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	<title>The Knitting Pirate</title>
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	<description>Yarn Adventures on the High Seas, or, A Knitter and Her Day Job</description>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Has Trouble With Directions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday was a terrible day in which nothing went right, so I was determined to make Tuesday a good day in which everything went wonderfully. I started off by wearing my new socks &#8211; because really, how can I be in a bad mood if I&#8217;m wearing new socks? And on the way home from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/03/10/in-which-the-pirate-has-trouble-with-directions/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Has New Socks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drumroll, please. 


And now, on center stage, the Knitting Pirate is pleased to present, in their debut appearance&#8230; HANDSPUN SOCKS!


410 yards of two-ply yarn, spun from 4.4 ounces of BFL from FreckleFaceFibers on Etsy, became this pair of toe-up, short-row-heel, socks for myself! I started them in the end of July, 2009, when Janis and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/03/07/in-which-the-pirate-has-new-socks-2/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Pauses.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s not knitting which bothers my arms (even without the Knitting Olympics). Sometimes it&#8217;s work, and work has to take precedence until someone wants to match my salary with a knitting job. Well, last week I was busier than normal at work, and as a result, my arms are sore from wrists to elbows. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/02/28/in-which-the-pirate-pauses/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Visits Mom.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom had surgery this week, and I wasn&#8217;t able to be there the day of it &#8211; so I went to visit her as soon as she got home and was up for visitors. She seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered. We sat and chatted while I worked on the Handspun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/02/21/in-which-the-pirate-visits-mom/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Resists the Knitting Olympics.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as I think it would be great fun to join the Knitting Olympics and/or the Ravelympics, I&#8217;m not letting myself do it. The idea of the Knitting Olympics is to cast on a project during the Opening Ceremonies and finish it before the torch goes out, something that would be a challenge for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/02/15/in-which-the-pirate-resists-the-knitting-olympics/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Acquires New Yarn.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, while my house in Virginia was buried in more than two feet of snow, I went to Canada. Ironically, the weather there was beautiful and clear, if really cold. It was even too cold for me to want to skate on the canal. Instead, my sworn-sister the Ninja and I, along with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/02/11/in-which-the-pirate-acquires-new-yarn/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Casts On, Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s difficult to choose a traveling project without casting on for something new, and sometimes it&#8217;s really obvious. Fortunately for me, this is one of the obvious times! On Wednesday I&#8217;ve a four and a half hour train trip, followed by an eight hour drive on Thursday, and then a long weekend in Ottawa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/30/in-which-the-pirate-casts-on-again/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Has a Finished Pair.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a completed project to show! Ribbed socks for Michael, in Cascade Heritage Paints #9922. He bought the yarn for me back in November, and I broke the queue to cast on for them. 
This is my new favorite sock yarn. It&#8217;s smooth, yet squooshy. It got a little splitty around the SSKs, but so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/29/in-which-the-pirate-has-a-finished-pair/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Reconnects.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, I stayed up too late in order to turn the heel on my second handspun sock. I may have had some difficulty counting, though I hate to admit it. A short-row heel is not hard to do, so I don&#8217;t know why I was having such trouble. With thirty-six stitches, I just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/28/in-which-the-pirate-reconnects/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Knits at a Meeting.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, I brought the second of the handspun socks to a community meeting. The meeting was a nightmare, which allowed me to crank away on the sock until I was afraid that I&#8217;d actually knit too far up the foot, and I had to put it away. At that point I actually started to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/26/in-which-the-pirate-knits-at-a-meeting/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Hangs Out.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knitter&#8217;s Day at Veronica&#8217;s house was great! There were about a dozen people there, a half-ton of food, and *lots* of knitting. I brought the ribbed socks and got to within a few inches of the toe decreases. It will be great to finish a project, for the first time in months. Gonna crank through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/19/in-which-the-pirate-hangs-out/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Makes Progress.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, while at my parents&#8217; house watching the Cowboys lose a football game, I knit on the second of Michael&#8217;s socks and drank gin &#038; tonic with cucumber instead of lime. About those four things:
&#8230;while at my parents&#8217; house celebrating my birthday! We were there for both lunch and dinner, and also mid-day snacks. Mom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/18/in-which-the-pirate-makes-progress-6/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate is Complimented.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I actually left the office on my lunch break, which almost never happens. I decided to walk over to Home Goods to buy bread pans, and because it was cold outside I put on my beloved Fleep-Tops. I was fleeping the tops over when the man riding the elevator with me commented, &#8220;Those are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/06/in-which-the-pirate-is-complimented/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Greets the New Year.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wearing my stripy handknit socks to ring in the new year. My guests admired the stripes; Nancy and I discussed the possibility of trading our work. She does gorgeous calligraphy, illumination and bookbinding&#8230; and she has tiny feet, so it might not be a bad trade at all. I think she only wears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2010/01/01/in-which-the-pirate-greets-the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Recaps.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 was a slow knitting year for me; I only completed three projects. (Of course, if I&#8217;d been able to keep to one sock at a time, I&#8217;d probably have three more pairs to show&#8230;)
Pomatomus are the most complex socks I&#8217;ve ever knitted. Although they&#8217;re rated as difficult, I found that the stitch pattern made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/31/in-which-the-pirate-recaps/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Tries on Socks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The socks which fit perfectly, fresh off the needles, are now too big. The socks which I thought were too small, fit perfectly after a few wearings. There&#8217;s a lesson to be learned here, one which is brought to mind when I try on my handspun socks: &#8220;These socks are not really too small.&#8221; Sure, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/30/in-which-the-pirate-tries-on-socks/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Makes Progress.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These socks are cranking right along, and I am absolutely loving the yarn. Fortunately I have another skein in a different colorway for myself! As I expected, there was a little pooling around the gusset, but for the most part the colors are distributing evenly. It is much more vivid in direct sunlight, which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/29/in-which-the-pirate-makes-progress-5/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Stripes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of the Stripey Striped Socks. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had a love-hate relationship with a yarn like this before. The only thing that might come close is the Plymouth Sockotta that I used for Pomatomus. The colors are just perfect, but knitting with the yarn&#8230; not so much. 
I hate to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/28/in-which-the-pirate-stripes-2/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Decreases.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I finished the gusset decreases on the first of the Cascade Heritage socks. It looks as if I&#8217;m getting nine stitches to the inch, which is slightly more than I&#8217;d expected from my first swatchattempt at knitting the cuff. I hope the socks are big enough for Michael, because they&#8217;re slightly too big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/15/in-which-the-pirate-decreases/</link>
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		<title>In Which the Pirate Fixes It.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fortunately, only three stitches had slid from the needles of the handspun sock, and hadn&#8217;t dropped down very far at all. I was able to rescue them in just a few minutes (doesn&#8217;t everyone keep a small crochet hook in their purse?) and resumed knitting with no progress lost. The yarn seems to be slightly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://knittingpirate.com/2009/12/11/in-which-the-pirate-fixes-it/</link>
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