craft like a pirate

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In honor of tomorrow's Talk Like A Pirate Day,
I spent a lot of time this weekend compiling this post for my craft blog:

Craft Like A Pirate, or The Skulls and Stripes Forever

It's primarily, but not exclusively, knitting patterns: the skull-and-crossbones thing seems to have taken hold most widely in the knitting world. I had hoped there would be more crochet and bead patterns. There are a few patterns I left off, because they weren't really piratey and I wanted to have something left for Halloween. There are eyepatches, felted hats, a gazillion things with skull or jolly roger motifs, ships made with milk cartons or from model kits, baking pans, beads, several squid-related items, and a skeleton fish. Almost all are free patterns, and there are 30+ links. (Some are older, but I think it's fun to have them all in one place.)

I worked my butt off on this, so please post the link far and wide if you like it.

(crossposted to my LJ)