Tagged: Presto Chango 2

In Which the Pirate Finishes Two Sweaters.

In Which the Pirate Finishes Two Sweaters.

At this point, there isn’t much left to say about these sweaters, is there? When Dave and Sam announced that they were expecting twins, I knew that I’d be knitting matching sweaters for my niecelets. I didn’t expect the sweaters to put me off knitting for a few months, or that they’d make me swear off knitting for babies altogether. Don’t get me wrong,...

In Which the Pirate Isn’t Going to Make It.

In Which the Pirate Isn’t Going to Make It.

I spent a good deal of the weekend knitting on the Pink Sweater for Thing Two, and came to the sad conclusion that I’m not going to have it done by Friday. I finished the first sleeve, but not the narrow strip that makes up the front side of the sweater. The second sleeve and front would take tonight and tomorrow evenings. And then...

In Which the Pirate is a Tourist.

In Which the Pirate is a Tourist.

I worked on the pink sweater on the train, as I’d planned, although a hangnail in just the wrong place kept snagging on the yarn and causing painful trouble. Don’t you just hate that? Anyway, by the end of traveling, I’d gotten up to the part where the sweater is split for the neck opening. Not bad progress, but not great either. I will...

In Which the Pirate Did What She Said.

In Which the Pirate Did What She Said.

Remember how last week I said I was going to “shut myself in my room” and finish knitting the purple sweater? Well, I did! I knit and knit (and surfed the internet and chatted with friends) and was frantically working the last few rows when Pirate-Husband came home from his night class. I finished the bind-off just as he was coming through the door....

In Which the Pirate Gets Back To It.

In Which the Pirate Gets Back To It.

The first (the purple one) of the Presto Chango sweaters for my new twin niecelets is almost done; I’m about halfway through the second of the front panels, and I hope to carve out the time to finish it up this evening after work, a visit to the allergist, and exercise. Then I just have to hunt around for small cute buttons! This past...

In Which the Pirate Forces Herself to be Good.

In Which the Pirate Forces Herself to be Good.

I’ve been carrying the second Stripey Striped Sock with me almost wherever I go, but almost never working on it. However, I’m not allowing myself to cast on for any new socks until I finish this one. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Rien. I have ten stripes completed and 42 to go (if I count the heel as three stripes, which I am, even though...

In Which the Pirate Buys Yarn.

In Which the Pirate Buys Yarn.

My brother and sister-in-law found out last week that both of the impending twins are girls! I am so excited to have two more little niecelings on the way. (Only a tiny bit of that is because “nephewling” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.) Right now they’re being referred to as Thing One and Thing Two… yes, my brother is a Dr....