I am, for some perfectly good reason that nonetheless escapes me, completely enamored with the caps on these. They are just so deeply, deeply satisfying. I used a piece of wire in them, and it makes them Just So Delightfully Bendy. It means you can wiggle and shape the tips of the cap just so, and somehow that changes the whole mood of the thing. I don't know why, I don't make the rules. But somehow...somehow it just really really does. The pattern is Preserves, and you've got through tomorrow to use the code SHORTCAKE for a little something off!
Earlier this month, we did a perfectly respectable, unquestionably useful, deeply practical hat. So of course this time we need to do something absurd, just to maintain balance. I'm pretty sure these strawberries qualify! There is absolutely nothing practical about them. They serve no useful purpose. And I'm not really sure I'm qualified to speak to respectability, but anything that red must have something to blush about. But knitting them made me happy, they feel absolutely delightful in my hands, and they seem to amuse everyone who sees them. Which seems like all I can reasonably ask for from a [...]
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