saturday, May [...]

Preorders for the Noteworthy Kits are open (but only through the weekend)! If you know you want to knit some paper, but you don't want to go on a scavenger hunt for the bits, this is how you make that happen. You've got three options:⁠ Just the Bits (grommets, clasps, plastic canvas, embroidery floss, adorable little pouch, and of course the pattern)⁠ Bits and Yarn (all that other stuff plus a special, super secret custom color from @littleskeinyarn)⁠ Hold my Spot (if you know you want a kit, but prefer to wait to pay for it until it's ready to [...]

Right. So. I love angry, stabby, sweary little pins. Therefore I have many angry, stabby, sweary  little pins. Rather more than I feel like wearing on any given day. But that doesn't I don't want to see them. Enter our little paper friend. By cutting a piece of plastic embroidery canvas to size and sneaking it in the knitting before you graft it, you end up with a piece that is both stiff (so it will stand up if you lean it against something) and perforated (so you can put your pins in). I am delighted. And angry. And stabby. [...]

Wanna hear my not-so-secret-secret-plan? Because I'm thinking we should do kits...⁠ ⁠ Two things are true:⁠ ⁠ 1) these are so absurdly cute that I know a lot of you long to make them!⁠ 2) a big part of that cuteness comes from bits (like the grommets and the clasps) that are sometimes tricky to track down...⁠ ⁠ And while I have complete faith in your ability to undertake a little scavenger hunt if you really really want to make something, I realize sometimes that just feels hard. Especially for something like this where you maybe don't actually want 40 [...]

Embroidering these is...slow. And part of me wants to chirp at you and to pretend there's a simple hack to make it quick and easy. But...there's not. It's hundreds of tidy little stitches, all carefully placed, and it absolutely takes time. But honestly, it's nice to slow down for a minute, focus on just one thing, and spend a little bit of time being calm and still. I need that right now, and I suspect I'm not the only one. So no, it's not quick. And I won't pretend it is. But I can do slow things, and you can [...]

Ahem. Yes. Yes this needed to happen. I mean yes, cute as is, successfully hits the 'thing that looks like another thing!' button in my head (a button which I suspect exists in your head as well, otherwise you wouldn't be here). But then when you make it into a pouch it hits that button And Also the 'theoretically useful' button (a button which I know damn well exists in my head and your head too because really there's no explanation for the number of jars and tins and boxes in our houses if it doesn't). And if you can [...]

Ahem. So. It appears I am not the only one amused (I say, looking askance at the viewership numbers on the instagram post where I introduced this particular project). Well fine then...let's see how absurd we can make this. Because really, quite a number of you instantly saw this and said yes, but what if also pouch.  And well? I have the technology. So why not pouch!