Category: stash

A collection of 20 mini-skeins of yarn in multiple colours, heavy on the blues/greens/purples range, with a few pinks and one soft yellow.

stash

In Which the Pirate Acquires Mini-Skeins.

Mom’s knitting group is doing a skein swap, and I contributed a soft skein of merino singles that I’ve had in my stash forever. Perhaps we all go through that singles phase, I don’t know – but I do know that I didn’t really want this yarn anymore, and I’m happy for it to go to a new home. And “hooray,” I thought, “that’s...

Many skeins of fingering weight yarn, split into two sets. Each set is enough to knit a sweater. Both sets fade from darker to lighter. The first set goes from dark greens and blues and a few pops of oranges and yellows here and there, to a pale green. The second set runs from a dark purple to a lighter purple-pink with hints of orange to a lighter pink.

festivals / meta-knitting / stash

In Which the Pirate Buys a Lot of Yarn.

It’s been some years since I’ve gotten to go to a yarn festival. Mom and I were rained out of MD Sheep and Wool this year, and couldn’t get up to Rhinebeck in October, but this past weekend we went (along with friends Monica and Jen) to the smaller, less frantically crowded, Maryland Alpaca and Fleece festival. The night before we went, Mom and...

A ball of Lang Super Soxx yarn. It looks like it will stripe into a neon rainbow alternating with black.

meta-knitting / stash

In Which the Pirate Buys a Sock Yarn.

My team at work is planning an offsite event on the other side of the country, which I am anticipating with about the same amount of excitement as an impending root canal. It’s in February, which is an ideal time of year to be planning a cross-country flight. As a consolation prize, I went to the yarn shop and bought a ball of sock...

Two hand-wound balls of laceweight yarn in white and purple-gray. One strand of yarn is over a penny to give a sense of scale. The yarn is very fine.

machine knitting / stash / yarn

In Which the Pirate Reclaims Yarn.

Mom and I had planned to go to Maryland Sheep and Wool last weekend, but the sheer volume of rainfall was going to turn it into Muddyland Sheep and Wool instead – so we stayed home. It was a disappointment to miss the festival, but I think we made the right choice. Remember last April when I knit the Puppies wrap and I accidentally...

The CD case for Designaknit 9

meta-knitting / stash / tally

In Which the Pirate Tallies Up 2019.

Happy happy new year! As usual, this tally is more for myself than anything else, but you may find it interesting as well: PUBLISHED PATTERNS Hollis Hills Hat Sneaux Zone Hat Passing Days Hat INCOMING YARN: 7946 yards Yikes, I got a lot of yarn this year. It’s all on my Ravelry stash page, except for the ones I’ve already used up. I do...

A ball of "Zauberball Crazy" in greens and teals.

gifts / spinning / stash / yarn

In Which the Pirate is Gifted Yarn.

It’s rare that I go to a yarn shop and don’t sigh over a pile of Zauberball Crazy in all the colours, and now at last I have one of my very own! Friend Monica returned from a trip with this beauty as a souvenir for me: a ball of Zauberball in the “Tiefe Wasser” colourway, which coordinates perfectly with at least 75% of...

Two skeins of sock yarn in rosy-purple and blue-violet with a skein of purple, pink, and blue speckled yarn between them.

sock / stash

In Which the Pirate Ponders Speckles and Pooling.

I started the Wild Tide socks with the slip stitch pattern on the new Flexi-Flip needles, and I feel as if I’ve almost knit enough of the leg to form an opinion of them. Unfortunately, I’m not sure it’s a very good opinion… I’m used to knitting my socks with five DPNs, so figuring out how to hold two needles that were basically folding...

A red and teal blanket with a cabled edge is artfully arranged on a black leather couch.

blanket / machine knitting / stash

In Which the Pirate Finishes a Blanket and Acquires Yarn.

My test swatch came out of the laundry looking just as nice as when it went in, so I applied the cable border to the whole blanket, wove in the ends, and did a small celebratory dance before arranging it on the couch for a photoshoot. It’s squishy and warm and I couldn’t be happier with it! I used 8.5 of the eleven balls...

Side view of the Crossing Trails hat on a cork head

meta-knitting / stash / tally

In Which the Pirate Tallies up 2018.

As usual, more for myself than anything else, but you may find it interesting as well: PUBLISHED DESIGNS Just one, the Crossing Trails Hat – but it raised over $50 for cancer research! INCOMING YARN AND FIBRE Yarn: 1 skein Classic Elite Yuri from Laughing Sheep (Mom’s LYS) 1 skein Just DK from Shirsty Cat Designs at MD Alpaca and Fleece 2 balls Cascade...

A red, white, and blue washcloth.

crochet / stash / yarn

In Which the Pirate Cleans Up.

Michael has had this patriotic Sugar ‘n Cream cotton yarn sitting on his windowsill for… well, for a while. He’d thought he might learn how to crochet, but that didn’t really happen, so on Sunday while we were watching the football games I made a new washcloth, using my own Scrubbing Nubbles pattern (which is free on Ravelry, if you want to make a...