Posted in kitchen, spinning, tagged 28thirty, 3-ply, BFL, crown mountain farms, handspun, kitchen, roasted tomatoes, spinning, sweater on September 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday started out well. I blogged, put some tomatoes in the oven to roast, put on a handknit sweater, did some reading, and went out to brunch.
While I did all of this, my head became rather congested, and by the time I got home after brunch, I was starting to feel achy. Blah. I decided [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged alpaca, knitting, pure and simple pullover, sweater, test knitting on August 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I am now seven inches into the body of my plain and simple pullover, a test-knit for veera over at 100% rain. I reach for this sweater whenever I need mindless knitting, and while I normally prefer my knitpicks harmony needles, I am really loving the slipperiness and the soft clicking sounds of these hot [...]
Posted in kitchen, spinning, tagged kitchen, spinning, stirfry, stripes, sweater, targhee on June 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
(The strawberries are just implied. I don’t have any pictures of them today, but don’t let that fool you; I’m on my 5th quart this week.)
Last night’s dinner — a stifry loosely based on a recipe in Heidi Swanson’s Supernatural Cooking. (I highly recommend flipping through it the next time you’re in a bookstore!) This [...]
Posted in CSA veggies, knitting, tagged CSA, farm, knitting, strawberries, stripes, sweater, yoke on June 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I wish I had taken a picture of my most recent quiche — it would be perfect for my cheesy blog post title. Stripes! is the first bottom-up, yoked sweater I’ve ever knitted, and thus I rarely type “yoke.” “Yolk,” however, is a word that gets a lot of play here at chez rooster. Aside [...]
Posted in CSA veggies, kitchen, knitting, tagged CSA, gratin, greens, kitchen, knitting, sleeve, stripes, sweater on June 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Radishes, crunchy salad turnips, red head lettuce, spinach, endive, chard, broccoli raab, arugula, basil, mint… life is pretty good. My trip to see my parents threw off my farm pick-up schedule, so yesterday I went and gathered about half the week’s offerings (in quantity) so that Tuesday I’ll be ready for more.
The (enormous) head of [...]
Posted in knitting, spinning, tagged AVFKW, corrugated ribbing, knitting, sleeve, socks, spinning, stripes, sweater, targhee on June 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This morning I began the second sleeve of stripes!(!) More significantly, the beginnings of cuff number 2 (with its lovely corrugated ribbing) sat in my bag waiting patiently as my graduate school career moved from one to two.
It’s strange, but I don’t actually feel as though I’ve finished anything, perhaps because I am already looking [...]
Posted in knitting, spinning, tagged cosy, cosymakes, cuffs, cvm, knitting, ribbing, spinning, stripes, sweater, wheel on June 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
And cuffs, and cosy (fiber etsy shop here), if that helps to emphasize that somehow the letter C is at play here today.
First, the ribbing. I know I have been going on and on about this sweater, and also that it is a bit unfair that I have been doing so, because you can’t exactly [...]
Posted in CSA veggies, kitchen, knitting, tagged arugula, boh, CSA, eco-wool, kale, kitchen, knitting, noro kureyon, spinach, stripes, sweater on June 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
These were my units of measure today.
Exhibit A (inches):
(I love this picture. Can’t exactly explain why.)
And here it is, all 17 inches and change of the body of my stripes! sweater. I don’t think I’ve ever knit so quickly in my life. Certainly, I am currently feeling the need to distract myself; to fill the [...]
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