Its that time of the month again (and no, not that time) – Daring Bakers posting day! This month’s challenge is Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting by Shuna Fish Lydon and was hosted by Dolores of Culinary Curiosity, Alex of Blondie and Brownie, Jenny of Fory into Food, and Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go. My cake [...]
Yesterday I decided that I needed some retail therapy (which I do surprisingly seldomly) and decided that it was high time that I make it over to The Yarn Tree over in Williamsburg Brooklyn as the first time I tried going they were closed and then I just never had time to go any time [...]
Noooo!!! I totally forgot to post on the 22nd for Nablopomo! I was doing so well and now, gone. That being said I’ll probably complete the rest of the month and I’m tempted to say that it’s still Saturday because I haven’t gone to bed.
In reality what happened is that I went to The Yarn [...]
So this won’t be at all exciting and for that I’m sorry.
I just got back from the city and while I wouldn’t say that it was at all fun, it was at least productive. I had a therapist appt on the upper east side which was kind of intense and then picked up a perscription.
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This is what I was up to this afternoon before Japanese. I spun up the 2 oz of the 50/50 merino silk blend from Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks that I bought at Rheinbeck. Sadly this picture doesn’t show it of that well, but the blues in this skein are amazing. They are so dark and rich. [...]
Look it grew! The mead scarf is about 11 inches now and wow was the light balance on my camera being nice to me when I was taking pictures of it about 10 mintues ago. I’m also really happy about the way the it’s showing off the colors of the yarn, I really like how [...]
I’ve had a few good mail days this week. Yesterday I got a Ravelry package (I bought a pack of stickers, a bag, and a T-Shirt that is too big) and today I got the batts that I bought from Fiber Monster last week (during my crazy shopping spree. I’m expecting two more packages). They [...]
So who would have thought I, the person who generally hates knitting scarfs and who yesterday complained about lace weight, would knit a scarf out of lace weight on size 1 needles? Well I really wanted to use the merino/tencel yarn that I spun from an Allspunup braid and while I had started this a [...]
They’re done!! Finally! After way too much school work and knitting three hats, my orange socks are finally done! As you can see they’re just plane stockinette stitch but they’re done and the colors are bright and fun. Having said that, I don’t want to knit socks with yarn this fine for a long time.
Earlier this year I did The Omnivore’s Hundred list and did fairly well – I had eaten over half of the things on the list and most of the things I hadn’t eaten I had never had a chance to try (and then there were a few things I never wanted to try). I found [...]
