New Blog Home

I moved my blog over to a new name and then I didn't like it after all! It was much harder to come up with a name that many others didn't already have. I'm hoping that I googled this well enough that no one else has it.

Food
I've finally done it after thinking about it for awhile. I seldom work on my food blog but I would like to. Part of the problem has been that I don't make foods that I can blog about. I'm hoping that this will change. This was today's dinner mashed potatoes and spinach slop (too much liquid) and frozen cod in a homemade dill sauce.

Knitting ('A')
I'm teaching 'A' to knit. It isn't as easy as I thought it would be! I would have preferred to teach him the continental style because that is what is knit here, but when I tried to do it myself it felt like I was forcing myself to do something the wrong way. I watched several videos but they didn't help. I could understand what to do but I think I'm too right-handed. 'A' is hoping to knit a pair of mitts for a Christmas present.

Knitting (S)
I never thought I'd do it but I bought some stash. I was a yarn/material store looking for knitting needles and material and saw some interesting coloured yarn. I don't even know if Novita makes Jussi anymore. I bought these needles too. They weren't in a package but wrapped as in the picture and it wasn't until I got home that I noticed that two of the needles were pointy and three were dull. So I had to go back the next day to check the other bundle of 5 to see if it was a mixed bunch too, and it was. I wanted the pointy ones.

It was during this second visit that I noticed these. I wouldn't have thought that there would yarn other than Novita in our town. Even though it was more expensive than what I'm used to spending, I wanted to try it. Now I just have to find a pattern to use.

Trust Your Instinct

I've been listening to Grandma's Sewing Cabinet podcast (hurry on over there if you want to listen to it because she's taking them away at the beginning of November) and in one of the episodes she said that you should trust your instincts. I should have when I was knitting the top of the hat. I knew that it didn't seem that by following the instructions I would end up with a smooth hat like the picture had, but I just went on, and ended up with this blob on the top. I'm going to undo it down some and try to figure out a new end to the pattern. I wonder if they had this bit pinned out of sight?

Lost But Found

'A' went to check out the lost and found for the bus that he had taken the day he lost his gloves and fortunately they were there. Now we have to think what to do about winter gloves. Do I make a bigger pair to fit on top of these or try knitting with two colours to make thicker ones? I don't know if I would enjoy knitting with two yarns because of the twisting.

I bought a different green for my design attempt. The other green is spoken for – a pair of socks for M's son. I haven't got very far on my hat. I was almost finished but then ripped it back to the lifeline before the decreases started so that I could add a bit more height. I think it will now be too long (but maybe it will shrink). I can't undo anymore of it.

Thanksgiving Meal

I'm thinking of combining a few of my blogs and moving it to a new home. It will be basically my craft blog but I think I'll add my food stuff too.

Here we have our Thanksgiving meal. I made twiced baked potatoes for the first time and we really liked them and I hope to make them again soon. I basically used a recipe like Ultimate Twice Baked Potatoes but I left out the bacon, salt and onions and halved everything but the number of potatoes. The potatoes took so long to bake and were still a bit hard in the middle but once I mashed them they seemed to be OK. I baked them in the morning with the 'Pumpkin' Pie and then made the filling, filled them and put them in the fridge to wait to be baked with the nut loaf. The nut loaf (top left corner) was a combination of recipes but I added some sage and it spoiled it. We aren't used to it and so was a bit too strong. The texture was good though. I'll try it again but without sage.

I didn't even bother to look for pumpkin this year. I made the pie using carrots and it was really good. I think it is the spices that make the taste!