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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Last night I started on the heel flap for Pirate-Husband’s second sock; I got seven rows in before a late dinner and early bedtime. Hopefully this afternoon I’ll be able to finish the flap and possibly even the heel turn! He is looking forward to having the socks complete to wear with his brown sneakers. […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Pirate
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I had an idea last night for a knitted lace headscarf, the kind you’d wear while zipping along the Oregon coastline in a rented convertible. It would have a long tie that could either go under the chin or around the neck, and the kerchief part would be triangular.
Originally I was thinking that I’d […]
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Pirate
Filed under: design, kerchief, lace, ravelry | No Comments »
I’ve been looking for fabric-lined baskets in which I can store my growing stash of roving, but no luck. They’re all the wrong shape or the wrong size or made of the wrong material. Pirate-Husband offered to help me line a basket myself if I found a good unlined one, but even with the wider […]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Pirate
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Pirate-Husband finally agrees that the legs of his socks are long enough. I held one up to his actual leg last night and pointed out that its top matched exactly with where the sock he’d been wearing left a line just under his calf muscle. Tonight, the heel flap (and I’m not sure it’s a […]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Pirate
Filed under: brown regia sock, design, meta-knitting, sock | 2 Comments »
I got to my parents’ house at about 3:00 on Saturday and knit a few rows while talking to Grandma out on the screen porch. Then I did an ssk where I meant to put a k2tog, but while I was backing up to fix it Dad needed my help, and then our guests were […]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Pirate
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Ah, finally, a chance to talk about both knitting, and my day job, in the same post!
Today at around 10:00am the power went out. It flicked off, then on again (the HVAC was confused) then off. And it stayed that way. After a minute or two, we all shut our computers off (it’s so […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: design, sock, trekking90 sock, work | 2 Comments »
The great thing about having SnB at Cosi is that they serve wine. I had a glass of a pretty good Shiraz with my sock knitting last night. Now, I’m not sure if it was the wine or if it was the talking and not paying attention to my knitting, but I came around to […]
Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: SnB, design, sock, trekking90 sock | 4 Comments »
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
Filed under: armwarmers, design, highwayman | 2 Comments »
Pictures were taken. The pattern was revised. A last-minute gauge swatch was knit, just to be sure. The email was sent - my pattern has just been sent off to Knitty.
For some reason, this process reminded me of writing English papers. Teachers always wanted us to take notes on index cards, from which we would […]
Posted on June 14th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: design | 2 Comments »
