Your lobster-flavored potato chip story reminds me of the RapSnacks that I see sometimes in my neighborhood. (http://www.rapsnacks.com/home.htm)

Keep it coming, Steph. (I can call you Steph, right?) Looks/sounds like you had (and are still having) a fabulous time.

If other people wonder about the sanity of a woman taking pictures of a sock in different locales, what would they think of the rest of us who wait with baited breath to see where the Dublin Bays turn up next!

oh my goodness!!! tell me the 'hint' is your purchase from Baadeck and I'll just die...

Do you get yarn with a specific project in mind (that you know the requirements for), or do you just have a general idea that a sweater of x type needs z yards of yarn and this might be nice for one of those? I worry that I'll not have enough of a yarn so unless I know what I'm using it for and how much it calls for I just can't bring myself to do 'speculative' yarn purchasing. Maybe if I ever get to be a proficient accomplished knitter like the great Harlot... but not now.

The ponchos are outstanding! Thanks so much for showing the beautiful parts of Canada. It sounds like a fun trip.

Ah, hair and holidays ... the night before we went on holiday this year my husband, Al, decided to cut his own hair ... free-hand & mirrorless ... at 1am ... after he'd been in the pub since 9.30pm. It was lovely. He really suited the skinhead he had to have done at the barbers the next morning to even it up ...and I SO enjoyed being on holiday with someone who looked like a card carrying member of the BNP ...

Those darn headlamps! I love mine (for knitting in the car at night, of course!) though you definitely have to watch how you take it off. Lift from the *back*!

I learned the hard way also... luckily I have short hair though.

That looks ouchy.

Must.Make.Poncho. Gahhhh as if I didnt have enough projects in the works!

I'm new to your blog and absolutely in love! You are hilarious! I haven't laughed this much in ages...the sock...the hair...hehehe...PEI! OH MY! I'm definitely going to be a regular here...lol.

Oh Harlot, I've come out of lurkdom to say that I know that flat piece of shoreline at Cavendish well. It is just there that you will often see silver foxes at dusk. They are the descendants of the foxes that financed some of the old mansions in Summerside and Charlottetown. I'm so homesick for the coast . . . and I was born and bred in Ontario.

Wow. An actual hair accident. Documented.

Can pictures of mere yarn top it? I will stay tuned.

And I can't believe you put one of those lobster chips in your mouth. You shoulda sniffed first . . . . Yes, inexplicable.

I was describing your blog to someone at my knitting group last night: "I have learned not to drink my hot cocoa in the morning while reading it, or I end up with chocolate coming out my nose."

Lobster chips. What a concept. Can I interest you in some Oobleck (think Dr. Seuss) Pie? Avocado/lime/honey cheesecake. Very Californian. Trade you coasts.

I am so enjoying your holiday stories and pictures. It makes me feel I have had a holiday too. Reading your blog is always a feel good part of my day.
Meg's poncho turned out awesome - no wonder she loved it. Kelly's was nice too.
take care,
liz :-)

Both ponchos are GREAT! And I have hair that got caught in every hairbrush I owned for the first 23 years of my life, so I am well familiar with the laughter through tears...

But what do you mean Joe had to explain? Are there people out there who aren't living vicariously through your socks? What sad, shameful lives they must lead...

Oooh, I LOVE all the iterations of the Harlot poncho! I just ordered my yarn.....It's going to be "raisin" Mission Falls for me.

I've been reading for about a month now and I have to say that I'm hooked. This has got to be one of the best internet navigational mistakes I've made. (Yes, I discovered your blog completely by accident.)

You inspire this newbie knitter! The saga of the Dublin Bay socks actually goaded me into tackle socks for the first time, albeit a simple pattern. So far, one sock down ...

And I understand the hair thing. Hairbrushes, headbands, helmets of all kinds... I gave up on hairbrushes years ago!

Thanks for sharing your adventures, follies and wisdom!

YEAY!, I've been waiting to see Megan's poncho. Very cool! And sorry about your hair.

Ohhh... PEI.... Green Gables.... I am so very very jealous.

As usual, I laughed 'til I cried. Then I got to the yarn pic, and I drooled. Can't wait 'til tomorrow!

Ah, yes....each post more hysterical than the last. Please keep them coming!

My Harlot speaks, and I must obey: before you abandoned us -- uh, I mean went on vacation with your family -- you told us to make a poncho using your Very Harlot Poncho pattern. I must obey! However, I'm making it for an 18" American Girl doll. I hope that counts!

More! More! We must have more.

It would take me a very long time to tire of your trip. I'm so envious I could burst. As a geology undergrad I spent a field season in Nova Scotia, PEI and Cape Breton Island, and I think of that area as God's country. It's just beautiful. So enjoy yourself and keep plastering us with pictures. The ponchos are beautiful, too. I love the colors in Meg's.

Harlot, have you ever heard of the book "Curly Girl"? Twelve step program for those who have been blessed with really big hair.

My girlfriend's hair has been gorgeous for the last two years since she got this book. She has lovely red ringlets now...

Love the knitting. Can't wait to make a poncho from your pattern!

