Whoa it’s almost the end of November already! Wanna see all the things I’ve made?! First, I want to make sure everyone knows about my patreon and what the options are so you can get what you want, if you want! I know it’s annoying to repeat these things but I just want to make sure everyone knows what’s what.
This month, because of the extra zines I made for the zine symposium, all patreon members get some extra bonus items! And because of the holiday weekend I won’t be shipping out packages until Monday so you have the weekend to subscribe still. (But every month will have fun stuff, and what I have planned for December is extra special as well!)
The lowest patreon tier — only $2! — gets you non-knitting-pattern digital items, which normally means one new zine per month. This month that’s my SOUP zine (as a screen pdf and printable zine files, for color or black-ink-only). This month this tier also got my Knitting Comrade tutorials zine download files as a bonus.
The digital knitting tier — $6 — gets the above plus at least one knitting pattern each month. This month, that’s my new Palindrome Headband pattern I released yesterday! This month knitters ALSO got my Either/Or pattern newly redone in zine format (as a digital file, print file, and also access to the original pattern pdf).
The mail tier — $10 — gets the digital downloads from the first tier and a package in the mail at the end of the month (or beginning of the next month) with a printed copy of the zine plus other fun stuff! This month, that means a copy of the soup zine with a risograph-printed cover, plus a riso print of my soup art! And there will be some other items that will be a surprise for patreon members!
The mail+knitting tier — $14 — gets ALL of the above, so the package plus the knitting pattern (and other digital downloads). This month, this tier will get the bonus items of the Knitting Comrade zine and the Either/Or zine pattern as printed zines too! Knitting Comrade is printed with cardstock cover so it’s extra durable to carry around in your knitting bag.
And a note from the zine maker: if you’re a patreon subscriber and have the print file downloads, I do not object to you printing a few extra copies to give away to friends and family, in fact it would make me happy if you do! Soup zines as stocking stuffers perhaps? Knitting Comrades for your knit night gift swap? Go for it!!
Now I’ll get into a bit more detail on those new things—first, the SOUP zine!
This new zine has five recipes, all of them plant-based and using a recipe with meat as a starting point. There are two bonus recipes for toppings for two of the soups too! The soups are…
Tempeh Pumpkin Tomato Soup: the easiest one. In fact, this batch pictured was made by my partner who is recipe-nervous. He tested this recipe and it turned out great!
Soy Chorizo Sweet Potato Kale Stew: definitely more of a stew than a soup, quite chonky. It’s great if you like kale! (If you don’t, try it with spinach instead.)
Lentils & Veggies Lasagna Soup: I love them all but this might be my favorite. Super versatile, and includes a bonus recipe for the creamy tofu ricotta topping.
Loaded Baked Potato Soup: another very versatile one, meant to load up with whatever you’d want on a baked potato, but the broccoli is key. This one also includes a bonus recipe, for TVP bacon bits!
Roasty Toasty Posole Verde: the fanciest recipe in the book—the most time-consuming, with the most steps (and dishes), and perhaps the most delicious. Every time I eat it I think, I can’t believe I made this!
And as mentioned above, the cover is printed on a risograph, so it looks like it’s screenprinted and each copy is unique, as the two colors overlap slightly differently each time:
Then I also made 5×7″ prints on nice cardstock of the soup illustrations with two different riso colors from the cover version. These are kinda meant to be framed as kitchen art, but could be used in any way you like!
The background patterns are based on vintage pyrex designs, and all of the riso art was hand-drawn pen on paper then digitally edited to make it riso-friendly in 2 colors.
Next, the new headband pattern, released yesterday!
I designed the Palindrome Headband to use fingering weight mini-skein sets, or sock yarn leftovers. It uses about 50–70 yards/meters of each of five contrasting colors, and you can even modify the pattern to use fewer colors if you want a less bulky/more narrow headband. The sample is knit in Sea Change Fibers Littoral Merino Fingering, Falklands merino, and is beautifully soft.
The slipped+twisted stitch design slows things down a bit, but you do get the hang of it once you get going, and since it’s a bulky weight it’s a very quick knit! Great for holiday gift knitting and stash-busting at the same time!
From the pattern: I almost always wear my hair up, but my ears get cold in the winter, so cozy knit headbands are a wardrobe staple for me! This one is designed with 5 strands of fingering weight yarn held together, making a warm bulky fabric. The piece is marled garter stitch, with neat slipped stitch edges, and the diamond pattern running over the top is made by slipping and twisting single strands pulled apart from the working yarns. It’s a bit weird but it works and makes for a cool effect! The headband is constructed flat from one narrow end to the other, then seamed together when it’s done.
The pattern is available on ravelry and payhip as well as through the patreon.
Next, the Knitting Comrade zine! First, I want to let you know: the tutorials page on my knitting website has been fully updated with all new versions of all the tutorials in the zine. Because I was using them to make the zine, they all got edited for consistency with each other, and I updated all the jpg versions as well.
For the zine, they have all been laid out differently to fit the zine pages. But most importantly, they’ve been put into the printable zine file with useful front and back covers as well, meant to be a helpful printed booklet to keep with your knitting stuff!
And lastly, after I turned my Remixed ebook into a zine, I thought it would be fun to turn some old patterns into zines, and I started with Either/Or, a pattern I first released in 2012 that’s always been a favorite of mine. It’s for any weight/gauge, fingerless mitts or mittens, fun to play with stripe patterning, great for stash-busting!
The new zine version has some minor style edits to match my current style better, but it’s essentially the same pattern. The old pdf is still around with extra photos (ravelry and payhip purchases include all 3 files—old pdf, zine print file, and zine screen reading file).
That’s November! I’ll tease December by saying the knitting pattern I’m working on is not actually a pattern but a whole collection of several patterns, so patreon members will be getting the whole ebook! And for non-knitting stuff, I have a plan for something new-year related that I think will be really fun!
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