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Welcome to my knitting--no, fiber arts--no, artisan blog.
Other knitting blogs inspired me to start a knitting blog. But I also crochet, weave, and make jewelry, and I'm just learning
to make cheese. So I guess that makes this an artisan blog.
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
I'm not working enough
And here's the evidence:
Jo Sharp Silk Road DK Tweed in Celestine. Unfortunately, I'm working enough to keep me from knitting as much as I want. The
pediatrics book still isn't finished (which is not my fault) and I started a new one last week. Anyway, I think this
will be a v-neck sweater with interesting hems and a little collar.
However, first I need to finish the Hoover baby blanket because the baby is due next month. I can get back to that now because
I've finished the Autumn in New England socks:
These are in the wash now and tomorrow will be on their way to Kristel in Espoo, Finland. She was in the first Sockapalooza and never got her socks, but she didn't tell Alison at the time. When she signed up for
Sockapal2za, she told Alison she'd knit an extra pair for someone who didn't get theirs because she knew what it was like
to be left out. So when I volunteered to knit an extra pair, Alison asked me to make a pair for Kristel. Kristel says, "My
favourite colours are the natural ones: mossy green, and the reds,
oranges and browns of autumn leaves." So when I saw this handpainted yarn on eBay, I snagged the last hank. It's 100% wool,
so I used real sock yarn (Paton's in Spruce) in the heels and toes because the nylon content helps them wear better.
While I was taking the sock photo, our neighbor across the street asked me if I knit. His wife (whom I haven't met) knits
and blogs about it, so he had immediately recognized the scenario. Coincidentally, she's obsessed, too: Obsession du Jour. I think it's time I introduced myself.
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Monday, November 7, 2005
Time to Scream
We need a new artisanal activity. Last week I got an ice cream maker (Panasonic BH941P) and yesterday
I finally got a chance to try it out. I started with lemon sorbet, partly because most of the industrial lemon sorbet barely
tastes like lemon and partly because it seemed like a pretty easy thing to start with. The sorbet turned out well; it's really
lemony. It's what I keep hoping for when I buy lemon sorbet in the supermarket. So that was encouraging. Then late this morning,
after I'd e-mailed a bunch of chapters in the pediatrics book, I took a stab at real ice cream. The booklet says to start
with vanilla, so naturally I started with blackberry. That's not actually such a leap, because they suggest that you use fruit
preserves make fruit-flavored ice cream. I'll take a stab at using fresh fruit as the learning curve flattens out. Anyway,
that turned out pretty well, so before I left for jewelry class I started a batch of strawberry-rhubarb frozen yogurt. That
was ready when I got home, and it's pretty good, too. Here's the output so far:
That's the blackberry ice cream at the top, lemon sorbet on the bottom left, and strawberry-rhubarb frozen yogurt on the bottom
right. Tomorrow I'll nip into Trader Joe's and score some chocolate and try a batch of chocolate ice cream.
And I've been somewhat productive with the jewelry, but I'll save that for tomorrow night.
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Friday, November 4, 2005
Conrad Says I'm Working too Much
That's because yesterday I got an e-mail notice about a yarn sale and I deleted it without reading.
However, I have been getting a little knitting done on the Autumn in New England socks. One is finished and the other is nearly
done:
And look what came in the mail yesterday! UltraTracey (so called because for her, a 20-km run is a warm up and a 50-km run is a jog in the park) took pity on me and sent five
balls of red yarn for sock toes:
Now I just need some time to knit.
I've also been working on some jewelry, which I'll post about this weekend.
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