Wednesday, August 9
and it was such a good idea!
I have four projects on the go - I had a bout of startitis on the weekend. The wrap cardigan has sat for more than a few days in its second go-round. I have worked a bit on the big fella's socks, but not much since mid last week. I started a ribbed scarf, just 2x2 rib, narrow, 3.5 mm needles using some 6-ply sock yarn elann had a few weeks ago. It's a self-patterning sock yarn, not just a self-striping. After I worked four or five inches, I could see that the grey/white fair isle sections were not what I had envisioned for the scarf, so I ripped it out, found some Regia Crazy 6-ply and have started that over again. I have about six inches done. And then I started a "We Call Them Pirates" hat using Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in charcoal black for the background and rainbow variegated for the skulls, etc. (You may remember I made one last winter in red/orange here.) Also check out Hello Yarn's free patterns page.
I can make out the skulls, but if you didn't necessarily know what they were, they're hard to distinguish. I took a couple of sample polls of my work colleagues (and Ande did the same with the West Coast crowd) and it was almost unanimous that the rainbow makes it hard to see the skulls.
But the colours were so pretty!
Anyway, I ripped it out and have just started over again using Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in the "flame" colourway which is longer repeats of red, orange and dark brick colour, so it should look better and the skulls should stand out.
If you google "we call them pirates" + yarn you'll get a bunch of hits with all sorts of different colours of the pirates hat. Awesome!
As long as you're comfortable, Princess!
On the weekend, Sabrina "helped" with changing the sheets again.
Obviously that lump is on the big fella's side of the bed!
And one last pic, taken without a flash so it's blurry as hell, but at least you get a better idea of "the hair colour":
I do have other knitting photos to share, but that will have to be for another post. I've been going out with the big fella and Sabrina for their early a.m. walks and now she wakes me up any time between 5 and 6 a.m. to get going - this morning it was 05:30 hrs so I have to get to bed earlier!
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