Yesterday I finished weaving in all the ends for the Stripy Striped Sweater.

Now I just have to knit the collar... but first I have to decide what *colour* to knit the collar. Or colours. It could be colours. Like, a four-row stripe of green and then the rest in the silver-gray. That'd look pretty spiffy.

#knitting #KnittingPirate #FallFinishAlong

It's the first day of the #FallFinishAlong!

I have a stripy sweater in progress that just needs all the ends woven in and a collar added... and a twisted-stitch sock pattern that I need to figure out, knit, and then write up for publication.

I've been stalling on the sweater because I'm not sure how well it's going to fit, and I've been stalling on the socks because I'm not sure how to solve the problem other than by reknitting the heel flap, turn, and start of the gusset until I get it all to start in the right spot of the pattern.

Time to get 'em done!

#knitting #KnittingPirate

In Which the Pirate Finishes Socks: https://www.knittingpirate.com/2023/08/29/in-which-the-pirate-finishes-socks-3/

(hmmm, why doesn't the auto-sharer thingie share the image from the post, too? Editing to add it... and some hashtags.)

#Knitting #KnittingPirate #OperationSockDrawer

It's #ThrowbackThursday at #FiberArtCamp and the prompt is to show our all-time favourite project! 🧶

I honestly don't know if I have a *favourite* favourite, but I sure do like the Passing Days hat. I fell in love with the yarn (ShirstyCat Just DK Superwash) as soon as I saw it, and IMO the stitch pattern really shows it off nicely. Especially those little pops of yellow.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/passing-days-hat

#knitting #KnittingPirate #KnittingDesign

It's #WIPWednesday at #FiberArtCamp and I am embarrassed to say that I have been ignoring several WIPs for some time.

I have plain stockinette socks by the tv-watching couch that I haven't picked up in a while.

Another pair of socks is up to the heel flap of the second sock, and Mom is waiting for me to write the heel turn instructions, and I just.. have not.

And I need to weave in the ends and knit a collar onto a sweater. That's it. That's all that needs to be done, and I haven't? For some reason?

Today's theme is calling me out! :blobdisapproval:

#knitting #KnittingPirate

@emery

#ThankYou for #Sharing, #KnittingPirate...!

Your shawl/blanket/wrap looks amazing!

And, since it's a #ToolTuesday...

My #WeaponOfChoice: The #MultiTool

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The second day of #FiberArtCamp is #ToolTuesday :)

I genuinely don't know if I could pick my favourite, so instead I'll talk about the newest facet of my fibre art hobby: machine knitting.

What a rabbit hole, man. My friend gave me a simple Brother bulky machine, and the next thing you know I've got a standard gauge electronic machine and a ribber, and someone nearby was selling a punchcard machine and a garter carriage for a stupidly low price, and and and.

There's a huge learning curve, of course, but the speed is enthralling. I made a blanket/wrap in a couple of days, rather than several months. (Still working on perfecting a sweater pattern that fits me the way I want, though.)

#KnittingMachine #MachineKnitting #KnittingPirate #knitting

Plying yarn: pull up a length of tripled singles. Treadle twelve times. Let the new yarn wind onto the bobbin.

Repeat one thousand times.

#HandSpinning #spinning #yarn #TourDeFleece #KnittingPirate

I've been spinning some pale pink merino during the #TourDeFleece. I have a pound of it in total, and was hoping to finish half of that during the Tour... and this morning I finished that half-pound of singles.

I've been spinning in the living room while watching the bike-riding; the wheel on which I like to ply is upstairs in my office.

So now do I...

(a) Continue on! ...start spinning the second half of the same pink stuff, putting off plying 'til later
(b) Finish the first half! ...bring the plying wheel into the living room and start plying the pink yarn I've spun already
(c) New fibre! ...divide the wool for the gradient that will coordinate with the pink yarn and work on spinning that in the living room; ply the pink yarn during downtime at work

Very much leaning towards (c).

#spinning #handspun #yarn #KnittingPirate #TourDeFrance

I had three Schacht-Reeves bobbins with some amount of singles from The Fleece adventure on them, but I need them for my current project. This morning I wound them off onto storage bobbins. This spinning hobby is so very exciting, some days.

This weekend I should be starting the last piece of wool for the pale pink singles before I have to ply... and then I can start on the colourful stuff!

