I’m working on designing a new pattern, and planning to submit it to Knitty. Because of that, I can’t show you what it is - as the Yarn Harlot says, “Secret projects suck for blogging.” I don’t think Knitty will have a problem with me showing you a small pile of ripped-out yarn ramen…
This [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Pirate
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I am putting off knitting by… knitting. I should be working on the babypants, considering the baby is due in less than a month now. But this sock has me totally enthralled. “Just a few more rounds,” I tell myself, then marvel at how much faster the foot rounds go when compared to the leg [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2007 by Pirate
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
So! It’s not that the sock is too small, it’s that needles - even bamboo needles - are really inflexible, and don’t care to bend over my instep. I knitted a little further out of frustration, then sorted the stitches out onto five needles, instead of three, and tried again. [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2007 by Pirate
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Just in time for the warm weather (it’s 75 degrees F outside right now), it’s my So-Called Scarf! Made of almost three skeins of Manos del Uruguay in colorway 101 (jungle), it measures out to be 70 inches long and almost 6 inches wide, unblocked. There’s a little extra yarn left over, which [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2007 by Pirate
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Let’s take a tour of the basket! First, the top section with all the notions. Needles, stitch markers, labels from all the yarn I’ve ever used… You can see that it used to be a picnic basket. This top section has spots for four cups. Plates and flatware went on top. But [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: LYS, lace, meta-knitting, pomatomus, sock, stash | 1 Comment »
I just bought $60 of yarn in some absolutely gorgeous colors, justifying the purchase by telling myself that this yarn is for the projects that I’ll sell in the new Etsy shop, and I’m funding my habit here. If the pieces sell, I can use the proceeds to buy yarn for myself at the Sheep [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Pirate
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What a great time I had tonight at the SnB! There were less people than last time; I think the area is still recovering from the major storms we had last weekend. I’ve been hearing horror stories of flooding and downed trees. Fortunately, my neighborhood seems to have been spared from the worst of the [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Pirate
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Though there’s nothing there yet, I set up an Etsy shop today. I have lots of ideas for things I would like to sell - all knitting-related, of course!
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Pirate
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Saturday night, Pomatomus and I stayed up pretty late together. I made some real progress - until I came to a point in Row 13 of Chart B that made no sense. For half an hour, I tried to figure out where I had gone wrong. Then I wondered if perhaps there were corrections [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Pirate
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So, that part in the Pomatomus pattern where it says there will be one extra stitch, and I didn’t know where to put it? Yeah. It’s right there in the chart. Had I looked at the chart first, instead of just reading the words, I wouldn’t have had that moment of “oh crap I don’t [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Pirate
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