Category: brioche

A brioche knitting project in progress. On one side, it is ribbed in pink with green and blue in the background. On the other, it is green and blue ribs with pink in the background. The balls of yarn, showing the gradient from green to blue to purple to pink, are lined up on the table.

In Which the Pirate Works on a Blanket.

A friend announced that she was expecting, and my first thought was that I should knit a blanket – because even though I’d long sworn off any obligation to knit for babies, that was before I had a knitting machine, right? I could crank out a blanket so fast, I told myself. It’ll be like nothing, I said. No problem at all, I said....

Pirate modeling the Sizzle Pop Shawl

In Which the Pirate Finishes a Shawl.

I finished knitting and blocked the Sizzle Pop shawl – what a difference! That’s a 12″ ruler for scale in the before-and-after photos, and wow, look how much it grew! The shawl drapes beautifully now. It’s soft and squishy and relatively lightweight for its size, and I absolutely love it. I only made one small change to the pattern, and that was to knit...

Two repeats of the Sizzle Pop shawl in progress.

In Which the Pirate Starts a New Challenge.

I like to buy souvenir sock yarn when I travel, especially if I can find something from a local dyer. This year’s yarn, which I got at Wasatch & Wool – a nifty little shop in Park City – is Salta Fingering from Yarnaceous Fibers. The colourway is “My Dinosaur Ate Your Unicorn,” and it’s beautifully dyed in shades of a mountain sunset. I...

In Which the Pirate Joins a Challenge.

Over on Ravelry, the Remrants group is hosting a Colour Your Winter Craft-A-Long challenge – to finish a colourwork pattern before 31 March. Works-in-progress are acceptable entries, but I decided to start my year off with the challenge of designing a new hat in four shades of DK-weight yarn: brown, tan, red, and light blue. My first attempt at two-colour ribbing didn’t have a...