Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Knitting on Mar 18th, 2010
When the postman delivered our mail held during last week’s trip, there was a package that I should have remembered to photograph for you. But since I knew what was inside, I wasted no time ripping it open. Besides, you know what it looked like anyway: a soft and squishy priority mail envelope, sealed with [...]
What do you do when you’re away from home, staying in a dreary residential hotel and you need to entertain a group? For various reasons you don’t want to meet at a restaurant and the kitchen isn’t really intended for cooking. Here’s all you need for a quick, low-stress get-together. First, find a good supermarket [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 6th, 2010
Now that sunlight has returned to Middle Earth* I’ve been able to get a decent shot of Finished Object (FO) #2. (Note the Japanese maple has made real progress since I last photographed it. It even has tiny little flowers.) For years I’ve been setting aside a small bin containing yarns that were too special [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 1st, 2010
My head is full of projects these days. I’ve finished a couple things that have been sitting around for months (and years) so I’m “allowed” to start something new. I’ve been looking through patterns and pulling yarn out of stash, making swatches for this and that. I’d show you a picture of my knitting area [...]
Posted in Knitting, Life, woodworking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Mother Nature stomped all over our traces of spring this weekend, leaving behind five inches of snow and ice. I started the morning shoveling snow, not for the first time this winter. Dare I hope it will be the last? Not. I went to a woodworking show with Jack this weekend. Small by comparison to [...]
The invasion of zombies has been vanquished with the aid of sunflowers, peashooters and puff-’shrooms. I swear I thought Wordtwist was a time suck, this is so much worse. An hour gets lost in a flash. I’ve mastered all the levels I can in the online and trial versions and have pinky-sworn that I’m not [...]
This was yesterday morning around 8 am looking north from our deck. I should be able to see the small pond and other homes where that indistinct patch of white is. Instead it’s pretty much fog and mist, mist and fog. Since socked-in fog doesn’t happen all that often here I’m not tired of it [...]
Posted in Knitting on Jan 16th, 2010
Go wish our Cookie a happy 40th! A few of her friends are helping her celebrate by posting this loving tribute of what we think she looks like since she won’t post a pic…. Somehow I didn’t expect the red top knot.
Posted in Knitting on Dec 28th, 2009
Most likely the last FO for 2009. These are Carrie’s Christmas socks using my basic pattern. These might be orange socks or they might be pink, but they’re definitely poke-your-eye-out bright. Here are the deets. Yarn: Regia Flusi (Susi das Sockenmonster) Color 01801, Lot 43449. 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon. There’s a little children’s book [...]
Posted in Knitting on Dec 8th, 2009
Every year our little Knitting in the Neighborhood group abandons its straight-back chairs at Borders to sit our tushes down for an evening of drinks, food and laughter at our holiday party. Frankie and Pam Frankie pulls it all together and as always did a marvelous job finding a restaurant that could handle a bunch [...]