If it weren't so hot, it'd be a good weekend to build a new lazy kate.

#Spinning #TourDeFleece #KnittingPirate

Spinning along with the bikes this morning.

#TourDeFrance #LeTour #TourDeFleece #Spinning #HandSpinning #WooleeWinder #SchachtReeves #KnittingPirate

I'm continuing this spinning project (this picture is not from today) for the #TourDeFleece. This morning I finished that fourth bobbin and started the fifth of six! The pale pink wool is meant to coordinate with a darker gradient.

I think it'll be really pretty, even if I don't know exactly what I'm going to make with it yet.

#Spinning #HandSpinning #KnittingPirate

Last week after the group ride it was just slightly too cold for comfort, and now I'm eyeing my yarn stash to see if I can crank out a lightweight hat on the knitting machine before next week's ride. (Not like I haven't already knit a dozen hats, but you know.)

#KnittingPirate #KnittingMachine #YarnStash #Knitting

Spinning progress is slow, but steady. Those three bobbins are just four ounces of this pale pink wool; I have quite a bit more of it to spin.

https://www.knittingpirate.com/2023/04/27/in-which-the-pirate-spins-12/

#KnittingPirate #Spinning #SpinningWheel

Moving Knit Night from Monday to Tuesday has thrown off my sense of what day it is, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover that today is Wednesday.

It's not the first time we've swapped days (our persistent chat is actually called Wednesday Night Knitters) and I expect it won't be the last.

Lots of discussion of spinning last night - one friend has finally gotten to the top of the waitlist for a McTavish/Drudik wheel (!!); another is planning a new project; I started the second half of a yarn a few weeks ago. This morning the sunbeam was perfectly aligned for a moment.

#KnittingPirate #KnitNight #knitting #spinning

In productive news of the week, I finished seaming my stripy sweater, hooray! Now I just need to weave in 2,385 ends and knit the collar on. The sleeve caps are a little poufier than I want, but maybe that'll block out. We shall see. It's still a fingering weight sweater, and it fits, and if it ends up being a house-only sweater... that's just fine. I'm gonna make more.

I also rearranged the remnants of singles that were on the spinning wheel bobbins and plied them, and got nearly 90 more yards of finished yarn out of it. That's the stuff in the attached pic, which I swatched at 32 stitches to 4" in stockinette on US 2 (2.75mm) needles.

That brings my total yarn from this spin to ~950 yards of three-ply yarn from 8 ounces/~200g of fibre, which... wow. WOW.

Next up, spinning the same amount of a light pink wool to supplement it. If I can get the same yardage (and I think I can; something's clicked into place with my spinning) that'll be more than enough for a sweater, too.

I actually have a pound of the pink wool, but half of it is meant for another three-ply project – which probably means I should spin it all this fine, doesn't it...

#KnittingPirate #knitting #spinning @knitting @fiberarts

Okay, never mind trying to learn anything about php - I picked a new theme and spent the day configuring it. I also spent a bunch of time figuring out which of my categories should actually be tags, and fixing those.

Next up, making a child theme so I can really poke at it. But it looks pretty good the way it is, I think!

#KnittingPirate #WordPress #blog

Yesterday, I was looking for a very specific bit of leftover yarn in my stash (I didn't find it, grr) and having some stress about having too much yarn. Of course I bought it all with the best of intentions, but now I'm not sure what I'm going to make with a lot of it.

Today, Mom asked me about going to MD Sheep and Wool, which is the first weekend of May.

But I don't need more yarn! Can I take the next two months off from work to knit, so I can buy more yarn?

#KnittingPirate #knitting

Some more "intentional holes" for #Fiberuary – this time, in crochet. Two skeins of Noro Silk Garden Sock went into this little shawl. I can wrap it around my neck and tuck the tails into any one of the holes, and it doesn't slip.

Although it's kind of scratchy, I think it's gotten the most use of any of the shawls I've made. (This is probably because I made a bunch of them at the start of the pandemic and haven't gone into an office since...)

#KnittingPirate #crochet @crochet @fiberarts

For some reason we're having a teambuilding event in Oregon, in February. It may be a case of bonding through frostbite, but hopefully these will help me stay warm...

Now I just have to weave in all those ends.

https://www.knittingpirate.com/?p=11681

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