2/3 of the tessellated fish blanket

IOW, work on one project to completion, then start another. The exception was, I’m allowed one project that is portable and easy enough that I can knit it while paying attention to something else. For the most part, I’ve been enormously successful in this endeavor.

For that one easy project, portable and all, I elected to start that tessellated fish blanket that I’ve been enamoured with for ages. The pattern is by April Broken and can be found on her blog Knitting Arrows. I’m titleing mine “under the sea” and am using sea colors and populating it with schools of goldfish! This blanket is being knit using fingering weight merino wool yarn. Finished size will be approx 44″x60″ comprised of a total of 330 fish! I’ve less than 60 fish left to knit, and have begun to sew together enough of the first two thirds of the blanket to have an idea of what it’ll look like.Colors on this photo are off. I’ll get a daylight picture when it’s finished.

Boating life picture of the day

We’ve been living afloat since May 2010, and left our home port of Holland, MI on June 19, 2010 to live the cruising lifestyle.  I carry with me an excess of yarn, an assortment of knitting needles including an Addi interchangeable set and a Hiya Hiya interchangeable set, a major needlepoint project and several minor ones, a Singer Featherweight sewing machine and assorted equipment and notions to sew with.

Here I intend to chronicle some of my projects and thoughts on projects, some of our exploits sailing, and some general tidbits about living a nomadic life living aboard svFar Niente. (for non-boaters, the sv stands for sailing vessel).  I also intend to make this blog look better as I learn the WordPress system of blogging. Blogger is too challenging to use given that most of my internet connectivity is via my Droid phone.

Right now I’ll leave you with a some images from an early morning in June on the ICW. That’s a barge loaded with wood chips going to a paper mill in North Carolina