Study Wrap in Shibui Baby Alpaca DK and Barbara Walker’s Dragon Skin

Dragon Skin
from Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns
This is a good non-curling stitch pattern.

I received a request from my DD for something to wrap up in while studying in bed.
OF COURSE, I want to support Studying.
Especially since I am paying for it.
Especially if it involves knitting.


She likes soft knits.
She likes this shade of green.
She asked for something like snake scales.

Shibui Baby Alpaca DK in color Wasabi
4 skeins from Knit Purl in Portland
knit on US6, finished size: 18″x62″

May 8, 2011 at 3:23 pm 1 comment

Season’s Greetings!


Pearl the Snowwoman from Knit Purl

December 25, 2010 at 2:27 pm Leave a comment

Falalalalalalalala

squeeeeeeeee!

December 11, 2010 at 3:21 pm 1 comment

and the next day

Hedgehog frittata (made with mushrooms not the mammal!)

October 24, 2010 at 4:24 pm Leave a comment

Mushroom Hunting

Spent the day mushroom hunting.

A sure sign that I was not having any luck, I started taking photos, mostly of the gazillions of mushrooms that I didn’t want.

Quick, took a picture of the sunshine, if I hadn’t looked in that direction at that moment, I might have missed it.

On down the road, tried a new spot and had better luck.

Boletes on the left, hedgehogs on the right,
and a truffle.

Don’t know what kind of truffle it is, not gonna eat it, but it was fun to find one.

on the inside
Love hedgehogs, they might be my favorite mushroom.

They taste great and they have these weird spikes on the bottom that make them very easy to identify (and inspired their name).

I’m not the only one who loves hedgehogs.

Oh right, “knitting” blog, I am swatching for Catherine Lowe Simple Couture 4.01 Hat and Cowl with CL IV alpaca silk yarn:

one big ball of yarn for both the hat & cowl
custom wound for my order!

October 23, 2010 at 11:31 pm 1 comment

Yakima!

We go to Yakima every year to pick and buy produce

tomatoes

made into sauce

tomatillos

roasted and made into verde

eggplants sliced and browned

added to tomato sauce, onions, beef, and spices and made into
khoresht-e bademjan (Persian eggplant stew)

two boxes of ripe peaches eaten and shared with friends and family and baked into several peach pies!

Knitting? Oh, right, knitting, I was knitting a sock in the car on long drives to and from Yakima

Blue Moon STR lightweight in Raven Clan colorway Rook-y
(darker, more black in real life)

September 24, 2010 at 11:44 am 3 comments

RESIST FAIL!

Blast that Portland with their “No Sales Tax”!

I was not planning to buy yarn.
Of course I wasn’t.
I wasn’t even planning to go to the yarn stores.
I ended up with some time to kill in Portland
and the next thing I knew,
I was looking at yarn on sale
and yarn that I had admired online
and No Sales Tax
and dh said “this is good color for socks”
and and and

I was shopping with knit1frog2 which is always dangerous, somehow it always seems like a good idea to ‘go ahead and get it’, even if she is only there by txt! (some of that stuff is hers!)

September 20, 2010 at 6:35 pm 1 comment

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