Pirate-Husband has a brown outfit which looks really good on him: a dark brown shirt with white pinstripes, tan slacks with a brown belt, and brown shoes. The other day he wore this outfit and, in spite of it being July, his new brown socks. He came home from work and told me that he’d […]
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Pirate
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I had some extra time yesterday while waiting to resume my vacation, so I started spinning. Actually, I think I spent most of the time pre-drafting; the spinning itself went pretty quickly. Here is one quarter of the Cloverleaf Farms BFL that I got at MD Sheep and Wool this year. I had done […]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Pirate
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This weekend is the beginning of vacation! Pirate-Husband and I are going to an annual medieval-style camping event. We’re going up to the site this weekend just to get our land and tent set up, and then coming back, working for a few more days, and going back to site Wednesday of next week. We […]
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Pirate
Filed under: Baby M Blanket, babyclothes, bloo socks, fiber, sock, spinning, swiffer cover | 2 Comments »
My first thought for the baby blanket I’m about to knit was that a feather and fan pattern would look lovely with the variegations in this yarn. I already know the pattern, it’s easy and memorizable, and it will look complex even though it’s not really. But then I started thinking… lace. Acrylic yarn. No […]
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Pirate
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Last week I was admiring this gorgeous roving from FreckleFaceFibers on Etsy, 4.4 ounces of BFL. I emailed a link to Pirate-Husband just to say how beautiful it was, and added that I was tempted to break my yarn & fiber diet for it. (As if it’s not broken enough!) Then I emailed the […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Pirate
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After finishing Pirate-Husband’s socks, I was at a loss. What to do now? It was too dark to work on the Ostrich Plumes scarf, I wasn’t really feeling the Pomatomuses, too late to spin, not in the mood for cotton… so I started a swatch for the next pair of socks.
Michael’s Bloo Socks are going […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Pirate
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It took just over two months for me to knit this pair of socks for Pirate-Husband, though I did work on several other projects at the same time. He had requested socks just after crashing his motorcycle last fall, and how could I say no to a man with broken ribs and a totalled bike, […]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Pirate
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No kidding, there I was, picking out another two balls of Sugar and Cream in Michael’s with Pirate-Husband so that I can make a Swiffer cover for an online friend who commissioned one in yellow and blue. Those selected, I commented that I still didn’t know what to knit for my friend Asa, who […]
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pirate
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A few weeks ago, in the Virginia forum on Ravelry, I ‘met’ someone who lives in my neighborhood. She was having a bunch of people over and invited me and Pirate-Husband to join in the fun, so last night we headed down the mountain to her house. We had a great time. It’s so good […]
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pirate
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My new Addi turbo lace needles arrived yesterday, before I even got the tracking number for the package. Turbo shipping for turbo needles, I guess! …okay, that was a bad joke. Anyway, I had time to do a couple of rows on the Ostrich Plumes scarf, and already I’m in love with these needles. When […]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Pirate
Filed under: brown regia sock, lace, ostrich plumes, sock, swiffer cover | 1 Comment »
