Blog entries - January 2012

Fiddlehead Update #2

Shelley — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:14 +0100

This morning my fiddlehead mittens looked like this:

Ten minutes ago they looked like this:

If they dry by tomorrow morning (which is actual possible considering I rolled them in two different towels and the humidity is pretty low) I wil...

Just A Good Day

Shelley — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:20:44 +0100

Today has been a good day.

We've been treated to a day of warm temperatures and soft winds. Even though it was grey and snowing I found myself smiling and realized part way through the afternoon that it was because the warm temperatures were making it feel a bit like spring and that is just the best feeling you can get in the cold dark months. As I walked home I had to loos...

Meyer Lemon Pie

Shelley — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:48:22 +0100

If you'd come by our house for a cup of tea on Sunday I'd have offered you a piece of pie and if you didn't like marmalade you'd probably have said "no". Because it is Ohio lemon pie. I made it with Meyer lemons. And I didn't follow the instructions.

I was pretty excited when I found the Meyer lemons in the grocery store on Saturday. Lots of the recipes I see in magazine...

Today ...

Shelley — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:36:45 +0100

Today I love:

- kittens that sleep for longer than I'm expecting
- hot tea
- the way decreasing round of knitting get faster and faster
- a dish of wash tape and some blank 3x5 cards
- hanging out in the same room as Rob even though we're doing completely different things
- a sky full of dancing aurora
- a dog that lets me know when it's her be...

Fiddlehead Update #1

Shelley — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:23:23 +0100

I realized part way through this week that we are now more than halfway through the month and I am much less than half way through my fiddlehead mittens. I went to knitting on Monday night and discovered I hadn't worked on my mittens once since last week. I worked all the way through the purple section while I was there and took advantage of some sleeping kittens time to get i...

A Hoop Bag

Shelley — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:56 +0100

I haven't been overly productive lately. Between the cold, the darkness and trying to get back into work mode after the Christmas holiday I've been feeling kind of drained and correspondingly lazy. I gave myself some simple goals over the weekend to try and perk myself up a bit: put away five things from my sewing room floor, make a cake, do some simple crafting, …

The ...

Knitting Along with Tanis

Shelley — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:14:31 +0100

There is a Tanis Fiber Arts knit-a-long going on right now and I'm taking part. I'm in the Yellow Label group working with Tanis's lovely DK weight yarn and the project I picked was my fiddlehead mittens kit. I ordered my kit way back in August when I saw that Tanis was discontinuing them and was waiting for a good time to start working on it. The knit-a-long is especially gr...

Peppermint Bark

Shelley — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:29:40 +0100

The tree and decorations came down last night, much to Ollie and Fred's disappointment. The last remnants of our Christmas holiday are my unfinished December Daily, some stale cookies and the last pieces of peppermint bark in the fridge.

The peppermint bark was something new for me. I'm not sure I've ever eaten it before but I saw this blog post and recipe about it ...

Christmas Knitting 2011

Shelley — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:38:40 +0100

Wow! It's the third of January already! I feel like I should do some sort of "looking back, looking forward" post but for now I'm going to talk about this year's (last year's?) Christmas knitting.

I only had two projects this year but since both of them were for Rob I had to get creative about when and where I was knitting. Project number one was a new pair of socks. Just a simple 2x2 rib around 64 stitches. The yarn is Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Manly yes, but I like it too"....