I’m in the middle of the heel flap of the Jaywalker, and had to take a break, so I’m stretching my fingers out and typing a little. For some reason, I didn’t want to start the heel. I think it was because I did my best to get the stripes to line up, but […]
Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Pirate
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First, I unrolled everything and laid it all out on the futon. Pirate-Husband came in at this point and said “Oh, pretty!” I took that as a good sign, because I’d been about to stop after that small accomplishment. Bravely I took my spindle in hand… then realized that I needed my hands to […]
Posted on September 29th, 2007 by Pirate
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For the past hour or so I have been spinning up the orange bits (mostly) of the roving that I bought at the MD Sheep and Wool Festival back in May. When it gets to be daylight again I’ll take a picture of my progress - there is just no way I can get a […]
Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Pirate
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I finally got back to SnB last night for the first time in a while. Seeing my fellow knitters at Borders last week reminded me of how much fun we have when we all get together! So after work I took a nap and was well-rested for the evening of yarniness. And then I […]
Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Pirate
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Here we have the by-now-infamous stripey striped scarf, hurtling towards completion. I may have already mentioned that there’s 12-15 inches of scarf left to knit. It was up in the 90s yesterday (that’s ‘hot’, for you Canadians) so it’s nowhere near time to be wearing warm wool scarves… still, I’m looking forward to having […]
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Pirate
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There in the sidebar, thanks to Casey over at Ravelry, is now a neat little thingie (yes, that’s a technical term, ‘thingie’) which shows my current WIPs and their progress. It also links back to the project page on Ravelry, but unless you have an account, you won’t be able to see that yet. […]
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by Pirate
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For once I was incredibly glad that I go to work so early. Leaving at 3:30 meant that I was #21 in line to see the Yarn Harlot at Borders! We had a great time waiting, knitting, showing off projects, gushing over each new piece that was pulled out for show. Finally we were called […]
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Pirate
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I thought about this for a while and decided that the Highwayman pattern really needed some kind of included copyright information. So I put this on there. Since I don’t plan to make and sell armwarmers, I have no problem if anyone else does - it doesn’t take money away from me. However, it’s important […]
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Pirate
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Pirate-Husband asked me to design “manly black armwarmers” for him to wear while riding, and explained that he needed something to close the gap between his leather jacket and his gloves. Cables were the first thing that came to mind. He liked them so much that I made a pair for myself as well! […]
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Pirate
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It is too dark now to take pictures and have any color accuracy, so you’re just going to have to take my word for it…
I wound up the next (fifth) ball, the one with the beginning that closely matches the end of the knotted (third) ball. The outside, which is now the end, is nicely […]
Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Pirate
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