AWESOMEZ!

Sweet Tee from IK Spring ‘09  but with AWESOME pirate skullz instead of girly wet flowers.

Go knit one.  Go knit five!  I used the recommended yarn on the recommended needles, and didn’t change anything except for my Mighty Skullz and it’s perfect.  I was a bit worried when it came off the needles as the neck was very loose and floppy, but I gave it a wash and did I mention IT’S AWESOME?

There’s a knack to taking a decent photo of yourself (in your secret identity fake human suit) on a cloudy day in a mirror.  It’s not a knack I possess.

But look at my top!  Look at my skulls!  Join me in a rousing YO HO HO!

YO HO HO!

‘A Curved Shawl’.  It’s not a very imaginative name, is it?  It’s not even particularly descriptive.  It makes no mention of the pretty little circles that lure you in, or of how fricking hard it is to knit into a loop cast on in laceweight yarn, or how mind numbing the pattern is, or how long it will take you to wade through for such a tiny thing, or how you’ll order some yarn for a new pattern you spotted and want to make immediately so you force yourself to race through the sucktastic knitted on border just so you can wait for a week for your yarn to arrive because because first class signed for is translated by the sorting office to mean third class dumped on doorstep.

I hate this pattern.  And another thing.  VLT always makes me think of VPL.  The Victorians have a lot to answer for.

The pattern I was hankering after was that there Sweet Tee from the latest IK.  But not with silly girly flowers.  Oh no.  I’m putting in piratical skulls and then I’m going out on the rampage.

I have a special tip for this pattern.  It seems they sell the yarn in 50g balls in the US, but 100g balls over here.  At least I don’t need to worry about running out of yarn.  It’s deeeeeep purple, not pasty blue.  I’m not a pasty blue pirate.

I’m only up to the sleeves and I’ve taken a week off since then.  You see that brown background?  That’s my new sofa.  It’s huge and wonderful and a palace of comfort.  Of course, I had to clear off the old sofa so we could shift it out of the way.  The old sofa was broken and rabbit chewed and was covered in chocolate stains (Hence the new brown sofa.  A pre-stained, labour saving delight.) and piled up with all my knitting stuff.  It turns out it was also filled with most of my missing stitch markers and quite a lot of Coco Pops.

So everything went upstairs and I camped out on the floor to wait.  And it arrived and it was wonderful and I lounged and I snoozed and I read and I turned my hand to wooing Vaughn in Harvest Moon, that cowboy is hard work.  I might go for Denny instead, he’s crazy for fish, but I reckon he probably smells.  Pierre is pretty easy, but he eats too much and you just know that Vaughn has to be covered in rippling broody muscles, while Pierre will be a pale fleshy blob. Plus he’s got a Willy Wonka fashion thing going on and it’s a little disturbing.

Anyway.  When I went back to gather up my knitting, all the yarn was tangled and the balls were collapsed and, well, meh.  So I read a book instead.

I finally found a decent sub for Rowan Big Wool that’s a more appropriate sort of a yarn for a bathroom rug, so I made a start on the crocheted Round Floor Rug (another imaginative name there) from Essential Crochet from Cygnet Seriously Chunky.  It’s not glamourous but it’s not going to felt any time soon.

Please bear in mind the size of my mighty sofa.  The rug is bigger than it looks.  I should have included a monkey for scale.  I’m at the point now where I have to start paying attention to the pattern again, so I think I’ll have a look at untangling my Sweet Tee yarn instead.  It’s called structured procrastination and it’s the only way I get anything done.

Ooh.  I’ve just noticed that the purple yarn next to it is now the purple that it actually is.  So there you go.  That’s my pirate purple.

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And that’s my sofa.