Category: pants

One pants leg, unseamed, lies at full length on a wooden coffee table. The stripes are an incredibly garish collection of 1970s colours: mustard yellow, brown, steel blue, and some jacquard-looking stripes as well.

In Which the Pirate Attempts to Knit Pants.

Seven years ago, I bought the world’s ugliest yarn (I love it though) intending to knit a pair of EZ’s “Nether Garments”, because what could be cozier than woolen long-johns? Except it never happened, possibly because every time I thought of starting the project, I thought about how long it would take… and put it off again. Then I got a knitting machine, and...

In Which the Pirate Plans Ahead.

Now that the mornings are dark and nippy, evenings are coming sooner and sooner, and some of my small summer projects are finished or nearly so, I’m starting to think about fall and winter projects! There’s so much I want to do… It would be nice if the rest of this blanket would crochet itself, but that’s not going to happen. I’m going to...

In Which the Pirate Plans Pants.

In Which the Pirate Plans Pants.

The polar vortex is one of the main topics of conversation lately. Even here in Virginia, for much of the past month we’ve been bundling up in hat and scarf and gloves, and school was canceled several times simply because it was too cold. Of course, the subject of “how to keep warm” comes up often, especially with folks who’ve never lived in northern...