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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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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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 father called me this morning.
Dad: Hi, toots!** What’s going on?
Me: Uh.. you called me, Dad. Did something happen?
Dad: No, I was just calling to say hi.
Me: Oh! Okay good. I thought you were calling to tell me that the baby was born.
Dad: No, not yet! But it will be Any Day Now.
I could hear […]
Posted on May 4th, 2007 by Pirate
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Yarrr, but not in the way that ye think, ye scurvy landlubber!
Last night I finished the first leg of Blu and cast on right away for the second, just in case there’s anything like Second Sock Syndrome for pants legs. The yarn does stain my fingers a little bit, but it washes […]
Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Pirate
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I found a local Stitch ‘n Bitch through Meetup, and tonight I went for the second time. It’s a relatively new group, but it has a lot of potential. We had about a dozen people there, both two weeks ago and tonight. Ages ranged from high school to grandmother, and the skill range was from […]
Posted on April 4th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: SnB, babyclothes, blu, pomatomus, scarf, so-called scarf, sock | No Comments »
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