In Which the Pirate Gets Back To It.

Whooooboy, February really threw me for a loop – a phrase which, now that I’ve typed it, looks as if it’s just a wrong way to assemble a group of words. What does that even mean? In this case, it means that the whole month went wrong. :/ I missed a few days of work to take care of family business and another for a snow day, and spent the rest of the (short) month working late to make up the hours. Now we’re into a new month and a new pay period, so I get to have afternoons and evenings again!

I did manage to finish knitting my new red and white hat. I put a lining in, but I’m afraid that I didn’t make it tall enough. Unlike the other colourwork hats I’ve done, this lining was meant to have a full inner hat for extra-extra warmth. Blocking probably won’t be enough; I know I’m going to have to rip back and add more length… which is why the hat has just been sitting in my bag, ignored, for the past two weeks.

The lining colour is pretty excellent, though.

Michael and I got the chance to visit my grandma for her birthday, which was a real treat for everyone. She still wears my first real knitting project! It’s a basketweave scarf that I made for her birthday in 2005. The thing I remember most about it was how much trouble I had just counting to four, over and over again. I’m just a little better about reading my knitting now. For years, my only picture of the scarf was an in-progress scan, because I didn’t have a camera when I made it. Now that I do, I was able to get a proper picture of it. Since it’s Red Heart, it looks exactly the same as the day it came off the needles.

I’ll make a separate post about my adventures with the knitting machine. I’ve been working on a new couch-blanket, but there’s enough to write about that it deserves a post of its own.