I want to go to the Great White North even more now. Golly. The past two days have had me laughing until I cry, bringing my roommate in from the other room going "Jess? Did you run into the wall again?" Don't fear the big hair pictures, we'll still love you no matter how immense it is. :)

Steph- Any chance you'll post the changes you made to the Very Harlot Poncho which turned into Meg's Spicy Poncho? I love the horizontal eyelets....not sure if that's the *proper* description, but it is awesome!

See? Didn't I tell you, Harlotina? It's Curly Girl -- a conversion experience (but why do you redheads get all the great curls, huh?)

Now -- name, rank and fiber content on every skein in that photo. Slowly. Purring is allowed.

Beautiful ponchos,and girls !
Sock's having fun.
Poor,poor hair. I love your hair.Really.
Sexy yarn and roving.Did you buy all that ? And more ? Fab !

Steph, I was wondering if you have ever stuck a dpn in your hair and then lost it in there?

You had to climb a rope down a cliff to get to the water? You weren't staying in New Waterford by any chance, were you??
NO amount of detail from a trip to Baadeck Yarns is too much, I love that store.

My sister and brother love Utz crab chips. They don't taste "crabby" but rather like BBQ chips with Old Bay seasoning. I still can't bring myself to eat them. When my sister was stationed in Korea, she sent my kids "fun" snacks to try like Hello Kitty candy and shrimp flavored crackers. (The candy is gone, the crackers reside, unopened, in the pantry). When she went to Australia, we got Kangaroo jerky and kangaroo tail soup (unopened, for display purposes only). She is currently in Afghanistan and we've gotten arabic labeled Lays potato chips (those went to school in the lunch box for showing off in Social Studies and then were eaten). I just packed a box to send to her - Shrek skittles and homemade rice krispie treats. I wonder if I can find some crab chips??... Love your trip tales. I need to talk the family into a trip to the maritimes.

With unexplainable obsession, I've spend all day yesterday (from 5 am to just past midnight on and off) knitting a mint-green Harlet poncho in a fluffy bulky weight mystery yarn. It's looking fab and I suspect the moment the fringe is done, my soon-to-be 5 year old will be dancing and parading around in it. It's so super easy, I can see knitting umpteen more of them! That photo of the yarn started uncontrollable drooling. Lucky Harlot!

Your blog is bringing back some great memories for me. I'm from Miami originally and one summer my parents took us on a trip following almost your same route. I was twelve and I bought my first skeins of 100% wool on that trip, in Nova Scotia. I also remember seeing a dome tent sent rolling across the campground due to the wind while on PEI. I haven't thought of that trip in forever. Thanks so much.

I'm a new reader to your site. Guess what? It's blackberry friendly!!! Hurray!! You took the sock to Prince!! I had to go back to July 28th to see if it was the same day I saw Prince!! It was!! I was there. Without my knitting. I would have loved to have brought it. Until of course he started to play. That was the most amazing concert EVER!! Before that I would have said Cher 2002. He's the funkiest dude. I don't think you should give up on him. He's way too cool. Time to sign off and get to work on my poncho while the baby (okay toddler) naps. Beautiful pictures.

Your pictures made me so homesick for PEI. I've spent many an August evening knitting in a Cavendish cook shelter, enjoying the warmth of the wood stoves.

My sock went on an 11 night rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. It didn't get finished because I didn't take a headlamp, but it enjoyed the immense beauty and stillness of that awesome place. Then it spent a day being seriously overloaded by sensory stimuli in Las Vegas, and is now happy to be home in New Jersey. My only complaint about the Canyon was that there were no yarn shops. Of course, there were no shops... no noise... no airplanes, cars, other people.... It was heavenly. But next year in PEI for me. Thanks for the beautiful pictures.

I love your ponchos! And I love the scenery behind Kelly - I think the ocean is almost exactly the same color as her poncho! :-)

Lobster-flavored chips? Whoa. I didn't know they had a flavor beyond faintly fishy (I eat lobster for the butter). (And AlisonH -- Oobleck pie? Eeek!)

I had to laugh about the hair thing. My hair is nothing like yours, but it is so very much the sort of thing I can see doing to myself. *grin*

And this -- "a few elves short of an effective workshop" -- I'm stealing. I'm going to stash it in my collection of fun sayings like "Slicker 'n owl snot on a door knob." Thanks for being my enabler!

Aaack! My hair used to be huge like yours too, when it was waist-length. If I brushed it I looked like Janis Joplin, and sometimes when I put it in a bun with knitting needles or chopsticks they got stuck in there. So I cut it all SHORT and spike it with gel every damn day and even though I love my short haircut I wish I could grow it out again and just let it be huge. But as you probably know, the growing-out stages of curly hair can look pretty nasty.

Your ponchos are beautiful. They help me make the decision to take the blue cotton poncho I worked on in the car on vacation for a trip to the frog pond! Because it just doesn't compare.

Still rolling around laughing-Good God-you could make a DOG laugh! I am reminded of some rather nasty "Shrimp Flavour Crisps" from my last trip to England-they tasted like what would happen if you licked the underside of a lobster trap that had been out for awhile!(imagine it!)-And can I lie in your Baddeck yarns stash and roll around? Pretty please! Keep on writing-love to read your blog!

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