It seems that switching to the yarn that he will be using for the mittens did the trick. He's doing a few purl rows now and then I'll have him do a few rows of stockinette stitch so we can see his gauge before he'll try the ribbing.My Knitting
I tried to get away with the largest dpns I had to make but they weren't big enough. So I've been knitting it on circular needle which is going OK but a bit awkward. I've knit the first set of repeats and trying to decide whether I should undo it and add some more stitches. If it shrinks I won't get it on my head!
N's socks are finished. I think that my kitchener toe turned out quite well. Food
Yes Mrs. Worthington, she did burn the brownies. A and I have decided to try baking on the weekends that he is home. We're thinking of alternating cookies and cake/brownies/squares/loaves. I usually use, what I refer to as, Mrs. Worthington's Brownie recipe. She was my home ec teacher in high school and so that makes the recipe more than cough, cough, cough 30 years old. The only change I've made is to use cocoa powder instead of chocolate because I usually have cocoa powder. We kinda decided that we would try less sugar next time because they were rather sweet.Oh yeah. About burning the brownies. I turned the oven on and didn't look at what temperature. I put them in the oven when it was ready and still didn't look at the temperature. After half the cooking time had gone I wondered why they smelt like they were burning. Then I checked the temp. Way too high. I turned it down and left them in for a bit because I wanted to make sure that the eggs were done. They were rather gooey but we ate them anyway.
