Between the excitement of the niece and the holiday weekend, I didn’t get to do much knitting. But here is my (slow, slow) progress on the ostrich plumes scarf! It doesn’t look like much yet, does it? I do have pins, but they’re not very accessible at the moment. I can kind of get [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Pirate
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Wednesday morning, 7:00 am. Leap out of bed, grab sock yarn. Drive to hospital at just over speed limit. Wake up, begin using full sentences. We stayed in the room with my sister-in-law until the pace picked up, and then were sent downstairs to wait in the lobby, where I got started on my next [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2007 by Pirate
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Using this basic hat formula, I took the leftover Manos del Uruguay in green from my scarf, and in tan from a previous hat project, and made a whole new hat! At first, I was going to put a solid green stripe in the middle. Then I decided that it was time to try [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2007 by Pirate
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Before anything else, I need to thank Pirate-Husband, who saved me from a hell of unseamed babypants. On Tuesday, after the nightmare of waistband stitches getting free, I tried to get the seams in and failed. On Tuesday night, Pirate-Husband gave it a try, but was also frustrated. Wednesday, I made four attempts to [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2007 by Pirate
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The pockets have been redone (twice, in the case of the front pockets) and I’m up to seaming. Again. I’ve tried three times and have failed to create a seam that can be seen from the outside of the pants. Don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I can hear the ghost of my great-grandmother [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Pirate
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Yarrrgh.
No, that wasn’t strong enough. YARRRGH!
There, that’s better. What is this yarrrghing all about, you may ask? Well, I’ll tell you, because YAARRGH. I finished knitting both legs of the babypants. With the waistband stitches safely on waste yarn and the ends nicely woven in, I was only a little nervous as I [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2007 by Pirate
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Midori asked about the Pomatomuses in this comment, saying that she’s making a very small pair with a third of the stitches taken out, but is unsure how to do the heel. This seemed like a challenge to me… right then!
(I checked back in Midori’s blog and found that she’d already come up with a [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2007 by Pirate
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Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and to all the other moms out there!
My parents came to visit today. Pirate-Husband and I hosted the party, which also included my brother and sister-in-law (still pregnant). This is my mom, working on a baby sweater. Mom taught me to knit when I was a kid, maybe [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by Pirate
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It’s very difficult to work on a surprise knitted gift for my sister-in-law when I spend most of the day out shopping with said sister-in-law! (I didn’t buy anything, though there was this one flowery dress - not for me, for the baby - that I was tempted to pick up.) I did show her [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2007 by Pirate
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My order from 100purewool.com has finally arrived, and the yarn is just as beautiful as I had hoped!
The one on the bottom of my picture is the “Aquisgran” colorway (now retired). It is quite a bit more yellow and a lot less other-colored than I had expected. I’m surprised, but okay with this, [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2007 by Pirate
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