stashbusting!


behold, the amazing shrinking yarn stash! with the exception of stuff for my shop [those skeins are used up and sent away within the week],  i haven't made any personal yarn purchases in a long while. it's all been stashbusting and i'm proud to see the basket overflowing a lot less with each passing week!

have you been stashbusting too? have you had any little victories lately, or has your yarn basket grown? do tell!

the ceph



here's the first of a few designs i finished recently! this one's named the ceph for the evolutionary trend of cephalization, where nervous tissue becomes more concentrated on one end than on the other, which eventually forms a head with a brain. it's one of my favorite things to mind when designing simple creatures, as it's something that causes the area of interest and the line of symmetry in things to change.
anyway, went with my current simple favorite k1 p1 type pattern, which works a lot for what this is. it's really beautiful to me how such simple things like the knit and purl stitch have the potential to create very interesting, detailed knitwear.