365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Ship's Hawser And Telephone Poles
Day 90: I am six hats into a second dozen I'll be sending to the Joppa Flats Audubon Education Center, and I am grateful to the friends who have donated a variety of yarns for the project. That said, I don't ordinarily work with needles larger than size 5 and never with yarn heavier than worsted. My hands are small and I prefer to work with finer gauge materials. However, the last batch of yarn to come into my hands included a couple of skeins of bulky. I moved up to size 7 needles in one instance and to size 9 for the white/almond fleck shown here. I felt like I was knitting ship's hawser with a pair of telephone poles!
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"ship's hawser",
"telephone poles",
Joppa Flats hats,
knitting,
yarn
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