How do you feel about black pens?

Based on an Eberhard Faber Mongol 482.

Don’t drink from the cleaning cup.

A podcast about pens?!

PIF started in 2017 at the DC Pen Show, with the dual purpose of providing free starter kits to people new to fountain pens, and to run a “Give a Pen, Take a Pen” space at each pen show. Each starter kit consists of a fountain pen, a vial of ink, a cartridge, and a pocket notebook. In their first year, PIF gave away over 300 starter kits at the...

Ivy vines sprawl. They cover the every visible surface they can. The vines in these gloves do the same. The patterning panel reaches from the thumb, around the back of the hand, to the palm, covering as much of the public side of the glove as possible. This effect is more pronounced in the smaller glove sizes.

Scalesia is a simple lace, toe-up sock pattern featuring striped fagoting, spaced with rib for a snug fit, and a short row heel. It was designed for the speckle-style colorways commonly found among indie dyers, but subtle variegated, tonal, or solid colorways will also work.

Peony is a toe-up gansey knee sock, featuring four seed stitch gansey panels, with cables going up the center front, garter stitch going up the sides, and a moss stitch calf panel. There are directions for both generic and custom calf shaping, as well as directions to make a mid-calf version.

You can use either DK or Sport weight yarn for this cowl, as these vary by brand. The original was worked in Shibui Knits Baby Alpaca DK, which ended up being a thinner yarn than the Knit Picks Andean Treasure used in the second one.

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For a foot circumference of 9 to 9.25 inches (yes, my fellow wide-footed people, this is for you!)

Yay for soap! Instead of a washcloth, loofah, or a bath poof, why not have a little bag for your soap that’s like a dishcloth on the round? Just stick your soap in, and scrub, generating lots and lots of suds for a nice, squeaky clean! You no longer have to get frustrated with the little slivers of soap that always seem to get lost and break: w...

Flou Amour” is French for “Fuzzy Love” (at least, I think it is. I couldn’t remember for the life of me whether amour was one of the words where the adjective goes before or after, so I went with my gut). Why fuzzy love? For the wonderful 100% baby alpaca of the yarn of course! When I first went into my LYS, I came across this yarn, and knew I ...