In Which the Pirate Goes to be a Pirate.

I have eight *pounds* of alpaca fleece, with which I’m going to learn to spin. A friend of a friend with an alpaca farm was giving away her seconds, and I ended up with a third of the batch. Eight pounds is an awful lot of fleece, and takes up much more space than I’d [...]

Posted on July 27th, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Gets Around To It.

On Wednesday, I took my scarf to the Stitch ‘n Bitch and had a much easier time multitasking. Other women were also commenting that they find it difficult to knit and converse at the same time, especially given the involved sorts of conversations that we often have. I found a few mistakes on the Jaywalker. [...]

Posted on July 21st, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Works.

My new job is pretty cool, even if it is seriously cutting into my knitting time. I did find one co-worker who knows the basics of knitting, but like me, she’s chosen the path of “eating a quick lunch at your desk means you can leave at 4:00 instead of 5:00.” That means a 50 [...]

Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Vacations.

I have a dressy dinner planned for Friday night. I have new dressy clothes that I bought for my new job. Perfect, right? Not quite. What’s not perfect? Discovering that my Pomatomus matches one of my new skirts exactly. Why is that not perfect? Because I only have ONE SOCK.
If that’s not motivation to work [...]

Posted on July 5th, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate is Swamped.

The next few days are going to be really busy. I’m prepping for a 4th of July party and then going out of town until Sunday night… and I start my New Job on Monday. Hopefully there will be some time to knit on my vacation, and I will have pretty Jaywalker pictures to show [...]

Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Evaluates.

Janis asked: How’s the Morehouse Merino laceweight for working with? Pleasing to touch?
I thought I’d answer here, in case anyone else was curious.
The yarn is spun fairly evenly, though there are some slightly tighter sections and some slightly looser sections. You can kinda see them in the picture, but the difference between [...]

Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Knits On.

There are two occasions when it is necessary for me to work on a traveling sock at home - turning the heel and grafting the toe. Now that the heel is turned on this one, it’s gone back in the bag to await the next bit of travel - which is Thursday, so it won’t [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Pirate
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In Which the Pirate Makes Progress.

Because my new job starts in a week, and because I’m going to have to start getting up several hours earlier than I’ve been used to, I’ve been training myself. Every day, the alarm goes off fifteen minutes earlier. Today I failed to get up, but hey, it’s Sunday, right! I was still out of [...]

Posted on July 1st, 2007 by Pirate
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