This week in my kitchen: :: I experimented with adding radish leaves to the spinach I was stir-frying. We didn’t taste anything different, so I guess that’s good. :: there was even more stir-frying later that week. It’s my favorite way to cook. I love gathering ingredients, cutting and changing plans half-way because I find…
Category: life lately
Last week in pictures
Bbq for eight! All three girls, our son-in-law, and my parents stayed for dinner. I love it when that happens. And it’s even better when the weather is good enough for a bbq. The floor is in, wiring done. Next: ceilings. It will be a finished room in a few weeks. Oh, my! This took…
52 hats :: 31 – spiraling up
This one was really fun to make! I’m sure there is a more sophisticated way of making spiralling hats, but I usually just cast on one stitch less than I need for a rib (this one is k4 p4, I cast on 71 stitches on a 5 mm needle) and just keep going round and…
Dreaming
I’m tired, probably getting sick (again) and it’s (too) hot outside and inside. I have to finish bookkeeping and taxes for my husband’s businesses. I actually have been working on that almost all day already and there are still some things on my list that I have to check off and then I have to…
In my garden
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
52 hats :: 30 – pointy hat (finally caught up!)
I’ve loved this type of hats since I first saw them online years ago. Elf hats, leprechaun hats, gnome hats, pointy hats. Love them all. I could have downloaded a pattern to make it easy on myself, but hey, where’s the fun in that? So I just went ahead and tried to get a pointy…
52 hats :: 29 – ribbed
So I actually think this is the best design I came up with so far. It’s interesting to look at and fun to knit, though not too hard. I think I’m going to make it again and write a pattern for it. Would you like to knit this one?
52 hats :: 28 – slouchy again
So, after running out of yarn on the previous hat, I thought I might be able to finish all this blue yarn in a good slouchy one. But I had to decide to cast off before I reached the end of my yarn. I do think this is slouchy enough…
52 hats :: 27 – for bigger heads
This hat looked much better on my head (the model has a rather small head). I wanted it to be a really slouchy hat, but I ran out of yarn. It is big enough to stuff my hair in though. Even though the colors are a bit much for me, this is one of those…
52 hats :: 26 – deep purple
Sometimes yarn doesn’t need a fancy pattern. Like this one. I love the color and it’s incredibly soft. So wonderful to work with and comfortable to wear. Too bad there wasn’t enough of this (thrift shop find) to make a sweater. But I do have enough to make another hat. I’m actually looking forward to…