Coffee Ice Cream
While we did not partake in the traditional Thanksgiving feast, we did still devote some time to cooking and gluttony this weekend. One of these expressions of culinary frivolity was the making of coffee ice cream and home made chocolate sauce. Now alas, getting a really good photo of the ice cream in my dim dining room before the hot chocolate sauce caused too much meltage proved a challenge beyond my skills. So you'll have to suffer with a mediocre image of a mighty fine ice cream. Ice cream so fine I'm compelled to share the directions with you. I [...]
Shiny and New
The Boy, in support of my quest for world domination through wool, graciously spent much of his Thanksgiving day diligently updating the website. I helped (mostly by saying 'that thing, make it line up with that other thing, no the one over there. Now make it the color of that other thing over on that side. Hmm, maybe not, let me see it the original way again?) and played with felt. He was most gracious. I was doubtless irritating. I think everything should be pretty self explanatory. Most things are more or less where they were before the shuffle (I'm [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
I hope you're all having a lovely day. Our plans include procuring the traditional Thanksgiving pizza, playing lots of board games, petting kittens, and generally just chilling. Sometime over the weekend, The Boy will be doing some funky footwork to spiff up the blog (what, you say you're supposed to update this stuff more than once every three years, oops). I will be playing with this lovely wool felt I picked up and concocting some sort of festive holiday decoration (an odd urge, since we don't actually decorate for the holidays, but one I'm giving in to anyways). I'll report [...]
Thanksgiving Sale (yes, even the books)
I'm continuing my acts of consumer disobedience and declining to go anywhere near anything to do with black Friday. I'll be tucked up at home playing board games, making ice cream, and quite possibly knitting. I hope whatever you're doing, you like it as much as I like being home in my pjs. But it's become something of a tradition to do a Thanksgiving sale around here, and I like traditions, so I'm doing it again. From now through the end of the day on Monday, all my downloadable patterns are on sale. You can get 10% off 1 item, [...]
Revenge of the 80s
Do you remember the just slightly slouchy hat with the handspun yarn from the other day? Well, I had some yarn left when I was done with it. To be specific, I had a whole pile of the handspun (the goal of the exercise was to use all the handspun) and just a tiny (no, really, 30 grams tiny) bit of the main yarn. So, after cursing my inability to judge how much yarn a project will take when I first imagine it, I did the natural thing. I divided the main yarn exactly in half (I love my jeweler's [...]
Combo Pack
I've had some requests from people who want to be able to buy both physical books without having to checkout twice (or pay shipping twice!). After a bit of diligent typing and swearing, and some noble assistance from The Boy, now you can! On the pages for both Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet and Rabble Rousers, you'll notice a shiny new button down at the bottom. It will let you buy both books together. This saves everybody money on shipping (especially international folks) and saves me a bit of time packing and shipping things (which you don't likely care about, but makes [...]
Ornamental
Everything looks better on the beach. Rocks are shinier and more colorful when they're wet. Shells are too, and they don't have nearly the same risk of funny smells when they're still by the shore (that only develops after you've forgotten them in your trunk for a week). This shameless deception leads me to pocket no end of beach-y treasures. They're always less charming when I get them home. You'd think I'd know better by now, but I still fall prey to the shiny every single time. This most recent trip to Maine was no different. I came home with [...]
Closure
Oh, I almost forgot. While I've already detailed my yarny acquisitions from the Maine trip, I haven't yet shown you my nifty new buttons. I know they're not strictly knitting related, but they will almost certainly get used in some sort of knitterly pursuit, so I'm pretending they're fair game. Aren't they pretty? Now alas, I don't have a website where you can buy them directly. I got them at KnitWit yarn shop in Portland. They're pewter, they're handmade by some sort of super genius in the area, and they were all of $2.00 each. This is a shockingly low [...]
Suspicions
My longstanding love affair with Handmaiden's Casbah sock is well documented. I've knit four pairs of socks with the stuff (Slant, Graupel, Rampant, and the as of yet unnamed socks), which is just about unheard of. I can't think of any other yarn I've used for that many socks. It's on my list of favorite fat sock yarns, and it's one of those yarns I like enough that I just sort of buy it whenever I see a skein I love (meaning there's a fair bit in my stash). Which is why I was a little worried when I was [...]
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