Blog entries - January 2010 http://www.inapeanutshell.com Sat, 30 May 2026 23:53:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/my-mums-patternshtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN6319.jpg" alt="DSCN6319.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I kind of like sorting through my patterns periodically. I tend to forget what I&#39;ve got. Going through everything reminds me of projects I&#39;d intended to make and lets me weed out things I know I&#39;ll never use. When I was going through my box on Friday I realized that I&#39;ve got a nice little collection of vintage patterns. Most of them are from my mum&#39;s sewing room, several... Shelley Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:19:28 +0100 Vintage Pattern http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/just-a-little-garter-stitchhtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN6251.jpg" alt="DSCN6251.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><p>The sum total of my knitting so far today: a few rows on a garter stitch dishcloth. More exciting is the book behind it. The Opinionated Knitter. I had lent it out and it came back to me today. It&#39;s funny how you miss some books so much even when you&#39;re not actually using them. There is something about Elizabeth Zimmerman that is inspiring just having her around.<br /><br />I spe... Shelley Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:34:12 +0100 Knitting Inspiration Books http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/2010-week-4html.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/week4_1.jpg" alt="week4_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I looked out my window at work just before lunch time and this is what I saw. I love the effect of a sunlit foreground against stormy clouds.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/week4_2.jpg" alt="week4_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Such a sunny day. It may not seem like it to some of you but this looks like spring to me (hardly any wind too!).<br /><br /><img s... Shelley Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:32:08 +0100 Life 365 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/french-granolahtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN6209.jpg" alt="DSCN6209.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />This is what we ate for breakfast this morning. Well, maybe I should call it brunch even though it&#39;s only granola; it was close to noon by the time we ate it. Besides, it has chocolate in it and that makes it fancy enough to be called brunch even if it&#39;s only granola. <br /><br />The recipe is French Granola from Orangette (scroll way down). I found it via Make Something just before... Shelley Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:14:52 +0100 Food http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/the-endpapershtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN6171.jpg" alt="DSCN6171.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Well, the mystery knitting from my last post was the second of my Endpaper Mitts, originally started in 2007. I was impressed with how quickly it was going after I took that picture. In only two sittings I was finished the colour-work and on to the top ribbing. Unfortunately that was the first time I decided to check the mitt I was knitting against the one I finished three years ago. Guess ... Shelley Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:01:56 +0100 Purple Mitts Knitting Endpaper Mitts http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/2010-week-3html.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/week3_1.jpg" alt="week3_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Shadows cast by a street lamp along my path after work. I love the absolute quiet of this picture. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/week3_2.jpg" alt="week3_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />The beginning of the end for our gingerbread houses. This recipe is so good - they&#39;re still spicy.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/week3_3.j... Shelley Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:01:13 +0100 Life 365 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/ishbel-in-the-snowhtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/ishbel_1.jpg" alt="ishbel_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Pattern: Ishbel from Whimsical Little Knits by Ysolda Teague <br />Yarn: Squoosh Alpaca Silk and Cashmere (Fingering)<br />Size: Small<br />Yardage: ~ 275 m (300 yards) or 3/4 of the skein<br />Needles: 4.00 mm bamboo circular<br /><br />---<br /><br />Here we have another case of procrastination - not of finishing but of posting - I finished this shawl in time to wear it to my staff Chris... Shelley Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:14:16 +0100 Shawl Knitting http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/snowflakeshtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/snowflake_socks_1.jpg" alt="snowflake_socks_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I started this sock ages ago but stalled out part way through October when I couldn&#39;t settle on a good colour work design ... and then I left my knitting around too close to floor level and Abby made a mess of it (fortunately my needles survived). The ball of grey wasn&#39;t too bad to untangle but the blue is so dark and difficult to see that I kept putting it off.<br... Shelley Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:35:34 +0100 Socks Knitting Grey Blue http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/2010-weeks-1-2html.html I thought this year I&#39;d post my daily pictures over here as well as on flickr. Just once a week. It will be a nice way to sum up each week and keep track of things at the same time. I didn&#39;t think of this until just now so I&#39;m posting week 1 and week 2 together and from here on I&#39;ll try to post every Sunday night.<br /><br />2010: Week 1<br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/pink_top.jpg" alt="pink_top.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />New Years Day. We we... Shelley Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:52:08 +0100 Life 365 http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/owls-and-the-small-foxhtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN6001_2.jpg" alt="DSCN6001_2.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I need to post these guys before I forget entirely (or it&#39;s summer and too late for posting Christmas things). I finally got all the eyes sewn onto my owls and hung them up in the living room just after Christmas (I&#39;m the type that leaves the tree up as long as possible - it&#39;s so cheery). There are all sorts of fabrics making up these owls - wools and blends, corduroys, even... Shelley Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:10:25 +0100 Zakka Swap Christmas http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/just-a-little-orange-pleasehtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN5909.jpg" alt="DSCN5909.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /><br />Have you seen these tiny oranges? (Regular mandarin orange included for scale - then I ate it.) They were at our grocery store this year. So cute. They came in a proper mandarin orange box too - but a quarter size one. They&#39;re so yummy and sweet. The sections are like jelly beans of orangy goodness.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/DSCN5918.jpg" alt="DS... Shelley Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:41:01 +0100 Food Christmas http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/slippers-for-robhtml.html <img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/Slippers.jpg" alt="Slippers.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" />I made Rob slippers for Christmas.<br /><br />Like most dogs Abby gets the occasional hankering for a pair of shoes and a couple of months ago Rob&#39;s slippers fell victim. I wanted to give him a new pair for Christmas and I wanted them to be proper shoe-like men&#39;s slippers. I used pattern 2 view a out of this book (ISBN: 978-4-277-43077-7). I measured the remains of Rob&#39;s old sli... Shelley Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:50:50 +0100 Slippers Sewing Japanese Craft Books http://www.inapeanutshell.com/archive/three-hundred-forty-sixhtml.html That&#39;s how many days in 2009 I managed to take at least one picture and post it to my flickr account. I am actually a little surprised that in a whole year I only missed 19 days.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.inapeanutshell.com/images/63/365_1.jpg" alt="365_1.jpg" hspace="4" vspace="4" /> The sun returning in February.<br /><br />The pictures I posted provide me with an interesting record of my year. Some represent things that were going on in our lives - vacations, work on the house, get-... Shelley Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:19:39 +0100 Photos Life