heck yeah knitting blog

Knit Topography hat in two sizes! They are flexible and fit most adults and big-headed children. The pattern includes an alternate shaping, and can be found on Ravelry.

*to the best of my memory, and I could swear it was like that, but this might be an unreliable detail.

fuck yeah saw my beautiful neighbor on my horrible mental health walk

And I would have to reply yes, but it’s not going to help.

I’m a little disappointed, but if the internet has taught me anything, someone is really going to like this.

NEXT UP: starting a bag! It’s going to be very cute and fairly unlike last year’s, although some of the ones from last year were my absolute favorite reusable bags ever. (One of my weird fantasies lately is that I will get to a point where I just give the best of these away with bread or cookies in them, and I am getting close to that, because I own three now and I don’t need more; that’s my capacity for pretty fancy handmade shopping bags. But they’re good summer patterns and again, this one’s on pretty different lines.)

Mattress stitch!

Have released the simpler knit hairties pattern; it so far seems to have been a dramatic stylistic misstep.

(I could grade this over 4 sizes for adults in the gauge it already has; it would absolutely not be a quick project. I could up the gauge and use 3/2 cotton, and the heavier yarn would have a nicer drape, but you lose the shine and flowing look of the lighter yarn; I also have no idea if a loosely-structured elastic waist would work well on a heavier skirt. It still would not be a quick project. I could present it as a kid pattern, but the sizing would be a little too broad—two sizes? mid-kid and big kid?—and I’m not entirely sure how much work the drawstring is going to do; the elastic’s pretty sturdy.)