I sock at this...

Sunday afternoon, in my weekend recovery mode, I went to chapters to get some much needed coffee and look at the books. I had seen this lovely sock book online and when I found it in the store I decided that it would make my life complete, for the day anyway.

I started the Embossed Leaves pattern with the ball of Jawoll which I have already started to knit and unknit countless other socks with, but I thought "this pattern will be the one!". That was a little ambitious considering I have never done socks in that degree of difficulty or read a lace chart before. I probably should have done some research before starting so that I would have known that you read from the bottom up, etc, but alas it was not meant to be. I really messed up that one and had to rip back again! I have decided that the particular ball of yarn is cursed, but I started the Go with the Flow socks from the same book last night because they looked easier. Hopefully, this will be the pattern to tame this unruly sock yarn.

I won't be at KOL again until Sept 18th because I will be in NB next week, seeing the Harlot the week after (hooray) and then going to sea for a few weeks where I won't even have internet! How will I ever survive?

A weekend tale

Here is a comic version of the drama that ensued this weekend when I introduced Fred to Henry...

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A Fitted Knit and mass confusion

This is the Two Tone Shrug from Fitted Knits done in Malabrigo. There's a pretty big difference between the dye jobs of these two skeins of yarn, and it's quite obvious where I switched. Other than that it turned out ok.






The mass confusion part refers to me changing the title of my blog. Why you ask? To make you lives difficult? Well yes, and because I have been thinking about it for a while and decided that while I sail only a few months of the year I am always a techie and felt like an imposter by calling myself a sailor. Maybe I am over thinking things here as I often tend to do.

The finally finished BBB

I finally finished the boring baby blanket from the Yarn Harlot and by the end of it I was starting understand why she named it so! I used three skeins of butterfly super 10 cotton on size 6 needles. It came out almost sqaure, but it could have used a few extra rows I think.



And here it is in the baby's crib...



And finally, back by popular demand....
......Winston!!

Ontario Trip: The travelling duck strikes again

The travelling duck has been MIA for quite a while now, but has recently resurfaced to take a trip to Ontario with me. For those of you who don't know, the travelling duck went to Europe with my friend and has accompanied me at sea a few times. The first day/night of our trip was spend at an old friend's place right downtown Ottawa. Here the travelling duck is enjoying the view of a little courtyard in the byward market area.



The relaxation didn't last too long before the travelling duck had to the face the Monty Python killer rabit slipper!!! He keeps his cool throughout the attack until the rabit finally gives up after remembering the number that the last rubber toy did on his digestive tract. The killer bunny slippers were a birthday gift from my friend.



The next thrill came when the duck faced the meanest beast of all...Winston! What a challenge!



And here is my DQ birthday cake. Yummy.

Happy Birthday to me

I'm two dozen years old today

I'm in Ontario celebrating with my sister, baby to be, and a lazy dog.