Last night I went to SnB for the first time in six months. It was so good to see everyone again! I’d like to try to get back there more often, if possible. The timing and location aren’t so great for me, but I love being surrounded by two dozen awesome knitters. I got one [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Pirate
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Last night I finished the first of four skeins for the baby blanket. Originally I’d bought three, but the pattern ate more than I thought it would, and Pirate-Husband helped me find another skein in the same dye lot. It’s coming along - and looking good - but I have to knit two pattern repeats [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pirate
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I have five pattern repeats done, and approximately fifty-five to go. I will need to work on this blanket for more than an hour every day if I want to have it finished in time for the (as yet unscheduled) baby shower. Unfortunately my time knitting in the car has been cut, as my boss’s [...]
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Pirate
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I’m back from the War with lots of knitting behind me!
The Bloo Sock is (now) past the heel and into the gusset. I knit the heel flap and turned the heel, but either the numbers were off or I can’t count to 31, so I tinked back and re-turned the heel with my own [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Pirate
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(I’ve written this post in advance and scheduled it for while I’m away. I am not on the internet while on vacation.)
On the way back from landgrab weekend, I was able to put a few pattern repeats onto the feather and fan baby blanket. I like how it’s coming out so far. The color works [...]
Posted on August 5th, 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
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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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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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Friday afternoon I finished the sweater and ran over to Capital Yarns to get some buttons, which Pirate-Husband sewed on. This way the gift is from both of us. Here we see the Shapeless Amoeba just after being cast off. I compared it to the picture in the pattern. Yup, shapeless. Match A to [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Pirate
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You wanted a picture, you get a picture! Here is the Shapeless Amoeba Baby Surprise Jacket just after the buttonhole row. I have five more rows to knit. The color is about right, I think, but the dark pink may be showing up a little more vibrant than it is in real life. I may [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Pirate
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