Nothing Nada Zip

I’ve been scrambling for the last few days with deadline looming. For some reason, I’m really far behind this month. It’s prolly all the energy focused on Rob’s race, etc. but identifying the cause doesn’t make me write any faster!
So I have nothing to say and no time to say it. In the meantime, hop [...]

And They’re Off!

I’ve been slammed with deadline, the boat show and Hubbo’s race and am just now able to find a minute to post the finished, modeled pic of his toque.

I love how it turned out, love the color, love the cables. LOVELOVELOVE it!

And I love how it looks on his handsome head! The true color is [...]

KnitPicks Options

I ordered my KnitPicks Options on April 9. I chose to go with the standard (free) shipping because I already had Hubbo’s watch cap on the dpns and didn’t think I needed them fast. They arrived on April 16 — a perfectly reasonable shipping time, in my mind — and I immediately sat down to [...]

Best Laid Plans

Hubbo’s racing in a singlehanded race next weekend that goes from San Fran to the Farallon Islands and back – it’s only about 30 miles offshore but it can get pretty bumpy and cold out thereout there. Luckily, he never ever gets seasick. Creep.
I wanted to knit up the — ah hem — emerald Malabrigo [...]

Nosy1 Parker

I’ve been totally remiss in not acknowledging that I have a totally cool Secret Pal. Nosy1 lives somewhere in the middle — where there’s no ‘real’ water (aka: the salty kind) — but somehow she knows about sailing. Hmmm…. She totally ‘gets’ that living on a boat means not having a lot of room to [...]

Three Things

ONE
Just looks at this:

I hate to bring this up, but we live in C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A. The long wet walk up to the showers this morning was reminiscent of life in the Pacific Northwest. Um, we moved for a reason. Hellooooo . . .
TWO
Miss Thang is D-O-N-E:

I don’t have all the ‘luxuries’ of life on [...]

Decisions, decisions

Someone on a knitting bulletin board posted a link to Drops, a Norwegian company that sells yarns and goodies AND has a buttload of free knitting patterns. Holy cow! I was pretty settled on knitting up my Malabrigo-esque wool

into Knitty’s Banff

when I found this

Unfortunately, the pattern is translated from Norwegian and is difficult to figure [...]

Miss Thang

She’s done. I did both armholes before getting the hang of making the trim. The neck hole looked fabulous while the armholes . . . well . . . didn’t. I frogged them both and now all weird ’stepiness’ is gone. All that’s left is to block her, snap a shot and send it off.
This [...]

Babe-a-licious

Ooooh, I’m all but done with Miss Mud Flap Girl! I was wondering about the ugly step-i-ness of the arm and neck holes when I finished reading the pattern and saw I needed to add a crab stitch around them.

Never having successfully wielded a crocet hook (unless you call making miles of ‘chain’ a success), [...]

No Knitting for YOU!

We hauled out Tess on Friday for a power-weekend in the boatyard. And that means: “No knitting for you!” (said in the tone of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld). Here’s the before of Tess patiently waiting her new paint job.

She was black with a red stripe and the paint job was seriously lacking, as was [...]