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Are you ready? Because we've hit the 'the yarn is

Are you ready? Because we've hit the 'the yarn is about to do an exciting thing' moment in the current hat, and this exciting thing is going to be So Unspeakably Pleasant that I'm basically required by law to share it with you. But I want to be sure you're ready first...

Here's another one that looks like it's going to b

Ok, a couple of folks are nervous about what goes

Wondering what’s inside the wee potion bottles?

Wondering what’s inside the wee potion bottles? Well I totally have the answer!

I mean spoiler alert, the answer is ‘pretty much all stuff you’d be throwing away,’ so it’s not very exciting. But it does mean you’ve almost certainly got the things you’d need on hand right this very second.

Oh, and if you’re not really the video type and prefer to read this stuff instead, I did a blog post a few weeks ago with the same info. It’s linked to on the pattern’s listing pages, so it’s super easy to find.

Really though, the answer is pretty much ‘lids…lids of things you’re probably already throwing away,’ so absolutely none of this is hard to find!

You folks are, on the whole, an astonishingly clev

This? Um, I fully realize it doesn't necessarily l

This? Um, I fully realize it doesn't necessarily look like it quiet yet, but this is the most joyful thing I've knit in quite some time. Because you see, we're just about to the spot where the yarn starts doing Secret Fancy Tricks. And once the yarn starts doing Secret Fancy Tricks, then I start following you around like a six year old with an art project going look what I did, look what I did. Because wow is it about to do cool things. ⁠
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Sit tight...lemme do a tiny bit more then I'll show you how it works!⁠
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Yarn is from @gaugedyeworks for a super secret (I mean...ish...it's not all that secret if you're posting about it on instagram) project. And someone always asks, so the needles are super duper long dpns (like 12ish inches) that I love dearly but, alas, cannot point you to a reliable online source for because they're just damn hard to find. But if you're generally a fan of dpns, I recommend trying out the long ones if you ever get the chance, they're great for hats/cowls.

Psssst, this is me just sort of secretly, quietly,

Psssst, this is me just sort of secretly, quietly, helpfully letting you know that the teeny tiny potion bottles should be out Tuesday! ⁠
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If you click the link in my bio then click this picture, you'll go to a blog post from a few weeks ago where I walked folks through what's inside them (the answer is pretty much 'stuff from around the house that you were almost certainly going to throw away anyway') & where I got the corks. There's a link in that post too if you have somehow not yet found yourself on the mailing list and still want to (though really...I gotta suspect that at this point, if you wanted to be on it, you've had that opportunity presented to you and you proooooooobably know how that works, so I feel conflicted about mentioning it).⁠
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And while you wait, go dig through your scraps bin for the most bottle-feeling bits and pieces you've got handy. None of these take more than a few dozen yards of yarn (seriously, the tiny ones are about as much knitting as the toe of one sock), and I strongly suspect you've got just the thing lurking in your stash. You can have a whole apothecary full of potions ready by next weekend, no problem!

So, I'm going to show you this project a little so

So, I'm going to show you this project a little sooner than I usually would, because there's going to be a point in the project where at least some of you are going to go I Want To Make That, and I want to give you time to get the fancy pants magic yarn in time for the pattern to come out.⁠
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And we'll talk about that at some length when that time gets closer. I super duper promise we will. But we're not there quite yet (but seriously, go start lowkey haunting @gaugedyeworks' page so you hear when we finalize our sneaky plans).⁠
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So right now I'll just say 'oh look, a hat brim' and then go back to knitting. Because I know where this is going, and I just want to knit and knit and knit and not do anything else at all until it's done.

Remember that thing I said about how having good m

Remember that thing I said about how having good mail waiting for you in the post when you get back from a terrible trip can save the day? Yeah, well this is extremely good mail. No really, this is wind it up (see the second picture), cast it on, and let it take all your troubles away yarn. ⁠⁠
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It's the only thing I've felt like knitting on in weeks, and I cannot wait to show you what it does (no, seriously, the yarn knows tricks...I can't say any more than that quite yet, but it's astonishingly clever yarn and you're going to love what it does).⁠⁠
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You should go obsessively stalk @gaugedyeworks (by which I mean follow them and admire their yarn, not show up in the bushes outside their workspace, just for the record) and revel in the glorious things they create!

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