Yarnstorm the Tenth: Plunder of Pirates

Posted by on Oct 17, 2010 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Shorn-a the Dead, Yarnstorms | 7 comments

Shiver me stitched timbers! Knit the City be findin’ themselves marooned at London’s Camden Crawl! What be there to do but yaaaaaaaaaarnstorm, we ask ye?

Here be pirates. Here be blasted bilge mice. Here be wenches. Here be hoards of scurvy pirate butterflies. Here be what too much moonshine can do fer yer.

The Bluestocking Stitcher’s Freddy Scurvy
Danglin’ in t’ wind

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Here be Freddy Scurvy. Freshly hung fer a life o’ crime on the high seas. He’d sell his toothless old grandma for a mug full o’ moonshine. I’d not buy her though. She smells like ole cabbage.

 

The Purple Purler’s Purple Pegleg Pete

 

Strung up

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Here be poor ole Purple Pegleg Pete. There be tales he was hung fer a crime o’ purple passion involving a peck of pickled pepper and a lass who sells sea shells on the sea shore.

 

Deadly Knitshade’s Crazy Cap’n Skelebones

 

Swingin’ on the gibbet

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Here be wot remains of Crazy Cap’n Skelebones. His immortal pirate soul be dancin’ the hornpipe with Davy Jones deep below the waves. He always were a fine dancer.

 

Bricked in

 

Turn yer face away, hooded passer-by!

 

The Fibre Flinger and Shorn-a the Dead’s Amy Rumhouses: before and after

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Avast! The true tale o’ Amy Rumhouse. Before and after she sold ‘er own leg and ‘er left eye for a bottle o’ grog. Tis shameful.

 

Beware Shorn-a the Dead’s sweet sirens

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Tis the Sugawenches! Full o’ siren song until yer realise they made off wit’ yer doubloons! Be wary o’ their woolly womanly charms.

 

The Bluestocking Stitcher’s scurvy pirate butterflies be asearchin’

 

Searchin’ the undergrowth

 

And at the water’s edge

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Beware the scurvy pirate butterflies. They ain’t as pretty as they look.

 

Deadly Knitshade’s Blasted Bilge Mice: Master Edam Dreg

 

That swashbucklin’ Rancid Red-Eye Monterey Jack

 

The black-hearted Captain Cheesebeard.

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Be keepin’ your guard fer the Blasted Bilge Mice! Their Captain, the black-hearted Cheesebeard is a squeakin’ terror o’ the waves! Never has a pirate been more feared than he. Why he once battled the Kraken bare-pawed with only a cocktail umbrella and a piece o’ dry bread and killed ‘im stone dead.

There were calamari fer dinner fer months.

 

Bilge mice on the port bow, sir!

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrn, me hearties!

 The Plunder of Pirates was yarnstormed outside Camden's Pirate Castle on May 2 2010 by Deadly Knitshade, Shorn-a the Dead, The Bluestocking Stitcher, The Purple Purler and our special guest The Fibre Flinger.

7 Comments

  1. Aromy 2010/10/18

    I heard the KTC interview on the BBC World Service. Loveee the pirates!

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  2. Wooly Momma 2010/11/03

    You guys are the best. I’m inspired.

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  3. Marie 2010/12/22

    I love these little creatures! Thanks for adding a bit of colour to the city.

    Did you guys do the Boris-Bike-Saddle knits too?
    http://blog.mariesmaking.com/2010/10/boris-bike-knit.html

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    • Deadly Knitshade 2010/12/22

      Thanks!

      The Boris Bikes wasn’t us. It was an East London eco craft group. Good on them. A fabulous bit of crafting. :)

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  4. shewolfinthevalley 2011/02/01

    I’m LOVING your knitty work! Some days I wonder why I left London – reading your blog turns today into one of those days.

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    • Deadly Knitshade 2011/02/01

      Thanks very much.

      We’ll keep London warm for you while you’re away. You’ll be back. :)

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